WEB SITE. Interface publication Instructions

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1 WEB SITE Interface publication Instructions Version 1.0 Language: English I Introduction Organisation of the site The site of EU-HOU is a site of CMS type, which allows the recorded users to publish articles on-line, without any use of a specialised HTML editor, or any prior knowledge of the HTML language. It consists of two great types of interface: The public interface visible by all the Net surfers.

2 The publishing interface, accessible by password. It is through this interface that you will be able to submit your articles to publication, as well as to reach various documents and functionalities reserved to the EU-HOU members Various types of users The site is accessible to 3 types of public: General public, who can reach the entire public interface. These users cannot take part in the forums of discussion. Recorded public, who can reach the entire public interface, and being able to take part in the forums of discussion. The registration of these users is also done from the public interface. Members, who have all the rights of the recorded public, and can furthermore reach the publication interface, in order to submit articles to publication, to consult the administrative documents, to take part in the forums of discussion opened to members only, to take part in the on-line Chat, and to see the statistics of the site frequentations. The sole administrator is entitled to create the accounts of the members Organisation of the public site The public site is organised into 7 main sections: What is EU-HOU?: section devoted to the presentation of the operating mode of the project. The software, section devoted to the SalsaJ software (downloading, on-line help ). Exercises, section devoted to pedagogical resources.

3 Tools, section devoted to the observational tools offered to the users of EU-HOU. Forums, section, providing access to the public forums of discussion. News, section with the news regarding the life of the project. Important Dates, section organised as a diary of the EU-HOU activities. II The publishing Area This space, accessible from requires a login and a password Various parts This space is divided into 5 great sections: Publishing: it is from this section that the users can enter their articles on-line. Administration: it is from this section that the users can consult the documents related to the project management. They can also publish some, and they also have access to internal news (member news) and to the directory of the EU-HOU members. Forums: section giving access the forums of discussions (public or reserved to the members) Chat: section enabling on-line dialog between members from the Web interface. Statistics: section displaying the statistics of the site. All these sections are accessible either with the icons from the banner page of the publishing area, or through the main menu.

4 2.2 - Publication It is from the publishing interface, that one can select the type of article to publish on the public interface. There are 5 types of articles, which can be subject to publication: NEWS EXERCISES TOOLS The articles for the electronic NEWSLETTER: these articles are not directly visible from the public interface, but are integrated in the EU-HOU newsletter. Events DATE The methods of publication of an article are detailed in part III of this handbook Administration You find in this section the possibility of: Consulting the official HOU management. and administrative documents concerning the EU- Publish official or administrative documents. Consult and publish the news reserved to the EU-HOU. This news appears in particular in the banner page of the publishing area.

5 Consult the directory of the EU-HOU members Forums The forums are organised like the traditional forums. The section Administrator forums is of course visible for the members only. You will be able to join to your contribution images or files. It is also possible to subscribe the forums with RSS flows Chat You can from the Web interface of the site discuss on-line with the other connectedmembers.

6 To know who is connected, a window Who s Online is posted on the right hand side: To know who is in the chat area, a window Who s in Chat is present on the right below the previous one: Statistics This section presents the statistics of site frequentation.

7 III To write an article Composition of an article It is important to understand the composition of an article before publishing one. An article is composed of: A title. It is this title, which appears in the list of the articles to be consulted. An introduction. It is this part which appears on some pages (for example the TOOLS page) presenting a short cut of the articles. It is also in this introduction that the search engines will index the keywords making it possible to refer the site. Main Text.

8 Moreover, the articles follow a quite precise classification, with the hierarchy Section- > Category - > Articles. SECTION Public News Exercises Tools Newsletter Internal News Administration CATEGORY Global Introduction to astronomical observations Planets and Solar System Stars and stellar evolution Galaxies and cosmology ( Multimedia observing Public Members Global Administrative matters Official documents When you will publish your article, the section will be selected automatically, but you will have to select the category in which you want to publish this article. For example, if you wish to publish an exercise, you will have to indicate in which category you want to classify it: Introduction to astronomical observations, Planets and Solar System, Stars and stellar evolution or Galaxies and cosmology Interface You decided to publish an exercise: SAMPLE EXERCISE. The following interface appears:

9 There is a field «Title», in which you type the title... An elevator enables to select the category in which the article should be published: Two interfaces from publication of type Word become then available, one for the text of introduction (Intro Text) and the other for the main body of the article (Main Text). Each of these interfaces is equipped with a certain number of options to format the article.

10 Each button of the interface is commented, when one leaves the pointer of the mouse on it Text You enter the text either directly on the keyboard, or by copy/paste (from a document txt, a Word document or a Web page). Once the text is copied, you can format it thanks to various options, in particular the styles. The use of the preset styles is recommended, as it guarantees coherence in the presentation of all the articles of the site. But it is also possible to freely format the text, in particular with the options Font Family Font size Text color It is possible to create tables:

11 Here the text of the example formatted with the preset styles Images It is possible to include images directly from your computer with the interface. For that, it is necessary to use the button, which opens a new window.

12 You have to select the directory in which you plan to store your image (here exercise!) Then, you click on the button Upload:

13 After clicking on Browsing, you reach your hard disk, where you can select the image to be downloaded: Last, you click on Upload: You can then see your image in the Image Manager.

14 To include this image in the article, you click on it and then on Insert: The image is included in the article.

15 It is possible to modify it, for example if it is too large. For that, it should be selected by clicking on it, with the right button of the mouse, to edit Image properties Here, we will reduce its size to 150 px.

16 3.5 - Files The procedure for the integration of files in the article is the same one as for the images, except that it is necessary to click on the button

17 3.6 - Links To insert a Link you must select the text which will have pointed towards the link, then to click on the icon A new window opens: So, you can : Make a direct link towards an article of the site («Link to Publisherd Content») Make a link to an («Enter Adress») Make has link to a web page («Enter Link Information») To validate, click on «Insert»

18 3.7 - Publication Once your article has a proper page setting, it is still necessary to fill two fields prior to publication: Publishing : Access level: indicates which type of public will be able to consult the article. For the articles intended for the public interface, it is necessary to select Public for this field (it should be Special for the articles which are intended to members only). Author alias: This field has not to be filled. Start publishin : allows to decide a beginning date for the publication of the article. Finish Publishing: allows to give a completion date of publication (it should be left vacuum if you have not reason to see disappearing the article on a given date). Show front Page: This field has not to be filled. Metadata It is here that you index a description and key-words for the article, in order to facilitate its referencing in the search engines. Once these fields filled, you can submit the article to the publication by clicking on the icon CAUTION: THIS ICON IS ON THE TOP RIGHT INTERFACE!

19 The article is then recorded, and a mail is sent to the site administrator to let him know that you have submitted an article. It is the administrator who will decide to publish or not this article on the public interface. Here is the article of our example once published and validated by the administrator:

20 3.8 - How to modify an article To edit an article, you must click on «Edit items» in order to open a new window on the public interface, where you will be identified like «publisher». Then, find the article which you wish to publish and click on the icon. You can then improve the article, which you will validate while clicking on the icon