Each committee, class, or organization at New Philadelphia has been encouraged to appoint one contributor who will post to this site through an editor. Here is how it goes:

1. Groups appoint a Contributor, and inform the Church Office.
2. An Editor will send the new contributor a user name, password, and email address at newphilly.org that will bounce to his or her regular email address. A contributor’s real email address will never be posted.
3. New contributors will meet with an editor to get a walk-through of the very simple visual editor shown below.
4. Contributors start preparing posts for your group according to the guidelines for the site. All post should be about something your group is doing, or call attention to a project you are sponsoring. Personal opinions should be avoided, and will not be posted.
5. Each post is submitted to an editor who checks it carefully before posting it to the site. This is exactly how big city newsrooms now function.
6. Contributors remain in place until they are replaced by the group that appointed them, usually about once each year.

When you log-in to Write a Post you will see the following editor. We have cropped out the top and botton to make it easy to see. Click for a larger view.

Contributing a post to this site is really easy. Here are a few simple rules to follow when writing posts using the Interface like this one.

• Enter your title in the title area. It is automatically made bold and the type size is increased over normal text.
• Enter your text in the post area. The post area is bigger than shown here, and it will scroll with the amount of text that you enter. Of course, ordinarily, you will keep your posts short. You can cut and paste your posts from your editor or word processor. You will loose formatting, but that is o.k., you can add it in the on-line editor.
• Make sure to leave white space between each paragraph
• use bold and italics sparingly. The easiest way to apply either is simply to highlight the word or phrase you wish to highlight and hit the “b” button or “i” button. Do not use any other html mark-up.
• If you wish to quote something use the “b-quote” button. Simply highlight the text you wish to indent and quote and hit the “b-quote” button once. Use this sparingly also. Unless you are actually quoting someone or something. The Warning in Section III uses the “b-quote” command.
• You may wish to use an “un-ordered list” like this one that uses bullets but no numbers, or an “ordered list” that uses numbers like the one in Section I
• Start an “ordered list” by using the “ol” button and “un-ordered list” by using the “ul” button. Note that the buttons now change to “/ol” or “/ul” to remind you to end your list, but don’t do it yet. You still need to enter list items.
• Begin a list item by hitting the “li” button. Enter the item, a word, several words, a sentence or a paragraph. Note the li button now changes to “/li” to remind you to end your list item. Alternately, you may highlight the text and hit the “li” button only once.
• Enter as many items as you need, then close the list by hitting the “/ol” button or “/ul” button, which ever is appropriate. You must close all list items with the “/li” button, then the list itself using the “/ul” button or the “/ol” button. If you do not close your list, your post may not show up!
• Finish your submission by looking down the page under “Categories.” Always check the name of your organization, Ex: “Band.” The person who edits & approves your post may select additional categories if your post has wider relevance.
• Some posts contain images. For the present, contributors cannot post images, but can include a link to an image gallery at a free image hosting site like Facebook.Com* in their posts. Here is how to do it:
1. First load your pictures to your gallery at facebook.com or some other site.
2. Determine the URL (web address) of your gallery. Use your mouse to highlight and copy the address.
3. Enter the URL into your post by using the “link” button. Simply highlight the text you wish to be the link and click the “link” button. When the little box pops up, paste the link to your gallery at facebook.com that you have already copied into the data entry area and then push the “OK” button. Try it. You can’t break anything. If you aren’t doing it right, an editor will contact you with help.
4. If your post is longer than about 100 words, it is best to use the “more” command. Simply hit the “more” button at the end of an introductory sentence or paragraph. If you don’t make use of this command, an editor probably will.
5. You can ignore the other commands for the time being.

Warning: This site is written in a web programing language called xhtml. It is a more compact language than html but follows its few simple rules without exception. Incorrect posts may not show up at all, or, be turned into gobblede-gook by the automatic xhtml code correction facility built into this site. An editor will always check contributors’ posts against relevant guidelines, but it will make the process go smoother if contributors follow the simple rules set forth in Section II .

Happy Contributing!

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