Authors Welcome!

Here’s a basic “how to” as well as some tips:

To Post Information

Login to the site, using your username and password. You received this in an email when you registered. To find the login link, visit the home page and scroll down on the right hand side until you see “Meta”. Click “Login” (or Site Admin if you are already logged in).

For a simple upload:

• Use the Quick Press box on the Dashboard.
• You can copy and paste text into the main box, and add your suggested title in the title bar above the box.
• When done, click “Submit for Review.”

To use the Editor Screen:

• Click “Add New Post”
• Text: You can still copy and paste text into the main box and add your suggested title in the title bar above the box.
• Formatting: You should be able to add links (where appropriate) using the link icon. You can also use bullets, numbered lists, bold, italic, etc.
• Tags: tags are short key words used for searching. You can add them, or we will.
• Categories: make the drop down menus run. We will handle this.
• Photos: If you have photos or logos to add to the story, please email them to us. If there are more than 3, feel free to upload to Picasa or other slideshow photo editor and email us the embed code for the slideshow (in Picasa: create your show, make sure it’s public, then click “link to this slideshow” and “embed”. Select medium or large size and copy the code in the box – that’s what we need).
• All the other boxes: You can ignore. We handle Hybrid Settings, Custom Fields, Twitter, etc.

The Author Box

With the new design of the Boulder Jewish News, readers see an Author Box at the end of each article. Here’s what mine looks like:

It consists of the picture, which is pulled from your “Gravatar”, your display name (here I’m using Editor) and whatever biographical information you’d like people to see about you.  It can be a few words, or a few paragraphs, whatever your comfortable with.  You can even plug your organization.

Profile Update Instructions

1. Login (same instruction as above)
2. On the “Dashboard“, on the left side of the page, click on the button/link called “Profile” (or a little pictogram that looks like two people).
3. Then, scroll down toward the bottom to the section called “About yourself“.  Fill in a few words, sentences or paragraphs about yourself. This is what will show at the bottom of your posts.
4. Click the “Update Profile” button.  This part is done!

Gravatar Instructions

1. A Gravatar is a small photo of you that shows up in the Author Box (like your photo on Facebook or other sites).
2. Go to www.gravatar.com
3. Click on the “Get your Gravatar today” button.
4. Sign up for an account.  Use the email address that you used in your Boulder Jewish News profile.  This is important — if you use a different email address, the BJN site won’t be able to talk to the Gravatar site.
5. Confirm your email address from the sign up email that Gravatar.com will send you.
6. Upload a picture of yourself or a representative image and use their tool to crop it to size — they show you a preview of what it will look like.
7. Select a rating for your Gravatar — presumably “G” (that’s what we display).
8. That’s it!  If you have other email addresses, you can register those as well to either use the same or a different picture or image, as you wish.

Questions? Please contact us, we are happy to walk you through the process. Thank you for helping create your community Jewish news.