Guest Editor Help Pack
Basically it's all yours - do what you want with the summary. I don't want to lay down loadsa rules but there is one key restriction, although you will have the privileges, please stay away from changing things via the editor only line (prefs, admin etc). It's a corporate set-up and you (like me) need to operate within that shell. Apart from that - it's up to you - the following is advice only
A few tips to help
-Try to keep pictures small (cos the RSS link to day-to-day) or ideally non-existant.
-You don't have to use the existing format (it is flexible though) - as long as all relevant blogs get a link it's fine
-Don't forget the awayguide - it doesn't update everyday but it is relevant
-Ditto the share/corporate blog
-Remember to put in your e-mail address for contact info & to tell people who you are!
-Don't rely only on "todays_updates" - it misses late (post 5pm usually) updates from the previous day. Need to use list_all as well to get full coverage
If you need help with linking, the following outlines how I do it - or you can open (as if for edit) a previous summary - that's probably easier!
To get a link in the flow of the text it needs the text here where the URL (usually pasted rather than typed) is pointing to the piece you want and the "the text here" is what you see on the page. E.g.
There's some good stuff on <a href=http://news.blogfootball.com>day by day</a> today
comes out as:
There's some good stuff on day by day today
Just need to check that each link has 2 arrows (<><>) in each direction and ends with "/a" in the final arrow bracket set
If that's a bit involved for you then you're welcome to use full URLs as links, e.g.
http://astonvilla.blogfootball.com
- just append it to the relevant blog description
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