How to Post

Posts are the entries that display in reverse chronological order on the home page. In contrast to pages, posts usually have comment fields beneath them.

To write a post:

  1. Log in and go to your Dashboard by using the My Dashboard option on the Welcome Area in the right sidebarof the Home Page.
  2. Click the Posts tab on the left sidebar.
  3. Click the Add New Sub Tab.
  4. Type a Title for your post.
  5. If you wish to include one or more photos: (otherwise jump to step 14)
  6. Locate a section with Upload/Insert as its heading, below the Title Window. Click the first icon to open the Add an Image window and upload an Image.
  7. Click Browse and find the file on your local computer. Note that it is recommended that you make your filename “server friendly”. Make sure the filename has no spaces, apostrophes, slashes or other non-alphanumeric characters (such as $, % and &). Rename the file before uploading if it does. To preserve readability, some people replace spaces with the underline character. For instance, My File Name.txt becomes My_File_Name.txt.
  8. Select the file on your computer, just like you were navigating to and opening a file in a word-processing program, and click Upload. After some “crunching” the  image will show with some additional options.
  9. Under Title type a short, plain-language descriptive title for the picture.
  10. Under Description, type a slightly longer, more descriptive note about the contents of the file or image. Please identify the person or persons depicted and the name of the road,location and year, if available.
  11. Click the Thumbnail option.
  12. Without changing the other options, click the Insert Into Post button.
  13. You returned now to the posting area, where you can add other pictures to the same post, by returning to the step 5 above.
  14. You can comment any interesting information or story about the persons or places depicted, or your memories of life at that time.
  15. From the Categories list select the Family and Road as appropriate.; ensure to also select “Photo Gallery” if you want your picture(s) to be viewable in our online Photo Gallery, or “Writen Memories” to show your stories and rememberances on the Writen Memories Page
  16. Please do not modify the other selections below the post. If you dont find the right Category, dont worry; the Moderator will review your Post and will add it for you.
  17. When you are ready, click the Publish blue button.

You can read further information by clicking here to read about  Writing Posts or about Using Image and File Attachments.

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