Tip: You may want to open these instructions in a separate tab or print them by clicking the printer icon to the right of the title.

Step 1: Login

Login to the website with your Username and Password. (Website Usernames and Passwords are available from your site administrator)

If you have Author level access or above, a new menu item, Site, should appear in the main menu.  Click on Site>>Article Submission

Step 2: Write Your Article

Type the article's title in the Title Box.

Click in the content area below the formatting menus.  You should see a blinking cursor in the upper left corner.

Type your article in the content area.

Some Tips....

You may want to use the B button to occasionally highlight certain text as bold.  The Format box in the top row of the editor is useful.  For normal text it should be set to "Paragraph".    For headings you can experiment with "Heading 1", "Heading 2", "Heading 3"..... settings.  These supply heading formats that are already designed into the template.

For example:  

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5

Paragraph

In general, use the formatting tools sparingly or not at all.  Most importantly do not change colors and do not change fonts.  The website has a template that supplies a standard formatting for all pages.  The more we stick with the standard formatting, the more professional the site looks.

If you have pictures to add, click the image button located below the content area.  You must first upload an image to the appropriate folder (kids, stock, stuff are likely folders) and then insert the image in your table.  Contact the webmaster for help if needed or just send the images to the webmaster to add them.

The natural tendency is to generate content in Word or Excel and than cut and paste into the web editor.   Please don't.  These make a mess out of the formatting and cause a lot of editing rework for your webmaster.  If you are using material from a Word document, copy and paste it into Windows Notepad or Mac Text Editor.   Than copy and paste from that application into the Joomla editor.   This process will remove the excess formatting code that comes with Word.

Step 3: Fill in the Publishing Info (Optional)

Section: Select the appropriate Section

Category:  Select the appropriate Category

Author Alias: Enter your name as you'd like it to appear in the article byline.

Finish Publishing:  If you have a date when you want the article off the website, put it here.  Otherwise, delete the date in this box and leave it blank.

The rest......ignore.

Step 4: Save Your Article

Click the Save button to the right of the Title box.

Congratulations....you're done !

Your article will automatically be submitted to your site administrator for review and publishing.

Don't forget to check back in a day or so and review your article on the website.