Adding Stories to the Sport in Wellington web site

Anyone who has been set up correctly on the web site can add stories to it.
In order to get set up in this way, you first need to register on the site.

Registering is pretty simple, find the "User Login" section on the bar on the left hand side, and below the boxes is a link called "Create new account". Click this link and you will be taken to a page to choose a username (the name you will login as, and the name that will appear next to stories you post), and enter your email address.
Once you've entered those 2, click the "Create new account" button.

You will then get an email sent to the address you entered with your username, and a password that it gives you.
Enter that Username and Password in the User login boxes on the left, and you can then change your password to something you can remember.
Click on the Edit tab in the middle, and enter a new password into the relevant boxes twice, and click the Submit button at the bottom.

You are now registered on the web site, and are able to add your own comments to the stories also added.

In order to post your own stories, contact either Adrian Lee, or Simon Rudd, and you can be given the correct acces to be able to do so.

Once you have that access, adding a story isn't very difficult.

In the menu on the left, you will see some new options, mainly the one which says "create content". Whenever you want to add a new story, you start by clicking on this link.
In the middle of the screen you will then get two options, you can either add a poll to the web site, or you can add a story. Click "Story" and you'll be taken to the next screen.

Here is where you enter the details of the story. The top parts can usually be left alone, as it enters that information automatically.
You my wish to change the date of the post (for example, I post the cricket club match reports a day or two after the matches, but change the story date to that of the match), in which case you are free to do so.

You then enter Title for the story, pretty straight forward, and in the body, enter the text for the story.
If you look at the stories on the front page, you will notice that only the first part of the story is displayed, you then have to click a link to read the rest of it. This is to stop the front page getting too long, and we are trying to keep those snippets fairly short.
The snippet on the front page will always use the first part of the post, and you can control where it cuts the snippet off by typing "<!--break-->".
When the web site see's this 'tag', it will cut the snippet off at that point, and to read anything after that, people will have to click through to read the whole story.

Between the Title and the Body, is a box with the different clubs and categories in. You need to choose the correct clubs and categories in this box to make sure people can see the story in the right places.
At the very least, you need to click on the club (cricket, football, golf) that the story relates to.

If there are different categories for the club (for example, the football club has fixtures, match reports, news, social events, and youth teams), you can also select one or more of those. To do that, hold down the Control button (usually at the bottom left and right of the keyboard, saying Ctrl) and click on the categories you want. So, if you are posting something about the Football Club Youth Team for example, first click on Football, then hold down the Ctrl button, and click on -Youth Teams below it as well.

You can leave the options below the Body box alone to begin with, you can use the Attachments box to add images, but I'll leave that for the moment.
Click the Preview if you want to check what the story looks like before putting it on the web site properly if you want, else jsut click Submit, and you will find the story listed on the front page immediately.

It's a fairly easy process once you've done it a few times, but please contact either Adrian Lee or Simon Rudd if you have any problems with it, and we'll give you a hand.