Composing An Article

So you want to post your very own article? There are a few basic things you probably should get a feel for first.

Text Formatting Notation

See the article (Not found) for details. To be brief though, formatting notation is a shorthand derived from old-style printer's marks that let you do thing like highlight words or make them bold or even, say for instance if you're writing biblical article you can quote what Jesus said in red letters.

Navigating between Articles

First Goes to the very first article in your list.

Previous Goes to the previous article in your list.

Next Goes to the next article in your list.

Last Goes the the last article in your list.

EDIT

This is where all the action happens — where you edit your article. For the most part the how your article looks is a combination of how you layout the text boxes here, what layout you select, i.e. (Not found) and how you use the formatting notation. See (Not found) .

HISTORY

For reference, a history of when the article was created, rejected, accepted, etc is kept here. Hopefully, this will be quite short. If you're having a lot of trouble conceptualizing what your actual underlying thesis is (or you're just very drunk — and keep hitting the post for approval button until the staff just gives up and posts your article) then this may be quite long.

COMMENTS

The comments tab takes you to the comments people have made on your article. This is the same as the comments that appear at the end of your article after it is published, only conviently placed for editing.

If there are any comments from the The Staff or The Editors about your article they will appear here as private messages.

PHOTOGRAPHS

The photographs tab opens a section that allows you to upload images to be used in your article. You may use JPG, GIF or PNG images. It is best if you use an image editor (such as Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, etc) to edit your images to the exact sizes you wish to use before you upload them. However the itself site will automatically attempt to resize and/or crop your images to fit (within limits) as long as it is not too large.

COLUMN & BYLINE

For columnists a few options are grouped here to give your article that "regular column" feeling.

DETAILS

A few technical details can be set here, perhaps most importantly the section where your article show up. But also if you're feeling a bit shy you can make the article completely anonymous or just make it not show your name in the listings (only on the article itself).

LAYOUT

Sets up the columns, the style, as described in (Not found) , and the Title as well as how it looks when POPULAR or FEATURED. (See What does it mean by FEATURED, POPULAR or LISTED? for more information.)

PREVIEW

The PREVIEW option displays a full page version of your article (similiar to "Printer Friendly" but without any member comments). Most of the time the view you have of the article when editing it will suffice, but occasionally when working with the placement of multiple columns of text or complex alignments you may need to do a preview to check your work. There will be no menu navigation present in this mode so you will have to use your web browsers back option to naviagate back to the editing page. (This full page mode also makes for a good place to print a draft to your printer.)