FAQ for posting/publishing contents

1. Types of contents?
2. How to create a content?
3. What can I do with a blog entry?
4. What can I do, if I have problem with format my blog?
5. How do I insert a photo/image into my entry, blog or others?
6. Still can't figure it out?  

1. Types of contents: 
 a. album: for images and photos.
 b. blog: subdivided into cases, jobs, China, Review, leisure and others. EVERY USER's blog will also be collected in her/his own volume/blog, which would be pretty handy if you wanna your own blog.  
 c. Forum topic: for forum discussion, not available yet.
 d. page: for announcement and website building, most useful for IT team. It includes site and organization.
 e. poll: run for a poll on subject
 f. story: similar to page, for major annoucement. It's categorized into news and annoucement, which have shortcut on the top of the home page.
 g. iFramepage: Reserved for teaching cases only. IT team will handle this type of content at this moment.

2. How to create a content: 
 a. log in by entering your user name and password in the log in field of left upper corner.
 b. click on create content on left panel (immediately below your user name)
 c. select the type of content you'd like to create. The most recommended is blog.
 d. edit it as instructed in item 3., and save it at the end.

3. What can I do with a blog entry?
 a. you may format it in a way you like, just as in MS word. It includes many functions like link, table, etc.
 b. you may set the blog publishing time by changing options in "Authoring information/Authored by:"  under Authoring information section.
 c. you may attach a file or image to you blog by easily click on "File attachments" or "Insert image". The attachement will appear at the bottom of your blog. See item 5 for detail.
 d. you may control the comment options by clicking on Comment settings
 e. you may also insert a teaser to make your blog summary shorter, which is located in the right upper corner of your editing menu.

4. What can I do, if I have problem with format my blog?
We suggest the following simplest and most effective way of editing.
 a. edit your work in a simple text editing software, like notepad.
 b. copy and paste the txt lines in your blog entry window, also a rich_text based editor.
 c. you may format it in a way you like, including bold it, underline, etc, just like in MS-Word®. Of note, for emails, the @ sign MUST be inserted by using ASCII codes. Otherwise, formatting errors will be resulted.

5. How do I insert a photo/image into my entry, blog or others?
 a. put the cursor in the place where you'd like to the image/photo to be.
 b. click on file attachments, the fifth item under your editing window.
 c. browse, select and attach the file you want to attach.
 d. copy the file link at the bottom, which should look like http://capaht.org/capa/html/sites/default/files/Appendicitis_1_S60-3500....
 e. click the "mountain and sun" sign in your right upper corner of editing menu to insert an image.
 f. paste the above link in the URL line, add alternative text for the image like "gross photo", set width to 750 pixel (recommended!), and clikc OK to save. Note: you may set the alignment of the image, etc.

6. Still can't figure it out?
No problem. Email us your content, and the web committee/team will do it for you. Feel free to contact us at it@capaht.org or web committee chair at lanjing.zhang@mssm.edu 
 
IT team 3/4/2010 2nd ed.
IT team 1/21/2010 1st ed.