Washington Area Frisbee Club

Creating a new announcement on the website only requires a few steps unless you need to customize something.

1. Required, make sure you're logged into the site and your privileges allow you to see the Create content link under the Go To... menu
2. Required, click once on Create content to expand that menu
3. Required, click Announcement on the Create content menu
4. Required, provide a Title for the new post
5. Optionally, enter a few tags to help people find the content using the search feature (tags should be separated by commas and should be fairly consistent across the site, e.g., try to use website instead of web site)
6. Optionally, change the language from neutral to another available language
7. Required, enter the meat of the new announcement in the Body section of the post, double check your settings to make sure you're using the rich text editor if you want fancy formatting, and that the Input Format is correct (using an incorrect input format can cause formatting problems), normally just use Filtered HTML as the input format, Full HTML if you need to do more custom formatting
8. Optionally, attach images to the post, these could also be embedded in the Body section
9. Optionally, change the notification settings for the post
10. Optionally, change the revision information to create a new revision (this is useful when editing a previous post)
11. Optionally, assign a specific URL to the post (normally leave this as automatic
12. Optionally, change the comment settings for the post
13. Optionally, change the authoring information for the post
14. Optionally, change the publishing options (useful to if you're drafting a post and don't want it published right away)