This page contains some practical guidelines for contributors

(don't bug Craig or Darryl about how to do stuff until you have read this carefully)
for the thinking behind these guidelines see content philosophy
Not everyone will have the privledges to do all the things listed here. find out more about your privledges here

The Basic for adding Content

• In your language bear in mind that your page will be read by visitors and dpc regulars. you represent our church family in all you write here!
• Unless you are correcting a simple error of fact, don't change someone else's page, if you have a question about it, or a problem with it, either make a comment, or email the author.
• Bear in mind that if you change the title of a post, you change the url for getting to it! Do this with caution. If your change the title of a page called "dy leaders" to "dy leadership" the url will change from www.drummoyne.org.au/dy-leaders to www.drummoyne.org.au/dy-leadership.  Also keep this in mind when you link to a page - if you are concerned the title of a page might change (and your link be a dud) you can link to the absolute address which will never change, it has ther form www.drummoyne.org.au//d69/node/nnn where nnn is the "node number" of the page, you can find this number on the recent posts page.You can view urls here.
• Adding pictures. Don't make them too big. A height of 200-300px is best.
• If you paste in stuff from a program like Microsoft Word you might find it looks ok in the editor but has some junk text when you actually view it. You can use the editor's HTML function (advanced users) to clean things up, or else paste in plain text instead.

Picture & Video

• ideally every post should have a picture. click here to find out more
• Don't let pictures be too big. 250px height is ideal. Should be visible in your editor window without scrolling left or right.
• all picture files uploaded should not contain spaces in the file name - it freaks out some browsers.
• to include video you need to post to YouTube, and using the HTML button embed the code from there. If you can't see a button called "HTML" near the "bold" italic" and "underline" buttons, then you don't have the privledge to include video.

Creating new pages and tagging pages

• to get your post included on the Front Page or in News use the news tags. Be judicious with the news tag. Place the plain text you want to appear in the bulletin and news page in the box labelled bulletin. If you leave the bulletin box blank, the website will try and use the main box text and will expect it to be plain text (no pictures or formatting).
• for a post to be easily found it must be tagged in one or more dpc menu tags. click here to find out more
• only restrict access to a post and grant editing rights if you really know what you are doing.
• Don't tag things to the "base" tags (Connect, Serve, Grow...) tag things further down.
• If there is nowhere logical to tag it, do you need to create a new menu item? Go to Admin | manage tags

Editing Menu Headings

• only a few people have the privledges required to edit the section or menu headings. so try to keep information that is likely to change out of these headings - keep it in the pages so that ministry teams can change that kind of stuff quickly & simply themselves as required.
• bear in mind that if you change the title of a section or menu page you will change how it appears in the drop down menu. Also, more significantly, you change the url used to link to it. See comment above on renaming pages.
• under Terrm Fields (down the bottom when you edit a menu header, there are some options: you can set a default for display of titles|preview|full page. Also, you can exclude a tag from appearing in the drop down menu...do this cautiously! It will still appear under the links on its parent (e.g. Under the "Website Team" section, the section "old tags (not used)" is excluded from the drop down menu, but still appears as a link if you go to the "Website Team" page.) Do not use this for hiding stuff from visitors, or regulars will have difficulty finding it. If there are particular posts that need to be hidden from the public there is another way of doing it (see elsewhere in these notes).

Restrict who can see and edit your post

• if you can see an "Access Control" button (at the top, beside the Edit button) you have the power to restrict access to pages. You can select which "roles" can VIEW the page, and which roles can CHANGE or DELETE it. Roles are things like "home group leaders" "jam leaders" "elders". Every registered user gets assigned one or more of these roles, you can see yours here.
  • View any content: select which roles can see the page. If you select anonymous user (on by default) everyone can see it and no other boxes need to be ticked. Your selection will only effect the one page.
  • Edit any content: and Delete any content: same idea.
  • Ignore the "View own content" "Edit own content" "Delete own content" boxes.
  • ** a tip - be careful not to accidently exclude yourself, or you won't be able to correct your mistake! **
• Please do not post confidential material - it doesn't belong on the web. Only use this feature to de-clutter what people see, not to publish sensitive material.