How to submit an Article or Story
Submitting an Article or Story to TinToTa
This is a short tutorial for those new to online publishing (apologies if this is a bit basic for you).
There are two ways to add a new article or story to TinToTa.
First login using the Username you chose when registering and the Password you were sent by email.
Then either, use the QuickPress box on the far right of the window.
Just type your Title and Content into the appropriate boxes, add a few Tags (so that people, search-engines etc. can find it) and click Publish. You could also save it as a Draft and finish it later…
…or, Click Add New on the far left under Posts.
This will open up a more comprehensive Editor with more tools
and facilities to format your content including choosing appropriate
categories, popular tags, preview etc. Click Publish when ready.
Also under Post on the left side of the window, clicking Edit will allow you to amend or re-write your previous entries or finish Draft articles that have not yet been published.
Clicking the Media tab will allow you to upload pictures, video, music files for incorporation in your articles.
Clicking Comments will allow you to view comments made to your articles
and let you approve or delete those you don’t approve.
Clicking Profile will allow you to change any of your personal details and
change things like your password to something more memorable.
Additional useful utilities can be found under the Tools section.
Logout in the top right corner of the window.
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You can type the text directly into a text editor on the page as already mentioned or plan and write your article/story in your favourite wordprocessor or text editor off-line and then place it into the online editor when you are ready.
Using the off-line method.
First plan your article.
Use your wordprocessor or text editor to write a brief synopsis of your story.
Expand it and edit it until you are happy with it. Don’t forget to save it to your hard drive as you go along in case you make a mistake or hit a wrong key and lose your latest additions.
When you are ready to publish log into Tintota and click the ‘Add New’ button under Post to the left of your screen.
Copy the text from your wordprocessor screen by highlighting the text with your mouse and clicking Copy or pressing Ctrl & the C key. Next move back to Tintota and paste your story into the edit window using Ctrl & the V key.
If it is plain text, from say Notepad or similar, you can copy/paste it straight in to the editing window. If you have composed it in MS Word than click the small yellow button with the ‘‘W” on it. A window will open for you to copy/paste your story into. This takes out any unwanted codes present in the Word document which may ultimately upset the formatting in your submission. If your story is from a web-page then click the yellow button with the ‘T’ on it, this will again eliminate any unwanted codes embedded in the text. Your other formatting should still remain intact.
Now you can alter the formatting of the text using the various tools on the toolbar above the edit window.
Don’t forget to add a Title.
Oh! And choose a Catagory (ie. Stories, Fiction, Poems, Support).
Then, when you are happy click ‘Publish‘.
There you are done.
Time to start thinking about your next article/story.
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