This shouldn’t really be too awkward, but just in case people are a little intimidated or unsure, here’s how to do it.

The Short Version:

1) Log in to the Jebsite using your forums ID and password.

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2) Click on the tab labelled “Write”.3) Start filling in the blanks.

4) Once you’re done, hit ‘Publish’.

Don’t worry if your post doesn’t appear; that just means that Gavan and I have not given you unmoderated posting ability yet. Once we’ve read it, we’ll authorise it.

The Long Version:

1) There are two ways of setting about typing your post. The first is to use a visual system. What you see is what you get. You use the buttons on the toolbar to create the effects that you want. So, to italicise text, you would highlight it and hit the

Once you do that, you’ll see that the text that you’re writing switches to italics itself, instead of being normal text but with computer code in front of it.

You can actually use the coding system, which is my preferred option. You still have buttons for italics, but applying it doesn’t change the appearance of the text in your draft box. Instead, it applies the computer code <em> (= emphasis) either side of the word to be italicised.

2) The “more” tag.

This is actually surprisingly important.

Imagine if everyone wrote lengthy posts. You’d have all sorts of trouble getting several on screen at once, such as on the front page of the jebsite, or when you’ve done a search and the matching posts are displayed for you to cycle through.

What you actually want is for a quick excerpt to appear followed by a message inviting the reader to click a link if they’d like to read the whole article. Putting in the “more” tag does this for you.

3) The “more options” button:

Normally, you would have only one row of clickable options for your post. Click on this and you’ll reveal more editing options for doing such things as underlining, changing font colours, and so forth.

4) Categories:

This is important for searching the archives. You select a name under which this post will lie. If you keep it blank, it will default to ‘uncategorised’. Nonetheless, it’s important that there not be too many categories, else you’ll overwhelm the searcher with choices and the list will be too lengthy.

The Jebsite is configured so that only posts marked under ‘News’ will feature on the front page.

Please also bear in mind that every post will be categorised under either ‘Esperanto’ or ‘English’. The choice will be determined by the language in which the post is written.

5) Tags:

These are rather like categories, except they aren’t permanently listed. Use tags to give a fuller definition of the content, since tags are picked up by search engines. They differ from categories in that they don’t remain as permanent options to navigate through into the future. For example, “Internacia Seminario 2007″ is a good fit for a tag but poor for a category, since the category stays as an option into the future whereas the tag is a one-off.

6) Ignore these. These are editorial things. The default settings are fine.

7) Uploading images that you have saved on your computer is easy. Just select the file that you want; this will automatically be uploaded to the server.