Help

Hi, and welcome to SAD Wargamers new website. Firstly this help file is aimed at club members to enable them to post articles, pictures etc to the site without the aid of the webmaster.

This is a living document so expect it to change, here goes then:

  1. First off you need a login user name and password, please email me: andy@tradestands.co.uk for these – or catch me at the club.
  2. Now you need to click on the Login button top right of the screen on the menu bar and enter the details given
  3. You are now in the back end and have AUTHOR writes, this means you can: upload_files, publish_posts, edit_posts & read posts – there will now follow a number of mini tutorials for you to get posting!

Posting an article/message:

  1. Once you are logged in click on the menu entry: “Write” (simple eh!)
  2. Enter the Title of the the post
  3. Now in the main window box where it says “Post (above the visual and code tabs) – this is where you can enter you post text.
  4. Note you can enter text directly and there are a number of typically text layout tools available for you formatting (Bold, Italic, bullets etc)
  5. You can even Copy n paste from word, excel etc into this area (not recommend for pictures – use the upload facility described next as this will do wall the hard work of making thumbnails and rescaling the image to fit in the SAD Website correctly
  6. Next you will see a box below the main Post box labeled: “Tags” (separate multiple tags with commas: cats, pet food, dogs)” – it is Important you enter something here, if you are stuck look at the front page under Tags for inspiration. For example if you wanted to show off you latest Warhammer 40K army pictures then in the “Tags” box you could enter: WH4ok, Gallery - what this does is update the TAG cloud so if someone on the front page clicks on the TAG wH40K then it will immediately filter all messages to show only those with the Wh40k Tag
  7. Next step is to choose a category for your post, again for our example article then you would select both WH40k and Gallery Categories – again another option for filtering. If there is no appropriate category and you think there should be one – please email me and I will update categories for you.
  8. If you want to preview your post before publishing click on “Save and continue editing” – once saved you will see a preview link above the post post
  9. Once you are happy with the content and look and feel click on “publish” and your item is immediately available on the site and should be the first article – until someone else uploads a new one!

Adding Pictures to Posts

  1. At any time you are in the main posting window you will see an area below for Uploading, Browse or Gallery – this is where you can upload pictures to you article
  2. Very simply click on browse navigate to your picture on your hard disk and select it once happy you can then add a title and Description, when ready click on “upload”
  3. One uploaded you will be presented with a few options: “Show” and “Link To”
    1. Under Show, Thumbnail means a small image will be created of your picture, and once clicked on by visitors a larger version will automatically be displayed in quite a neat way:)
    2. For Full Size option – just that occurs the image in all its glory (and size) is seen in post
    3. Title just displays the Title you gave the picture
    4. Under “Link To” Select None if you use thumbnail or Full Size, select file or page for Title… it will become obvious – experiment a little you can always re edit your post or delete it if it all goes wrong!
  4. Alternatively you can Use the gallery section (probably best) – before writing your article use the Gallery Menu entry to upload your pictures to a New Gallery (you can zip them up and they will be auto unpacked ion teh server for you – do not exceed 8Mb zip (it says 10Mb but 8Mb is about it…)
  5. Once gallery uploaded return to your article (remember you can save as a draft version for future editing!) – then when you want to include pictures from your gallery into the article simply select gallery and choose image and “send to editor” you have same options as if you just uploaded article.
  6. Heres a Tip if you send a large image to the article that you have uploaded – simply select the image and click on this icon on the menu edit bar: untitled-2.jpg – you will be presented with some fields to fill in a pop up window – fear not it is very simple – in the WIDTH box enter 510 – in the border box enter 0 now click on update and your image will be scaled to the right size for our site. Note if you selected Link To in the upload process and choose file anyone who clicks on the scaled down image will be shown the full size image in all its glory :)
  7. All pictures uploaded to and linked to in a post (ie not gallery) will automatically have the fancy display option enabled. (you know the one that darkens the background and draws a nice display window for the image.

Formatting Tips

  1. Click on this Icon on the icon that as three multi coloured bars on it menu bar to reveal more formatting options
  2. Don’t forget you can copy and paste text into the post just as you normally do – so for windows users is Ctrl-C to copy selected text/images and Ctrl-V to paste them into document

What are Tags and why should I use them?

Tags are just that – something you attach to a posting – this gives it some sort of description of what its about

  1. What they used for? Well look on the front page and you will see a “Tag cloud” – The Tag cloud is the area on the right of the screen that has all the different size words
  2. So what you now ask – well essentially the bigger and bolder the Tag – then the more articles have been tagged by that Word/phrase – it does not represent anything else other than this!
  3. Ok so what again you ask – well let take a look – click on WHFB (thats one of the bigger Tags displayed) and it will automatically display only those posts related to that Tag – remember a post can appear in more than one Tag – pretty neat eh!
  4. So – Dont forget to Tag your posts!

Events Calendar – how do I?

  1. To enter an event in the Events Calendar please login to the admin area
  2. Click on the menu item DASHBOARD
  3. Click on the menu item EVENTS CALENDAR
  4. You can click on any event already entered, to update the entry, or click the “x” to remove (please be careful if removing entries – only remove your own!)
  5. Scroll down this page to teh ADD an Event form – fill in and update.
  6. Thats all folks

Well that’s about it for now – this should get most people started :)