The whole purpose of a web site like aecsimqa is to encourage editing by the registered participants. This brief guide accessible to registered users explains how to edit or add pages.

On logging in to the ecsimqa web site you are faced with this entry screen:

The key thing to notice here is that there are menu tabs at the top of the main text entry area (the 'Body'):

Clearly the default 'View' is what normal browsers of aecsimqa see. The other tabs are where the content may be edited.

The Edit tab is easy to understand. It is where the content may be edited. The edit interface has a content editor window that looks like this:

The buttons make general sense. [B]= Bold [I]= Italic and so on. The Chain Link icons allow you to highlight some text and to create a link to a web site by associating the www.name of that site with the highlighted text. The picture of an icon allows you to upload and insert an image.

Unfortunately, the scissors/paper/clipboard icons are cut/copy/paste operators but they are disabled in any Mozilla based editor such as Firefox or Flock and cannot be easily enabled; in Internet Explorer the first use pops up a window asking whether you wish to enable these functions for this web site...

NOTE: there are several other boxes into which information can be entered / changed.

• Title - is the summary entry read on menus
• Environmental System Categories are the tags that can be used for searching within the site
• The Audience is a list of the book pages / topics where the entry may appear as a link if it is a blog entry - it appears as a heading at the bottom of the topic(s) you highlight here
• Technorati tags are tags that are used by the technorati web blog search engine to categorise the content of the page
• Meta Tags is the set of fields that are found by search engines like google that again categorise the content of the page
• URL path settings is the name that your page / content will appear under on the web e.g. http://www.aecsimqa.net/en/Philosophy_imagined_realities rather than under the standard name of http://www.aecsimqa.net/en/node/43 (NOTE: the en/ portion of this recognises that the underlying structure allows other language versions of nodes than the base ENglish

The Outlinetab is where you create/edit the links between the page you are working on and other pages.As it states at its head: The outline feature allows you to include blog posts in the book hierarchy. What happens otherwise is the blog entry just appears as a footnote to the pages highlighted in 'Audience' section of edit tab.

The Tags tab is where you enter overall content classification tags

Technorati Tags: guide publications writing