Adding information about the college

Very similar to a Staff or News posts, the subject of the information (Accomodation, Placements, Student Support, etc.) goes in the title of the post, content in the post itself and the post must once again be labelled "Information".

Whatever you do...

Have fun?

And if you edit the blog styles/design, it'd be good to get me to have a look at the site afterwards, just to check it hasn't affected the way my code deals with the content from the site. It probably won't matter, but it's good to check...

Also, any weird stuff you notice on the site, improvements or suggestions can be sent to snark1994@gmail.com and I'll try to do them as soon as possible :)

Calendar

The site also takes information from the College calendar. I'm not sure whose job it will be to add stuff to that, but the SWBC account is in charge there as well... It's a bit more stand-alone than the blog, because it's pulled in its entirety to the site so the code I have written has nothing to do with it :)

Adding a new contributor

I'm not sure exactly who you would want to contribute to the site, but if you want them to be able to do so, then you need to go to the blogger dashboard (what you see when you sign in; I think it will also display at http://www.blogger.com/home) and click on "Settings">"Permissions">"Add authors". Authors will, I believe, have permission to add posts, edit posts (but possibly only their own posts) but not to delete them. If you have an extra-special person who you want to make an admin (anything you can do, they can do) then you can do that from the panel as well. Currently, only my (Josh) account, the SWBC account and Simon's account are admins on the blog.

Adding/editing a member of Staff's biography

Similar to a news item - the title of the post is the name of the person and their role (eg. Karen E. Smith, Tutor), and the first line is their full title (eg. Karen E. Smith, BA MDiv DPhil (Oxon), Tutor in Church History and Spirituality). Add a picture of them at the start (I don't know what happens if you don't. Death, probably. Lots of it. Or the site may just not load. Or look funny. Or nothing at all. You could try it and see?), and then their full biography. The biography can be edited to update recent publications etc. Finally, and as always, the label "Staff" must be added for the post to display.

Posting a new download

You will have to upload the file to the college Dropbox site, and then post to the blog - the title of the post is the category of the download (Newsletters, Information leaflets, etc.), the contents of the blog post should be a hyperlink to the file you have uploaded, and the post should be tagged 'Downloads'. As with all posts, it may be worth checking the SWBC site after updating the blog to check that the link works and has been put in the right place.

Posting a "news" article

As you would expect - the title of the post will be displayed on the front page of the website as a link to the full article (on the blog), and so will the first couple of words of the article. You must add the label "News" for the article in order for it to be displayed.