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Registration
Use the contact to request a user account. You’ll be sent login details by e-mail.

Avatars
An avatar is an icon used to represent a person in cyberspace… To create an avatar for use across all WordPress blogs use the Gravatar service(to create a Globally Recognised Avatar), or send the image you want to use to the webmaster to have a local avatar created for you.

Posting Instructions
It might seem daunting at first, but you’ll soon find it easy. Here are the steps to post:

1. Login,
2. Write your post,
3. Set the categories and optionally add tags to your post,
4. Upload media (pictures, video, etc.),
5. Insert media into your post,
6. Set up the excerpt,
7. Optional stuff… (Date, Country) and
8. Publish.

1. Login
Login entering your username and password (both are case sensitive).
If you are already logged in, you will see a Site Admin link in place of Login.
You’ll now enter the administration area. This has a different look from the main site, a standard WordPress look, but you’ll soon get used to it.
From here you can write your post. You can also edit posts you have written perviously.

You can get back to the main site at any point by clicking aplikasi androidat the top left of any administration page.

2. Write Your Post
Simply click Add New under the  menu or click Post under the + Newmenu at the top of the page, then start off by entering the title and text of your post.

In the HTML editor have a play with the quick-tag buttons to style your post. For example you can create numbered lists (ol), bullets (ul), make text bold or italicised, create links etc. Just play about, then select Save Draft before previewing the page with Preview.

In the Visualeditor the buttons and editor work much link a simple word processor.

There’s a neat glossary feature to help readers understand specific terms; each sport has it’s own language, help readers understand with this simple shortcode:

[glossary "definition"]term[/glossary]

3. Categories
Check the categories that apply to your post. Categories are supposed to classify the sports, activities, etc. Then, optionally, set any tags you may want people to find your posts by, for example locations, animals, etc.

4. Upload Media (Pictures, Video, etc.)
A crucial step if you want to illustrate your posting. Click the  Upload/Insert icon. Drag the pictures you want to upload from your computer directly to the area highlighted Drag file here. Or click the Select Filesbutton to find the files you want to upload.

When the media has uploaded you may enter a Title, Caption, and Description – although these are not required. Click Showright of the image thumbnail to see these options.

Hints:

• Try to upload scaled images (i.e. not the full 2MB+ files straight from your camera) if you can, it’ll be muchquicker. But don’t worry if you can’t, scaled and thumbnail versions that are the right size for the blog’s pages are automatically created for you.
• Videos should always be compressed before uploading. Aim for 1 or 2MB to allow people to view your videos easily with common broadband speeds.
• You may upload more than one file at a time.

Now you can select the media to add to your post, from the Gallerytab…

5. Insert Media into Your Post
Select (Show) the media you want to insert from the tabs – Gallery (media associated with this post) or Media Library(all available media). Once selected, you’ll see some choices of how the media can be used.

Make the these choices for thumbnail images:

1. Choose an option beneath the Link URL field. Choose None in most cases, this gives no link. For thumbnails sometimes the Attachment Post URLoption is worthwhile as this will allow readers to see the image full size when they click on the thumbnail.
2. Choose Thumbnail for the Size.

Make these choices for pictures used in the main post text:

1. Choose None beneath the Link URLfield.
2. Choose your Alignment, probably Center.
3. Choose a Size – aim for a width of 600 pixels. If your upload wasn’t already scaled the Medium size should be the right choice.

Use the Insert into Postbutton to insert the media into the post text. Notice that it will insert where your cursor is positioned in the text.

Make these choices for video clips:

1. Enter this code in to your post:[video url="MOVIE_URL" width="WIDTH" height="HEIGHT"]
2. Now either, select (drag over) the MOVIE_URL in that code and use the Insert into Post button on the media popup (e.g. from the Gallerytab) to insert the media’s URL. There are no other choices to make on the popup.
3. Or, replace MOVIE_URLwith something like:http://www.aplikasiandroid.org/wp-content/uploads/yyyy/mm/THE_MOVIE.avi
4. Be careful to preserve the aspect ratio when setting the WIDTH and HEIGHT. As for images, aim for a width of about 600 pixels with a maximum of 620 pixels.

Make these choices for MP3 audio files:

1. Similarly to video, you need not make any choices for audio, just use the Insert into Postbutton to insert the media’s URL into the text.
2. Here is the simple markup code to add for audio:[audio url="MP3_URL"]

   Replace MP3_URLwith something like:

   http://www.aplikasiandroid.org/wp-content/uploads/yyyy/mm/THE_AUDIO.mp3

   You should be able to use the text inserted in step 1.

Hints:

• The maximum width of an image should be 600 pixels. Or, with the code for full page width pictures (see next point), is 700 pixels.
• To have an image across the full page width (make sure the image is the right size though; width is exactly 700 pixels), simply copy & paste this code into the post text:<div style="margin-left: -40px;"><img src='THE_IMAGE' ... /></div>

  You have to select a picture to replace THE_IMAGE. Easiest, just wrap the <img ... > from the Insert into Post step above and delete any other code.

   

• Movies can be massive files! Therefore it is essentialto scale them before uploading, a size of 480 x 320 pixels is good with mono sound and MP4 compression. Aim for less than 2MB. A few 100k is achievable with the correct MP4 settings…
• You can also embed YouTube clips using [youtube url="URL"], replacing URL with the URL for the clip. The URL should be the one that is meant for embedding – YouTube provide a Sharing button to create this.

6. Set the Excerpt Text
Excerpts are automatic with one or two simple steps.

1. The first few sentences of the main text will automatically be used as the Excerpt. However, this can be a little too long for a good teaser. So, optionally, there are two ways to make it shorter or more teasing…
   • Use the more button (HTML editor  or Visual editor ) to set the point within the body text where the Excerpt should end. Just click this button with your cursor at the point in the body text where you want the Excerpt to stop. It will insert <!-- more -->.
   • Hand-craft a teaser in the Excerpt box.
2. Use the link  next to the Insert into Post button, Use as featured image, when uploading images to automatically set the thumbnail for this post. When you get back to the Add New Post page you’ll notice the Featured Image box also shows that thumbnail.

There’s a post that gives more detail here.

7. Optional Stuff
Here are a couple of other things you may want to do, all are optional…

• Set the date of your post (suggest to the date of your walkhtrough) by clicking on Edit next to the Publish item top right. This defaults to Publish immediately, so if you are quick about posting your walkthrough you’ll be able to accept the default.
  Note that posts can be scheduled for posting by entering a date in the future.
• Set a Platform the game can be played
• You may also provide a link to the source.
• A number of posts may be grouped into a Series by choosing a series in the Post Series box

8. Publish to the WWW!
All article will be reviewed by admin before published, You can also Save Draft of your work and come back later to complete it.