1 - Title
This is the title of your article2 - Alias
This is the name you web site will refer to this article by.3 - Article Statistics
This box gives you statistics on your article. These are more useful if you are editing an article, rather than creating one.4 - Section and Category
Choose the section and category this article should appear in.5 - Editing Area
This is where you can edit your article. You will find that, by using the toolbars above or below this area, it begins to seem a lot more like the desktop word processors you are used to using.6 - Insert an Image
Click the image button at the bottom of the page. If you would like to use a picture that is on your computer, click "Browse Files" at the bottom of the screen, and then "Start Upload". Once the upload is done, your image will appear on the screen. If this image is somewhere else on the internet, you can link directly to it! Just copy and paste the image's URL into the "Image URL" box.Maximum image dimensions should be less than 500 pixels wide (or it wont fit on some screens) and should be as small as possible to make it faster loading (ideally less than 100kb). A 200 kb file will take approximately 50 seconds to download at 56kb(dial up internet) and 20 seconds at 128 kb(slow broadband) Light Design's choice of picture formats is PNG(for better quality images). JPG's will often give 'blocky' poor quality images. Depending on the web browser, animated GIF's may not animate.To use an image once it is uploaded to the web site, just click on the picture and the link will fill automatically. The "Image Description" box is the text that is displayed for someone that has images turned off or if there is an error with the image . The "Image Title" is the text that will be displayed on the tooltip if you hover over the image. If you check the "Caption" checkbox, you will see the title of the image below it.
Set the image alignment if required (this is where the image will sit on your page). After you are done, scroll over to the top left and click "Insert".
If you wish to delete an image, click the image with your mouse and the delete key on your computer.
7 - Insert a Pagebreak
When you write an article, you can choose to have everything on one page, or make multiple parts of the article on different pages. You can choose where each page ends with pagebreaks. When you are editing, they will appear as a line across your page.To split your article into separate pages, click the "Pagebreak" button near the bottom of the screen. The "Page Title" is the title that will be displayed at the top of that page of the article. The "Table of Contents Alias" is how that page will be shown in the table of contents on the article. When you are finished modifying these settings, click "Insert Pagebreak".
8 - Adding a "Read More..." partition
A "Read More..." partition provides a preview or summary of your article. Everything above this "Read More..." partition is the preview text; this text can be seen in the preview of the article as well as in the full article itself. The content below the "Read More..." partition will only be seen if the "Read More..." link is clicked on. If you do not insert a "Read More..." partition, the whole article will be displayed. It is generally reccommended to do this unless the article is just a short announcement. While you are creating or editing an article, the "Read More..." partition will look like a line across your page.Don't worry if you can't see a "Read More..." link or a "Page Two" when you click "Preview". These only show up once you post it.
