Author guide

Authoring pages on this website

• Log in at the login page http://quakerscotland.org/user
• Navigate to the page you want to edit from the menu on the left.
• Click on the 'Edit' tab at the top of the page ('View' is the other tab).
• A simple text editor is provided. You can switch to edit the html if you know how.
• Write directly to the page, or paste from emails, etc.  It's best not to paste from Microsoft Word, all sorts of rubbish comes along with it, but you can try it if it's simple text. Don't try 'save as html' in Word either, that's awful too.
• You can bring only limited formatting with you, you may have to do it in web document. In particular, you can't simply paste in paragraph formatting, or tables etc from Word. 
• When you've finished, go right to the bottom of the page and click 'Submit'.  The edited page is immediately online. Don't forget to click Submit, or it won't be!  You can also Preview before putting the alterations online.  
• To add a hyperlink like this one, highlight the text or object you want to link to and click on the chain icon
  To an external link, paste it into the box and click Save. Include http://
  To link to another page on the website, paste in just the url of the page as it appears in the bar at the top of the page.  
  'Title' in the hyperlink pop-up box is what shows up in a yellow box when you hover your mouse over the link.  
  'Target' - 'Open in the same window' is what you usually want. 
• To upload documents (Minutes, etc), click on 'File attachments' below the box with the page content in. 'Browse' to find the document, click to upload it.  Change the name shown for the document to be a descriptive title, then click 'Submit' at the foot of the page. (Advanced users - 'List' is checked by default.  If you uncheck it, the name of the document won't appear on the page.  You can link to it from the text instead - use the url in tiny print below it to make a hyperlink as described above.) 
  Note: unless you actually want people to be able to edit files, it is a good idea to upload pdf versions of written documents.  That preserves formatting better and makes it a little more difficult for them to be altered. 
  Minutes of meetings - be sensitive to the content of documents you are posting, read through them to be sure they don't contain things that people might not want on the web.  Examples might include contact details, full names of children. 
• To add an image to your page: With the cursor where you want the image to go, click on the camera icon in the menu above the text.  It first needs to be uploaded and the pop-up box gives you the option to use an image already in the system, or to upload a new one.
  • Make sure it is small - ideally less than 50kb, as a jpg, gif, or png file.
  • You can move it and resize it once it's on the page.
  • Set alignment, padding etc on the image menu.
  • You can resize the image on the page.
  • To alter alignment or wrapping etc, click on the image and then on the camera icon again.
  • It can be a bit fiddly to get it right. Ask for help if necessary!

  Don't use copyrighted images without permission. Some people may be sensitive about photos of them. Check that parents are happy if photos are of children. 

• To add a new page, go to "Create content" at the top of the right hand menu.
  • Give it a name - shortish (it will be used in the menu bar to the left)
  • Select a 'parent' page - this must be one of the pages you are allowed to edit. This makes the page appear as a daughter of your original page (or grand-daughter, etc). 

Editing the Calendar: new item

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Editing the Calendar: modifying an existing item

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