AMERICAN OBSERVER

Linking in a story

2007-09-25T18:57:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!
After a few people asked me how to add a hyperlink in the story, as I did in my review, I decided I would just post it here. It really is simple:

For example, say you have this text:
The American Observer is an online news magazine.

* If you want to link to the Web site, pick 1 or 2 words and add the beginning part of the tag

before the first word and then the end tag

after the second word.

So the final product would look like this:

(sorry this is so small, blogger resizes images -- if you want to view it bigger click it and it will open in a new window.)

When Lisa loads the story the html will not show up, but the linkable text will: American Observer.

Just make sure that you don't add "http://" or "www" if it isn't in the actual link, or it will be a broken link and take the user to an error page.

--I wrote it out, scanned it, then uploaded it here because when I actually wrote out the steps the program realized it was html and hid it (like it will do when Lisa adds the stories to the site) and therefore, my examples didn't make any sense.

I may have made this seem more difficult than it is, so if you need further assistance let me know. (or Katharine or someone else in class that knows how to do it.)

=)

Also, I guess you only need to do this if you write a story for the site.

Photo captions

2007-09-25T14:06:00.001-07:00

As Perri said today, the people who take pictures can either upload them to the wiki or send them by mail to Lagan which is....lagan_sebert2003@yahoo.com. Or would everyone rather send them to the observer gmail?

Blurbs and headlines

2007-09-25T13:15:00.000-07:00

Everyone who does a story should try to do a tentative headline that will later be looked at, and post it next to the story on the wiki under the page "Drafts+copies" just like the captions are uploaded. For stories that only have multimedia and videos, the ones who do it also should add a blurb.

For the next American Observer

2007-09-25T12:52:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, we talked to Caine and Jessica and thought that instead of using the observer gmail we could use this blog to post all new updates on our stories, recommendations for the next time etc. I think it will be more practical to look at this than to use the gmail, which no one is really using. So we talked to Perri and she gave us some tips.

1. People who take photos should write their own captions on a word document, and post it on the wiki under "captions." The way to post on the wiki is the following:
a- Go to http://observer2007.pbwiki.com/ (the password is observer07)
b- Fall Tuesday - September 25 - Captions.
c- There you click on "edit page"
d- On the new page that shows up, write a title to your caption like "Sakina's pictures of Bethesda Festival"
e - Highlight the title you wrote, and click on "link" on the tool bar. Give it OK and then save.
f- You will be redirected to the captions page, where you will see your title in blue font and underlined. Click on it - create new page - and copy paste the captions to all of your pictures, with a description of each one of them so people can figure out which ones they are. Then you click SAVE and it is done.