the manual

what we do

Tribal Core provides internet strategy and web marketing for businesses that value social responsibility, philanthropy and community.
Contact
Tyler Suchman
tyler -at- tribalcore dot com
805-715-9694
Ojai, California

May 27, 2007

Create a New Entry

  • Click Main Menu at the very top of the page in the middle

  • In the section in the middle of the Main Menu ("Your Site Name"), click "Create a new entry on this weblog"

  • Do your thing!

    Title: Title of the post

    Categories: choose one from the drop-down list

    Entry body: only the first one or two paragraphs

    Extended Entry: everything else in your post

    Use the buttons above the Entry Body and Extended Entry sections to select text and then bold, italicize, underline, create hyperlinks, email addresses and quoting passages.

    The last button, for quoting passages, or blockquotes, will create text that is indented and highlighted (like this text!). Note that a blockquote will appear different depending on your template, so on your site it won't necessarily be in a dark red box like this text. Modify the style sheet to change your blockquote formatting.

  • Keywords: The Keywords field can hold whatever type of data you want to put in it; it is geared for holding metadata or keywords about your entry, and is not normally displayed publicly on the website.

  • Tags: use a few keywords or keyword phrases (2 or more words) to describe the contents of the entry. This will be very helpful for search engine optimization and for context on third-party social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Technorati and Del.icio.us. Read more about tags on the Category page of this manual.

  • When ready to Preview or Save, scroll to the bottom.

  • Post Status: Published means that it will go live immediately, even if the time listed in the Authored On box is in the future. Simply hitting Save will then push the post live. Depending on whether your website is set up as a blog or not, your entries may contain a visible date stamp, such as "posted on April 20, 2007".

  • If you go back an hour later, and edit an entry, saving it without changing the time listed in the Authored On box will result in it re-posting at the original post time (which is the generally the proper setting).

  • All the other options should be left as default, and have been set up and customized by Tribal Core based on your initial website needs.

rebuilding your site

Your website is "built" by the content management system, which creates "static pages". Sometimes, when you make changes, you will need to rebuild your site. Adding categories, changing modules, removing entries off the home page are all examples of situations where you will need to rebuild your site.

  • From the Main Menu, under My Weblogs, click the Title of your website

  • In the left column, click Rebuild Site

  • You can rebuild the whole website, or types of pages. For instance, if you make a change in the Individual Entry Template, then you only need to "Rebuild Individual Archives Only". This will speed up the process if you have a lot of pages in your website.

You can also rebuild one page at a time in the Entries section, by placing a check in the checkbox next to the entry, and selecting Rebuild. This can be very helpful for testing a site change. For instance, you can copy-and-paste your homepage content into a new Template called index-test.shtml, and then make changes to this test page, rebuilding as necessary.