How to add content to the TARS Website

1) To Login, you need to email the administrator to obtain a user name and password. You will receive an email with a link to the site for you to choose the password.

2) In your browser, access the TARS website and Login.  First, immediately set your personal preferences via the link at the top right corner of the page. Select Kupu as your content editor.  You can change your preferences at any time, but the built-in (Kupu) editor is the most convenient way to operate.  (Pasting in html from FrontPage, for example, does not work.)

3) In MyFolder, Add New Page by clicking on the Add new tab and selecting Page.  Name the page.  You can type directly your text into the editor, using the formatting buttons at the top of the editor page, or probably more conveniently, paste in rich text from your prepared document (in say Word) but saved as Rich Text (.rtf).  (in Word, select all, copy; browse back to the editor and paste your text in. 

4) To add pictures to the text, first create a separate image page for each picture:  In MyFolder, Add new, Image.  Type in image name.   Browse Image to the location of your image on your PC, and Save.

Next, go to your text page and edit.  Click where you want your image to be located, then click on the Insert Image button.  Select the image from My Recent Items or Current Folder, and click on the desired location (left, right or inline).  You can select a size (or resize it in the editor by clicking on the image and dragging the corners). Then OK.  The image will appear in the editor.  Save, and you're done!

5) To set up links into your text: in the editor, highlight the text ( eg www.myURL) and copy, then click on the Insert External Link button and paste in. Then OK, and Save.   The link can be checked by hovering the mouse over it.  For internal links, ie to another of your pages, click on Insert Internal Link button, select the page required, then OK and Save.

6) When you are happy, change the State tab to Published.  You will have to email the administrator (Geraint Lewis for this) to link your page into the rest of the TARS website, such as through the Regions page.

7) To modify an existing page, use State Retract rather than delete - the latter will lose your links.   Then you can edit the page, or paste in new copy as above.  Don't forget to change State to Publish.

8) To create a slideshow.  In MyFolder, create a file (not a page).   Add to the page the images required  by add new, image, browse, save, for each image.   When all have been added, actions, make slideshow.  To see the slideshow operating you need to logout!  Even then you may have to wait for a while for all of the images to appear.

More detailed information can be found in the Documentation of the Plone website:-

http://plone.org/documentation/manual/plone-2.5-user-manual