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Embedding Presentations in Your Site

admin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:02:00 +0000

Upload PDFs to To Your Docs and Share on Your Site

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:11:20 +0000

If your group publishes a newsletter in PDF format and it is under 10 megabytes, you can now upload it to your Docs and share on your website. To upload a PDF, log in to your Docs account, and follow these steps:

Click the Upload button at the top of the sidebar in your Docs list page.
Click Browse.
Select the document, spreadsheet, or presentation you’d like to open.
Click Open.
Click Upload File. The uploaded file appears in your Docs list.

New Features in Presentations

admin — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:05:54 +0000

Webmaster News on Your Dashboard

admin — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:54:44 +0000

In case you haven’t noticed, Webmaster News articles (like this one!) are now displayed on your website’s Dashboard (that’s the first page you see when you log in to your website), so please make sure you read through them.

Member Email Account Update

admin — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:03:41 +0000

Please note, that you must now create usernames for your Unit members in the following format, ‘LAST NAME+WBCCI NUMBER’ e.g., ‘schwartz6111′ — this will ensure uniqueness and also make email addresses meaningful to everyone.

If you have previously submitted the CSV file to create accounts and haven’t heard anything, please revise your list using the above formula and resubmit it.

And as always, if you have any questions, please submit a support request.

Saving Articles and Pages

admin — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:17:23 +0000

After writing a new Article or Page you have three options for saving your work:

Save and Continue Editing
This option will save your work and allow you to continue writing or editing the same page. Use this option to save interim copies of your work.

Save
If you click on the Save button, your work will be saved as a Draft. Use this option if you are not finished with your work and want to return to it later. It will NOT be visible to anyone but you until it is published.

Publish
When you click on the Publish button, your work will be saved and immediately published to your website where it can be seen by visitors. Use this option when you are finished writing and/or editing your work and you want it to appear on your website.

Tip: You can also control the visibility of your Articles and Pages by editing the “Status” option.

How to Hide an Empty Page

admin — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:36:28 +0000

If you don’t want an Article or Page on your website to appear in the menu, you can make it invisible without deleting it by setting its “Status” to “Draft.”

The Status options are grouped with all the options in the right-hand column of both the “Write Article” and “Write Page” screens, and the “Edit Article” and “Edit Page” screens. They are the blue boxes you see with the “plus” symbol (+). To see the options, click on the + and the options will appear below it.

New Webmaster Training Videos

admin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:34:12 +0000

Three training videos are now available for webmasters, with more to be added later. The demonstrations now available are:

Requesting a Webmaster Account
Setting Up Your Group’s Email and Calendar
Creating Your Group’s Website

The new training videos are part of WBCCI.net’s Help section, which also contains introduction videos for Email, Calendar and Docs; User Guides in PDF format; a Knowledgebase of Frequently Asked Questions; a forum to discuss website ideas, etc.; and a Support Ticket system to request help if you are unable to resolve an issue in any other way. You will need Adobe Flash Player to view the videos.

Go to Website Training Videos >>

Use PDFCreator to Generate Optimized PDFs for FREE

admin — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:15:52 +0000

PDF, which stands for “portable document format,” is an electronic file format that captures and retains all the formatting elements of a printed document. Adobe Acrobat is the most common program used to create PDFs, which are often used by WBCCI units to distribute newsletters. This is great because viewers only need to download the FREE Adobe Reader (and probably already have it on their PCs) to view them.Another way to create PDFs besides using Adobe Acrobat is by using the open-source program PDFCreator.PDFCreator allows any application that can print to paper to “print to a PDF” instead. This means pretty much any application that you might use to create a newsletter can now also generate an optimized PDF that can be uploaded and distributed from your website.Download PDFCreator >

File Upload Limits

admin — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:19:13 +0000

Each website has a limit of 20MB for file uploads, which should be plenty for most users. Because of this, it is very important that webmasters optimize all images that will be uploaded.This pigeon is around 235kb in size.

The pigeon below is only 72kb – less than a third of the above.

See any real differences? Optimizing your images does 3 things:

It makes images quicker to upload
It makes your page load faster for people looking at it
You can fit more images into a limited space

Simply making an image smaller does not necessarily make the filesize smaller. You need to optimize the image.The original image of that pigeon is 1.2MB so that top image is already 1/6 of the size and the bottom image is 16% of the original size. But it still looks okay.There are many programs which you can use to optimize images. Packages such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro will do it, but there is no need to spend money on doing this, when these are free: