San Diego Indymedia Guide to Publishing
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PUBLISHING STORIES on San Diego Indymedia
1 - Go to http://sandiego.indymedia.org
2 - At the top of the (red) column on the right, click on Publish>>
(here is the direct link: http://www.indybay.org/publish.php?page_id=61 )
3 - You will be taken to a form that actually resides on the computer of another indymedia website in the San Francisco Bay area, Indybay (our webserver is temporarily down). Note that Indybay also has instructions on publishing - see the link at the top of the page ( http://www.indybay.org/publish.php?page_id=61 )
4 - Fill in the required boxes - Title, Author (feel free to use an alias), Summary of your article.
5 - Optionally add your E-mail address (click the box if you want it displayed), Web address and Article Text.
6 - If you would like to preview your story before publishing it, hit the Preview button at the bottom of the page.
7 - After making any corrections, you can now upload photos, audio files or video files. To start this process, select the number of files you want to upload, for example if you have three photos, then select 3 from the dropdown menu. If you have no files to upload, skip to step 10.
8 - Click on Enter
9 - Under upload attachments, click on browse buttons individually to select the files you want to upload. If you have more than one file, you will be required to enter a title for each file after the first and you can optionally enter text that goes with that file.
10 -After you have browsed for all the files to upload, click on Publish at the bottom of the page.
11. A page will either appear congratulating you for publishing your story or it will list some errors you need to fix. When congratulations are in order, the page will list a URL where you story has been published. It will look something like this:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/30/18457279.php
You might want to copy and save that for future reference.
------If you have uploaded video and you want to embed it in a web page - when viewing your post, a box with the code to embed the video in any (html-based) web page appears below the video. copy it and past it in to the html source code for the web page where you want it to appear, and it will.------
PUBLISHING EVENTS on San Diego Indymedia
1 - Go to http://sandiego.indymedia.org
2 - Near the top of the (red) column on the right, click on Add an Event>>
(here is the direct link: http://www.indybay.org/calendar/event_add.php?page_id=61 )
3 - You will be taken to a form that actually resides on the computer of another indymedia website in san francisco, Indybay (our webserver is temporarily down). Note that indybay also has instructions on publishing - see the link at the top of the page ( http://www.indybay.org/publish.php?page_id=61 )
4 - Fill in the required boxes - Event Title, Event Date, Event Duration, Location Details.
5 - Optionally add Event Location, Event Topic, Event Type, Contact Name and Info (Check box if to be displayed), Event Description and URL (website) with more details.
6 - If you would like to preview your event listing before publishing it, hit the Preview button at the bottom of the page.
7 - After making any corrections, you can now upload photos, audio files or video files to go with the event listing (up to 3). To start this process, select the number of files you want to upload, for example if you have two flyers, then select 2 from the dropdown menu. If you do not have any files to upload, skip to step 10.
8 - Click on Enter
9 - Under upload attachments, click on browse buttons individually to select the files you want to upload. If you have more than one file, you will be required to enter a title for each file after the first and you can optionally enter text that goes with that file.
10 - After you have browsed for all the files to upload, click on Publish at the bottom of the page.
PUBLISHING COMMENTS to stories on the San Diego Indymedia Newswire
1 - Go to http://sandiego.indymedia.org
2 - To view stories from the open publishing Newswire -- Look at the right column. You can look at older stories by scrolling down and going to the archives.
3 - Click on the title to view a story. You will be taken to the computer of another indymedia website in the san francisco bay area, Indybay, which is temporarily hosting our newswire (our webserver is temporarily down).
4 - At the bottom of each newswire story, you can click on Add a Comment
5 - You will be taken to a form similar to that for PUBLISHING STORIES (except you can only add one file to upload). Follow the instructions for PUBLISHING STORIES given above.
If you encounter any difficulties, contact us at imc-sd At lists D0t indymedia D0t org