Welcome! This item guides you on how to add and edit content on this site.
To contribute content you need to:
- Be registered as a user on the site with author permissions - the
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will set you up when you volunteer to undertake a contributor role - Login to the site using the Login/Logout link on the Home Menu (top left)
- Click on the appropriate Add content item in the Home menu (these menu items appear when you are logged in) - following the relevant simple FAQ guides written for site contributors.
To start it helps to understand the differences between articles and events:
- Articles - Articles are the basic unit of published content, and allow free-format or unstructured content on any topic to be added to the site. Articles can can contain images, links to external sites or to uploaded pdf or other files. A number of content categories have been defined to group similar articles together and have them display together on the website when a visitor clicks on the relevant menu item. If you want a new category or a new menu item talk to the
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . - Events - Any information that is associated with a time and date (such as a session or competitive event or learning workshop) is best considered and entered as an event. Events appear automatically in the event calendar and are readily listed in event date order. Event information is entered in a structured way to ensure that the minimum required time and date details (including repetitions if any) are captured to allow inclusion in event lists and calendars. Each event has a description field which is free-format and can contain images, links to external sites or to uploaded fliers etc. Events also have categories to allow similar events to be displayed together.
- Results - Most session and competitive event results are displayed automatically on the site as soon as the director scores the session, using an external web results display service. Exceptionally, some more complex results such as multi-session events with some score eliminations or regulations concerning substitutions may need to be placed on the site as articles.
It saves time and confusion to think ahead about how information is most efficiently maintained over time and with multiple contributors. For instance each relevant article or event could include information about the venue, about parking, about the availability of tea and coffee, and the cost of table money. However it would be easier to maintain consistently over time if individual articles or events rather included a link to a single article that covered such common information. This would make any updating, for example, for a change in table money or parking arrangements, a simple matter of editing the one article that covers this information - rather than having to update a large number of events and articles. It is always easier - both less work and less prone to error - to only specify information in one place.
We hope this FAQ item has assisted you. Please
