Projects Tutorial

Adding your Project

Using this facility, registered Foundation members can post information about projects in which they are involved. You can ask for help with your project, offer your help to others or just promote the project.

You can also access these Projects pages from within the online community which you enter by pressing on the "Participate" tab. Within the community, you can discuss the project, and the issues, problems and successes you have encountered in developing it.

So how do you go about it ?

First you must be registered as a member of the online community, so register now and add your profile. If you have already registered make sure you are signed in

On the [PROJECTS DIRECTORY] page, find "New" to the right side of the page. Click "New" and you'll be taken to a "New Page"

Give your Project page a title by replacing the words "New Page" in the text box to the left of the page. That's very important. The title you enter will then show up in our index and search. So make the title one by which your project can be easily identified.

Then use the option "Select a page template to start from" and choose the Projects template.

Then move your cursor to the box headed Rich Text/Wiki Markup/Preview and start composing.

Composing your page

You can use either "Rich Text" or "Wiki Markup" to write your project page.

Rich Text

With Rich Text, you get some of the formatting options with which you may be familiar from your Word Processor - things like Bold, Italics, Underline. You can add links to other websites, perhaps your own project website. You can put in headings, add pictures, and if you know about "macros", add these too.   Try them all out.

Wiki Markup

Wiki Markup is probably for those who are more familiar with formatting for web pages and know the Wiki Markup codes for headings, spaces, macros and widgets etc. But it is easier for some things.

So here's a few tips:

1. To add a heading put "h1.", "h3." "h4." "h5." or "h6." before the text of the heading. Don't forget the full stop.

2. Use coded formatting instructions. These are words known to the computer appearing between two brackets. Make sure you use the right brackets.

3. To put text in the centre of your page, type in:

Pictures

To put pictures on the site, find the small icon just above the writing panel and click it.

The icon is the same in Wiki Markup but further to the left.
Then follow the instructions in the panel which then appears. Note that you have the opportunity to put your picture to the left or right of your page or in the centre. If you choose "None" your picture will appear to the left of the page, but your text will be beneath it.

"This Project needs" and "This Project offers:"

If you have selected the "Projects" template to write your page this text will already be there and it will appear on the wesbite page when you have finished. Please take the opportunity to say briefly what your project needs and what you can offer others. Insert your text to do this between the two vertical lines in each case.

Preview

Before you "Save" your page, use "Preview" to see how it will look on our site. Make changes if you need to.

Labels

Also before you "Save" you might want to add a "Label" to "tag" your site so that it shows up in the "Tags" section of the online community. You can find the opportunity to do this at the bottom of the compose/edit page. Just one, two or three words in the box alongside "Labels" will be enough, but remember that if you use more than one word, the words must be joined by an underscore e.g.

Save

Then "Save" your page and it will then be available to other members who can search for your page by its title and can then comment on your project.