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Procedure to set up a new post:
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2.0 Open the new post editor. Use the following hyperlinks to access the appropriate editor:
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2.1 If you are copying a post from another blog or from microsoft word – ctrl-c the text and paste into the paste editors in the associated blogs:
2.2 If you are copying from another econintersect post, instead 2.1 above – you may shift to HTML mode (in post the original and new posts) and copy the html of the original post to the new post. Shift back to WYSIWYG mode.
2.3 Make pretty (or get format roughly similar to the original document or post)
b2evolution editor:
3.0 Finishing touches on post – Econintersect formating rules:
- the only acceptable HTML code in any blog <br><li><ol><a><ul><em><strong><blockquote><h><img><p><span><iframe>
- the <div> command is a no-no
3.3 Thumbnail pictures
3.4 <!–more–>
- This command separates content. All content before the more goes out in feeds, newsletters, facebook. It shows up as a hyperlinked “read more”.
- Look at our landing page. These are examples of typically the amount of content we have before the <more>. We try to tease the reader to click on read more.
- The more can be inserted manually, or inserted using the editors:
- You cannot leave an open <html> command. you need to check the html to make sure all commands (other than </p> are closed (e.g </span>, </ul>….)
- the author list inserts
- blah,blah
3.6 graphics (procedure when posting in b2evolution)
- upload new graphic
- copy the image location (either by right clicking on the graphic and storing image location or by copying the image location shown)
4.0 Style Guide Instructions for Excerpts
All excerpts follow these specific style guidelines:
1. All use <blockquote> to define the excerpt.
2. An excerpt that contains an excerpt of its own will use nested <blockquote>.
3. All excerpts are in italics.
4. Quotes contained within an excerpt (along with other text) is also bold in addition to italics.
5. Excerpts containing only the words within a quote is italics only (no bold).
6. Words added within an excerpt for context are not italicized.
Examples:
A. Wrong:
[The] power panel in question … was exposed to the weather while left on the back of the vehicle.
Correct:
[The] power panel in question … was exposed to the weather while left on the back of the vehicle.
B. Wrong:
Prof. Masanori Aritomi of Tokyo Institute of Technology said, “Due to the recent strong wind, seawater and sand from the nearby beach might have been blown into the power panel.”
“Salt in the sand and seawater could have caused the power panel to short out,” the reactor engineering expert added.
Correct:
Prof. Masanori Aritomi of Tokyo Institute of Technology said, “Due to the recent strong wind, seawater and sand from the nearby beach might have been blown into the power panel.”
“Salt in the sand and seawater could have caused the power panel to short out,” the reactor engineering expert added.
C. Wrong:
Prof. Masanori Aritomi of Tokyo Institute of Technology said:
“Due to the recent strong wind, seawater and sand from the nearby beach might have been blown into the power panel.”
Correct:
Prof. Masanori Aritomi of Tokyo Institute of Technology said:
“Due to the recent strong wind, seawater and sand from the nearby beach might have been blown into the power panel.”
Note: The difference between B. and C.:
In B. the entire set of words is an excerpt from another source; In C. the excerpt is only the quote.
D. Wrong:
According to the New York Times the story is complicated:
Canada seems to be upset with its larger neighbor because of the U.S. actions. From the Toronto Argonaut:
Prime Minister Smith said:
“The U.S. was wrong to sink our entire Navy.”
Correct:
According to the New York Times the story is complicated:
Canada seems to be upset with its larger neighbor because of the U.S. actions. From the Toronto Argonaut:
Prime Minister Smith said:
“The U.S. was wrong to sink our entire Navy.”
Note: Because the only words in the third <blockquote> are a quotation there is no bold. If the example was given with only two <blockquotes> it might have been worded as follows:
According to the New York Times the story is complicated:
Canada seems to be upset with its larger neighbor because of the U.S. actions. From the Toronto Argonaut:
Prime Minister Smith said, “The U.S. was wrong to sink our entire Navy.”
Note: Whenever possible the choice should be made to use the extra <blockquote> construction rather than the bold font to distinguish the quotation.
Note: There are often extra lines inserted around <blockquote> codes which must be removed by editing the html. These can have such forms as <p> </p>, <br/>, <em> </em> and <span> </span>. These extra lines cannot be removed in WYSIWYG mode.
Getting Started at Econintersect
We use a number of software tools. Here are things that you should have available to work with:
Notepad (or any similar plain text editor) – This used to strip unwanted html code from incoming material.
KompoZer – Probably any html editor will do but this is the only one that we or any of our intern helpers have used. The program can be downloaded for free here.
An internet connection and a computer. a smart phone with an idea sim card is good enough to trip all the gateways into our website and government agencies. Econintersect will reimburse for the usage costs of your internet connection for fees related to your work at Econintersect.
All that is required on this job is an effort to continually improve. I do not want to hear that you cannot do something, only that you want to learn how to do it (positive “can do” attitude). We will train.
Job activities could include:
- set up articles written by others (this process is currently being automated but will still requires human touches – some knowledge of html necessary but can be learned as you go)
- contribute to, or write original content
- set up and publish economic releases based on preformatted posts, automatic computer generated graphs, and extracting content from government releases
- be the point man in India – providing content from this perspective.
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