Community Building Welcome to the Downeaster Yachts Forum Forums

Post edited 3:28 pm –February 7,2012 by Scott Carle

For Chris,Sophi and anyone else interested. ( Chris and Sophi have been moved to Author status)

Just jump right in on working on content for the site. I will be offering the same deal to other members that are interested.:)

The front page populates from the posts feature. You can publish one and it will show up immediately or schedule it out for in the future. You can also save drafts and come back and work on them at your convenience before publishing them. I would search out stuff from members or stuff I wrote myself on projects,voyages or other topical stuff of interest and sometimes create up to 10 posts and schedule them to show up about every 4 to 6 days.  If there is already stuff scheduled and you add something,schedule it for about 4 to 6 days after the last scheduled post. If you create a page you can choose where it is placed by picking an existing page to place it under. IE under the info index there are major topics with subtopic pages and then actually pages with content such as the individual boat write-ups. or projects such as windows,holding tank,fuel tank etc.. that various people had done.

If you get content from someone else to put up you need to make sure they are ok with you posting it on our website. I generally don't do anything special other than email them and ask permission.  If they give it,I will copy the text and any photographs to my computer. I then copy the text to a new post or page and upload the pictures and insert them. You can link to pictures on other websites but I prefer to download and re-upload them to our site. If the linked image is removed or page names changed it will break the image on our site. Much better to have it all located locally.  Lately when uploading images I have taken I try and resize them down to a max of 1280 pixels by 1024 at the largest. This keeps the image file size down but still allows good quality if you blow up the image to look at it. My camera puts out 4000x3000 ish sized images that are 4 to 9 megs in size. It doesn't take many to really fill up the server as well as making it really slow for others to view pages with images that size embedded into them.

I always give credit for  who wrote the story and if I copied it from their website or blog I will at the bottom of the story put a link  back to their website or blog. If your writing and publishing a story of your own then please feel free to link back to your website or blog as well.

I would suggest that if anyone wanting to help has an issue with how to do certain things,that you email me or give me a call and maybe we can sit down on the phone when both of us have time to log into the website at the same time and I can walk you through any of the features you have questions about using. I think that would be the quickest and easiest way of doing that.  I know that sometimes trying to tell someone something in an email or forum post can still leave them confused if were not on the same starting place.

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