Editing Instructions

Editing Instructions

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This help page normally opens in a separate window from the editor. Therefore closing this window doesn't normally affect the contents being edited. This help page can be re-opened from the editor at any time.


To create a web page, click in the blank white area on the editor screen and start typing.

You can also copy and paste into the editor.

The golden rule is type first and set the format afterwards.

When you've finished, click on "Send page to manager" and it will automatically be sent to us.

Formatting

Choose a format by clicking somewhere in the text and then use the , or buttons. These format the current section as strong heading, weak heading or paragraph.

If the text appears green it means it hasn't been assigned a format yet. (The editor usually defaults to paragraph mode, but may not on your particular browser.)

The button deletes selected text, The , and buttons Italicize, bolden and underline selected text. The usual keyboard combinations (DEL, CTRL-I, CTRL-B and CTRL-U) work with most browsers too.

Buttons and indent and outdent the current block.

To justify left, center or right use the , or buttons

You can undo or redo editing steps using the and buttons

Images

To insert an image, type ### at the point where you want the image to appear, type the name of the image file in the "Address" box, then click the button. On the real page the ### will be replaced by the picture you specified. Don't forget to e-mail the actual image file to the website manager so he/she can add it to the website.

Links

To insert a link, type ### at the point where you want the link to appear, type the URL in the "Address" box, the text-to-be-clicked-on in the "Display" box, then click the button. (A URL is something like "http://www.mywebsite.com". "URL" means "Uniform Resource Locator" - that's Internet jargon.)

Style

Don't add extra blank lines between paragraphs, because the paragraph style already includes extra spacing between paragraphs. There are no extra blank lines between the paragraphs on this page.

Don't try to invent your own style for a heading (for instance by using bold). Just select one of the standard headings. That way we keep all pages in the same style, and when we update our style, your page will automatically update too.

For the Experts

The button displays the corresponding HTML code.

The button inserts literal HTML directly. It replaces ### by the contents of the Address box. The only permitted quote symbol in this HTML is single quote ('). So <span style='color:red'> would be OK but <span style="color:red"> wouldn't.

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