• Go to www.bridgenews.org. Click log in on right side of page. Don’t have an account, click join and sign up. Write to ebeckerman@wesleyan.edu to let me know so I can set your permissions appropriately.
• Once you have logged in successfully, and you have been endowed with the right permissions, there should be a green box around items which you can edit. Indeed, you need the right permissions to be reading this so you should be all set. After logging in, the other differences should be the navigation links on the left side of the page, new tabs across the top (including internal), and access to a plone setup link across the top.
• The green box gives you these options: contents (folder contents), view (web page view), edit, properties, sharing. There are also buttons for add new item and state. If adding an article, click add new item, then select news item. To add a calendar listing, you would add an event. To add a PDF file, you would add a file.
• Everything you add will have fields to fill in once you add the item. It's all pretty self-explanatory. For a news item, the description is really an introduction to the article, which will be presented in bold text at the top.
• When entering content, you have the option of using structured text, plain text, or HTML. I have adopted structured test, so we should try this for consistency. Some guides to structured text are available here: http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/structured-text-cheatsheet http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Articles/STX
• To create a link, you can use the structured text format, which is to put the link text in quotes, followed by a colon, followed by the URL, like so:

   "The Bridge":http://www.bridgenews.org
  

gives you The Bridge

Alternatively you can use html links, like so:

 <a href="http://www.bridgenews.org">World's Best Paper</a>

gives you World's Best Paper

• The format we are adopting is to put articles in an appropriate folder by date. You should go to the current issue's folder before adding an article.
• To edit any item that's already been created, just click edit. Always click save when you are done with your changes.
• To add a picture within the article put this wherever you would like the picture to show up:

   <table class="image">
   <caption align="bottom">caption text</caption>
   <tr><td><a href="filename"><img src="filename" height=”300”>
   </img></a></td></tr>
   </table>
  <hr>
  
   and customize size, alignment of caption 
   (left, right, top, bottom),
  
   Preferably, add the image to the Images folder,
   then link it from the article as                        
   <a href=”/images/filename”>
  

• When you are finished with the meat of an article, click properties at the top of the green box. The two important fields here are keywords and contributors. Select an existing keyword (or multiple keywords) or add your own that describes an umbrella topic. Name all relevant authors under contributors, as this will become part of the byline, and will be preceded by "Written by: "
• When the entry is completely finished and ready for primetime, change the state from "visible" to "publish"