Submitting An Article
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- Published on Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:02
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Submitting an article to a Joomla Website
First of all, you will have to be logged in to the site. On the home page, there is a log in form where you will input your user name and password. Click on Submit an Article: Only Editors and the Administrators will ever see the submit an article. Registered users are welcome to post in the forum
When you do a dialog box with several fields will open:
The first field is asking for a title for your document. This would be the same as a subject you would be using in an email. Titles are a very important part of your document. They should be discriptive enough that a reader will be encouraged to click on the article to read it. It must include one or more keywords that tell the reader what the article is about
The second field is titled alias. Normally this would be your first name or a nick name that others would know you by. This field is optional.
Next are two buttons one is save the other cancel. When your article is completed, you will come back to these buttons to either save or cancel. Using the control plus the home key will take you back to the top of the page without having to scroll.
The next field is the text field. In most cases, you will be able to cut and paste your text into the text box. This is the easiest way. If you are writing a short news flash, then typing directly into the field is OK too.
Under the text input box are 4 links
- Article, you will probably never use
- Image allows you to search your hard-drive to insert an image
- pagebreak to add a page break if your article is several pages long
- read more
The next section refers to publishing your article or document.
- The first field is a drop down list, choose the appropriate category for your article.
Author alias again is your name or nickname
State referes to the state of the article. There is a drop down box the default is published since that is what you are writing it for is to publish it. If by some chance the article is incomplete, you may want to keep it unpublished so you can come back to finish it
Start publishing has a calendar attached to it, if you don't enter a date it will publish as soon as you click save
Stop publishing again is a calendar if there is an end date example the convention may be announced beginning the first of the year, but has an end date the day after convention is over.
The access level is important:
- Public everyone visiting the site can read. This is information you want the world to know and see.
- Registered is just for members registered to the site. One would have to log in to see this information.
- Special is for registered members but only certain members like the board. We will be adding groups in the future as we find a need for them
Language the default is all and really doesn't require any attention
Meta Description – Copy and paste the first two or three sentences into this text box. It generally tells what the article is all about.
Keywords – these are word and or phrases that will help a person find the article through the search box. Maybe they are looking for the next meeting times. Write the word or phrase separated by a comma.
Be sure to go back to the top of the page and click save, your article will then be published.