People And Place

Please read carefully. Everything you need to know is here and in the instructions below. If something isn’t working re-read these instructions or have someone else read it. If in difficulty contact steve@stmedia.org

Logging On -|- The Back Office -|- Add a Picture -|- Moderate a Comment -|- Add a Gallery -|- Edit a Gallery

• Each participating group posts one picture per day that expresses who they are, where they come from and what they are doing.
• The teacher has the username and password to post the picture but the children choose the picture and decide what words (if any) to write to go with it.
• The uploaded picture will be automatically resized for the site (600 pixels wide). If your picture is wider than this clicking on the site picture will open up your bigger picture. Therefore you don’t have to resize your picture but if it is really big then it might take ages to upload. It would be best if the picture was not more than 1000 pixels wide.
• You don’t have to post a picture every day. You can do so as and when you are able
• If you like you can collect your pictures for a week and then post them all at once on one day.
• It is possible to change the date (see instructions) so that the pictures you post all in one day get posted with the date they were taken - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc.
• You can look at the pictures other groups have posted by clicking on their names in the left hand side.
• You can comment on pictures other children have posted or ask them a question. To do this click on “leave a comment” that appears below a picture
• The teacher responsible for each school will get an email if a comment is posted. They must then check the comment and publish it if they are happy to do so (see instructions)
• Any problems contact steve@stmedia.org

Read the following carefully, it will tell you all you need to know about uploading images (provided you are a member of this group)

One thing to watch out for is your filenames. Avoid using spaces or capitals in your file names.

Therefore

my_picture.jpg or mypicture.jpg

works!

Whilst

My Picture.jpg or my picture.jpg (with spaces)

does not.

You need to be logged on to add any content to the People And Place Website. The are two parts to the website. The part that the public can see and the “back office” where members of the project can add images and content.

To get to the back office wee need to click on the word “login” over on the left of the website. When you do that your will see the screen below.

type in your login (username) and password.

You can now choose to click on the “login” button or click on the “login to back office” button. If you click on the “login to back office” button you will go right to the back office to add your pictures etc. If you click on the “login” button you may simply see a change in the website that will look like this:

You will see that the word “login” has become “admin". Clicking on “admin” will take you to the back office. You will notice that there is also a link to logout. You should logout at the end of your session because your computer will remain logged in even if you switch it off and on again.

The back office looks like the picture below.

This shows the back office ready for your picture and text. If it does not look like this click in “WRITE” which is marked (5) in the diagram.

Type a Title in the title box which is marked (1) in the diagram.

The area marked (2) in the diagram is where we will put our picture but you can type a few words in here too.

The UPLOAD button marked (3) is the means we will use to upload our picture (see next item)

When we are done we will click on SAVE marked (7) which will publish our picture but we’ll come to that later.

If you tick the box marked (4) before you save your work you can alter the date shown to the left of it so that you could load a set of images, say at the end of the week, and have them dated accordingly so you can post a picture per day retrospectively.

The button WRITE marked number (5) is what you click when you want to write something new (add a new picture) and the button POSTS marked (6) is what you click if you want to edit something you wrote earlier (you can use edit to alter the date)

To add a picture click on the UPLOAD button marked item (3) in the diagram above and you will see the upload box pictured below.

Click on the BROWSE button and search for the image on your computer and select it by double clicking on it or by clicking on it and then clicking on “open".

Once you have selected your image click on the “UPLOAD” button indicated by the arrow in the diagram above.

You can choose to write in some “alternative text” before you upload which is good practice because this is what screen readers look at for people who are visually impaired. You can also write a “caption” but these things are optional.

When you click on upload please be patient and don’t click again as your image upload may take a while.

When your image is uploaded you will see the dialogue represented in the diagram below.

You will see the text “add the code to your post” - Click on “add the code to your post".

Your posting will then look like the diagram below.

We are nearly ready to save the image posting but before you do you way want to add some words below the code you can see. If you do so be careful not to disturb any of the code. All you need to do to finish this task is click SAVE as show by the arrow in the diagram above.

When this is done click on the “exit to blogs” link in the top right hand of your screen to admire your handiwork.

If someone comments on a picture you have posted you will receive email notification. If this happens go to the people and place website and log on to the back office as previously described.

Click on the POSTS button as indicated by the arrow in the diagram above.

Next click on the COMMENTS tab also indicated by the arrow above.

You will see all the comments including new ones that are as yet unpublished. You can review them and publish them if you are happy by clicking the PUBLISH button. Alternatively you can edit (Change, save then publish) them or DELETE them entirely.