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Help with this Website
Membership and Logging In
Starting a Discussion
Replying to a Discussion
Customizing your Index Page
Publishing
Preferences
What is Structured Text?
Membership and Logging In
Much of this site can be viewed by anyone (anonymous), but to take part in
discussions and to get your own FREE home page and access special stuff you
need to become a member. It's FREE to become a member. Becoming a member is
simple, you just click on the Join link and fill out the simple form.
Once you join, you can log in to the site any time. From there you can for
example check out the Forum section or put your own content in your member area
(My Stuff).
You'll notice that almost everything on the site - downloads, links,
forum articles, news items, events - have a reply link (that is, once
you've joined and are logged in). Yes, you can reply to put your comment on
the item right in the website, for everyone to see your opinion! Of course,
for it to be seen by everyone it has to be Published.
Starting a Discussion
To start a Discussion you must be a member, you can join here
Click on My Stuff in the left hand menu bar
Select New
Select type Discussion, give a relevant ID, and hit Add
Give a meaningful Title, as this will be the subject of the Threaded Discussion
Click on Change and Edit, to create the Document and then proceed to fill in the body of your Document in the Edit Form, hitting Change when you are finished
If you want others to view and be able to reply to your Document, you must request for it to be Published, by clicking on the Submit button
Replying to a Discussion
Again you must be a member to reply to a Discussion
Select the Discussion you want to reply to by selecting the Discussions Area link in the left hand menu, or by searching for a Document using the Search tool
Simply select reply from the left hand menu, and proceed to fill in your reply
As you are replying to an already published article, your reply is immediate, and does not have to be Submitted for review
Customizing your Index Page
When you join up, an Index Page is automatically generated for you. This is a page which you can edit to display details about yourself that you wish other members to view.
Index pages of all listed members can be found in the Members section.
Click on My Stuff in the left hand menu bar
Click on the index_html link, which will open up the default index page generated for you
To make changes to the content, select Edit from the left hand menu bar
When you have finished editing, hit Change
If you want other members to be able to view your Index page, you must Submit it for Publication
If your Index Page has been published and you then decide to make changes to it, you must select Retract from the left hand menu bar, and can then proceed to Edit the Index as before. However you will need to Submit for publication again, once you have made the changes
Publishing
Whenever you reply, or whenever you add something New to your Member Area,
or add an article to the Forum, it needs to be Published. The team at
censml.org has the right to reject content that isn't appropriate to this site.
Once you Create something, Edit it (or Retract an already Published item so you
can Edit it), you need to Submit it (look for the link by your login name)
for Publishing. You can add a little note for the Reviewer of the site if you
desire. We try to review your content every day so it doesn't take too long to get
your stuff on the site. If it's rejected we'll send a little note back with
the rejection, otherwise we'll publish it. You can see all this with the
Status History link for that item.
Preferences
Also, please check out Preferences. Here you can select if you want to be a listed
member or unlisted.
If you select listed, your published documents will be viewable
to other members and you will also be visible in the members list
If you select unlisted, none of your content will be viewable to other members
and you will not show up in the members list
What is Structured Text?
You probably noticed that the EDIT form mentions two formats:
Structured-text and HTML. Structured-text is a simple format
that allows you to enter text in a specific, easy to use format.
The text is rendered in HTML automatically.
Structured Text is text that uses indentation and a few simple symbols to
perform text formatting.
You can try it with an article, then see the results by switching between
EDIT and VIEW modes using the links on the
left-side menu.
Basic Rules of Structured Text
- Separate paragraphs with blank lines (very important!)
- Indent paragraphs to create headings
- Use single or double asterisks (*) around words or phrases to create emphasis (italics and bold)
- Use - * or o to create bulleted lists
- Use a number followed by a space to create numbered lists
Examples
- Headings: To create a heading, write the text that you want followed by a blank line. Indent the first word of the next paragraph with one space.
- Italics and bold: to create italics like this surround a word or phrase with single asterisks. To create bold text like this, surround a word or phrase with double asterisks.
- Underlining: surround a word or phrase with _ (underscore) characters, like this .
- To make a list: leave a blank line after each list item, precede each one with - * or o. If you want a numbered list, use a number followed by a period and a space for each line.
- To add a link: surround the link name (the part you want people to see) in double quotes. Then add a colon followed by the http://www.somewhere.com and at least one blank.
like this: ptang.com
Note: If you leave a blank line at the end of your entry and the next line has one space on it then you might see the last line of
your input text made into a heading.
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