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Introduction to Article Manager

Sections

Editing Sections

TITLE:
Not necessary, but recommended. Enter the section title here.

TEXT:
Type in the section's text here. I'm not sure if there is a limit to how much text you can put here, but if you hit it, you'll know. Above this entry box is a text formatting bar that you can use to add html formatting to your text. You'll at least need to use the "new line" button to create line breaks.

IMAGE:
If you already added an image to this section, it's displayed here. If you are authorized, you will be shown a box where you can either include:

- a URL of an image file, or
(eg: "http://mysite.com/images/article/blue_bouquet.jpg")

- a SmartTag to an image on the site.
The FileCabinet module maintains a library of pre-approved images to use as an alternative to making, optimizing and uploading custom images. Just "Clip" the image you want to be associated with this section. You will be given a SmartTag (eg: "[filecabinet:image:5]") that you can copy & paste into this box.

ALTERNATE TEXT (Short Image Description):
Enter a short description of the image that will display if a browser can't or won't show the image. If you used a SmartTag for the image name that already knows what the alternate text for this image is, just leave this blank.

LINK:
Putting a link URL in here will turn the image into a clickable link.

LINK (PHOTO) CAPTION:
Sometimes you might want some text to appear above or below the image (eq: Photo Credits). Enter that text here.

TEMPLATE:
Use the drop-down list to choose a display format for this Section. See "What are Templates?"

What are Templates?

Articles and Sections can have their own templates. This allows you to not have to remember the specific HMTL code that you used for a specific type of display. Also, if you want to make a change to how something looks across several sections or articles (like showing the author's name), you can do it by editing just one file!

Each template displays its contents in a different way -- with an image on the left, right, above the text, with a different-colored title, or even with all the text centered on the article! This is all controlled by templates that the administrator creates. All you have to do is select which display format you want to use for this section. If you want to read about creating or changing templates, see TEMPLATES.TXT.