Submit/Edit an Article

This Help - Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) item provides guidance on submitting and editing articles - for both your club's News and About items, as well as for other Site-wide Items. Articles in these News and About categories are the means to show all club information that is not related to your venues or events (with the latter much better captured under Venues or Events.) The difference between News and About is that News items are displayed with the latest at the top while About is displayed with the most popular at the top (more suitable for static information).

To submit an article all you need is to:

• Be registered as a suitably authorised member on the website - the  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will do this when you are nominated by your bridge club
• Login to the site (using the Login/Logout link on the Home menu (top left)
• Click on the Submit a News/About Item link in the Venue menu in the left hand column under your venue (or on the Submit a XYZ Item in the Home Menu for Site-wide items such as those for the Learning Hub or the For Directors menus
• Enter the article's Title (not too long please)
• Leave the alias field blank - it will be created automatically
• Enter the article in the Editor text area - this is a WYSIWYG editor and most of the editor icons at the top will be self-explanatory, and tool-tips will appear when you hover over them. On the whole minimal formatting is best such as bullets and applying bold or italics to particular words or phrases. Avoid applying colours or large fonts as it looks odd on the webpage. For those that can't avoid copying and pasting from Word please use the drop-down option on the Paste icon that allows you to Paste as Plain Text so you can avoid all the corruptions that Word's formatting causes.
• If the item is a draft or incomplete you can change the default of Published to Unpublished in the dropdown below the editor window.
• Turn on the Featured option if your News article will genuinely be of interest to all site users - such as coverage of an interclub event.
• Use the  icon to enter the Start and Finishing Publishing dates as appropriate - the Start date will default to the article creation date, but do set a Finishing Publishing date for all articles that will become obsolete such as a yearly player list.
• Leave all the other fields as you find them!
• Click on the Save button
• Check that the article displays as intended - and correct any anomalies - even if you have set the article to Unpublished you will be able to see it as its author while you are logged in.

To edit an existing article, find and display it, and then click on the  icon to the far right of the article title. Then edit as above.

We hope this FAQ item has assisted you. Please  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. how you think it can be improved.