For the web site contributors...

Basics

The contributors are those people who have been allocated edition rights in one or more areas of the site. Notably the people in charge of the communication of the sections, the section coordinators and the team managers can acquire this status

As a contributor, enter your user name and password when entering the site. Using the navigation box or the tabs at the top, go to your area of interest. If you have local editing rights, an additional green edition area develops around the central frame of the screen when you reach your area. To add something, click on Add new...

The principal kind of items to add are as follows :

• the folder - this is kind of a container (like a classical "directory") that can contain more items
  
• the page - the page is the basic kind of element on a Plone site. This is some text that has to be written online directly in the edition form on the screen. Such text can simply be copy-pasted from another window on your own screen. You can add various features on parts of your text inside a page, like styles (heading, subheading, etc.) fat and italic, numbered or unnumbered lists, pictures, internal and external links and tables. Start simple and experiment with additional elements as you become more accustomed to the system. At the bottom of the page, you get a "Save" button to save your current page.
  
• the file is an item designed to import a computer file in some well-known format (Word - Excel - PDF, etc.). This should be a format that you expect all site browsers to be able to read (e.g. pdf format can be opened by Acroread)
  
• the image is an element designed to contain some picture or photo. An image can either be referenced as an illustration from inside a page or be left alone for independent visibility - see the note about a photo album below
  
• the event is an announcement of some event of general interest, that will show up on the corresponding date on the calendar -
  
• the news is some announcement of general interest - news and events are meant to vanish after their expiration date,
  
• a link is a way to reference another site or element of a site on the Internet. It must contain a valid URL. E.g. a link to the "Plone":http://plone.org
  
• an article is some kind of advanced item that can automagically be formatted and display text and illustrations in various formats - something for the experienced editor... 

Every item put on the site gets a publication and an expiration date attached to it (by default, publication is immediate and expiration date is undefined). To access this function, look for the "Date" tab while in edition mode. Proper management of publication and expiration dates can greatly help in keeping the site "clean".

Any item entered on the site is submitted to approval by the site moderator before being made public. As long as an item is left "Private", it is invisible for others. A click on "State" --> Submit for publication gets your item submitted for scrutiny by the site manager. He can make it "Public", i.e. visible to all.  An experienced and reliable contributor may eventually apply for the status of moderator. Indeed, a moderator can himself publish items.

More...

• using the "Display" tab, a directory can easily become a container for pictures, like a photo album. Create a folder, then choose Display --> View as thumbnails - every picture (image) you enter in this directory becomes visible as a small ("thumbnail") of the full image that can be seen by clicking on it
• if you want to display an image in a page, you can either upload it from your own computer of refer to an image that you entered in another directory, e.g. dedicated to images and pictures. Note that the tool gives you the opportunity to resize the view of the image on the page, as well as position it left, inline of right.
  
• for those knowledgeable in HTML, it is possible to fine tune the view of a page by clicking on the html tag in the toolbar. Use of the "Anchor" tool gives limited functionality in the same respect

Translations

Our Plone website is multilingual. In fact, the site adopts the language of the browser of the end user...  Any item initially entered on the site by any contributor is tagged as "Neutral language". As such, it will always display in its original language on the user's screen. To have it in another language than the original, the content must be translated. Translation of the information put inside the server is to be done manually... Best option would be to enter any new item of information in English, and then translate it to Dutch and French. As our primary goal is to provide sport information and especially contest results, translation can be considered as a second level of work. If you intend to provide translations, be aware that the title of any folder you create will itself require translation. Thereafter, any item inside a folder will require specific translation.