Welcome to the Huber Heights Liberty Group Website!

This is a guide to creating and submitting content to our site. First, a note:

   Our organization is about policies and principles. We do not allow profanity, or racial or ethnic slurs. We are non-partisan and do not stump for any political party.
   Also, we are a non-profit, all-volunteer group comprised of ordinary people with busy lives. Your contribution may take hours or even a day before we get to it - So please be patient. Thank you for understanding.

• Create an account
• Creating content
• Finding your content if it has been returned to you for additional work
• Adding an image to your content

    Anyone can view any material on our site, but you must have an account with us to be able to submit any material for publication. (At present, this includes stories and blog entries.)

To create an account with us:

• Either click on the "Join Us" button on the left side of the Home page, or click on the "Create new account" link under the "Log In" form.

    This will take you to the create account form.

• Enter a Username (it needs to be unique, without spaces, and once you choose one, you can't change it later), and your email address (required). Enter your Personal Information (optional).
• Click "Create New Account"
• You will receive an email giving you further instructions on obtaining a password and on completing the registration.

Once you have an account and are logged in, you will see more options appear in the left side of the home page in the Navigation Menu:

• My Account - where you can change Passwords, Personal Information, and email preferences (Ignore the checkbox "Personal contact form" under "Contact Settings" - we do not use this on our site.)
• Workflow Summary - More on that later
• Create Content - where you can create stories and blog entries
• Log out

Creating Content

Click on "Create Content"; you will see a page offering the available types of content (story, blog entry, etc). Click on the type you want. We will use a story as an example.  You will then see a page:

Enter the title of your story then type your story in the "Body" space. Alternatively, you can use the text editor of your choice, such as MS Word or Notepad, and copy and paste your content into the Body of the form. Use the "Paste from Word" or "Paste As Plain Text" buttons.

Experiment to see what works best for you.

    Click on the Preview button at the bottom of the page and review your work. Make any changes, then when you are satisfied, click on Save. Once you click on Save, you will not be able to make any further changes to your story.

   At this point, the story goes to the Editor, who will approve it or send it back to you for additional work; either way, an email will be sent to you.

Finding your story if it has been returned

If the email has informed you that your story has been returned for further work, go to the Navigation menu

and click on Workflow Summary. This takes you to the following screen:

Click on the combobox "Current State." If this is a story, click on "Draft" under "Story Review Process," then click Apply.

(You can also use the "Content Type" box to find your story.) You will then see a screen like this:

Click on the title of your story. (In this example, the title is "Rally in Vandalia.") You will then see this:

Click on the Edit tab.

   You will then see the word processing screen you first used to create your story. Enter your corrections. When satisfied, click Save.

Creating other types of content follows the same general pattern. (A blog entry would be found under "Blog Review Process - Draft," etc.)

Adding an Image to Your Content

Place your cursor in the location of your story (or blog entry, etc.) at the point at which you wish to insert your picture. Then click on the rectangular Image button (next to the round red "Flash" button).

You then get the Image Properties screen:

Click on the Browse Server button and you get the File Browser pop up screen, which contains the Upload, Resize and Insert buttons

Click on the Upload button and get the File Upload screen:

Click on the Browse button and browse to the location on your hard drive that contains the image file you want (Note: Accepted file extensions are .jpg .jpeg .png .gif) After you have made your selection, click on Upload. Maximum allowable resolution is 400 x 400 pixels. If your picture is larger than this, it will be resized. If you want to further resize your image, click on the Resize button and a screen appears that lets you change the dimensions:

Enter the width in pixels and tab to (or click in) the height box - the correct number of pixels for the height will be automatically entered in keeping with the width you chose. Know that for a typical monitor with a width of 1024 and a height of 768 pixels, the center space of our website page (where your story is going to be displayed) is 524 pixels wide. Click on the Resize button next to the Width and Height boxes, then click on Insert file.

This takes you back to the Image Properties screen, now with your image inserted:

Click on the OK button to finish the process. You can click on Preview at the bottom of the page to see what your story will look like with the image you just inserted. At this point, if you want to change the size, Right Click on the image, then click on Image Properties; this takes you back to the Image Properties screen as above. From there, you can enter the new width, click on the height box, then OK. Note that the new width and height won't show up in your Preview, but it will in the version that finally gets posted.