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Sunday, 16 April 2006
- Written by Eliot Piltz
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 Learn how to submit new content (News and Knowledge) with images, links and more, as easily as posting a new topic to a forum. Now you have no excuse. 
First of all, to submit content you must be logged in. You can find the submission links in your control panel. Once you're there, this guide will help you.
The Interface works a lot like most Word processing software, with which you are most likely familiar. However since this is cyberspace, there are some added functions. If all you want to submit is plain text, then you can probably skip this article, and have your submission done in no time.
 Inserting Links: highlight the text to which you want to add a link (eg. "click here"), then click the 'Insert/edit link' button (shown at left). A popup window will open where you will type the URL (web address) for the link. You should type the full address (http://www.website.com/).
 Inserting Images: the first thing you need to do is host your images somewhere. You may use your Member Gallery for this if you like. Once your image is uploaded, copy the image address (URL), then go to the submission page and click the'Insert/edit image' button. A popup window will open, where you will paste the URL of your image. Use the Appearance Tab to format the picture if you like. Click 'Insert' when you are finished.
Be sure to scale and compress your images before uploading them. Do not rely on the scaling option built-in to the submission page. I recommend JPEG 60% quality. If you upload your images to your Member Gallery, simply view your image (in the gallery), right-click and choose 'Copy Image Address'.
 Please ignore the 'insert image' Button at the bottom of the text field and the Images Tab at the bottom of the page.
 Formatting: HTML is not allowed, so you will need to use the interface built-in to the submission page (buttons at the top of the text field). The buttons work the same as most word processing software. Basic bbCode and smilies (emoticons) work, too, if you prefer to format manually.
  Save/Apply: clicking either of these buttons will submit your content to be published. The only difference is 'Apply' is more like "Submit and Continue Editing", whereas Save means you will not have the option of editing it again until it's published. So be sure you are finished before you click 'Save'. The Apply button is useful to ensure your content is not lost while you are still working on it.
 Preview: unfortunately there is no Preview button to see exactly how your article will look once it's published, but the interface does a pretty good job of displaying it properly as it will appear.
 If you need help, click the help icon (on the submission page). There are tutorials for many of the formatting options. Any other questions, post your comments below.
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