Help
Welcome to the help documentation for the Nubian Health Network website. Here you can find help, tutorials and tips for using the site.
Problems?
If you run into trouble, please read or search this help documentation first. If you're really stuck, you can contact a site editor or administrator one of several ways:
Contact via e-mail
Some members of the site may choose to allow others to send them an e-mail.
Click on a member's name to access their account page, then click the contact tab to send an e-mail. Note that you will see the contact tab only if the user has chosen to allow contact via e-mail.
Website contacts page
You can also send a message to the site staff via the feedback page.
Your account
Information on your account and profile.
Important account details
To log in to the site you will need a username and a password. Your username can be anything reasonable, short, easy to remember and easy to associate with your person. Eg, a username could be ‘jbloggs’ or ‘Joe Bloggs’.
Your profile
There are certain settings you may be able and would like to change. These are available to you by clicking the ‘my account’ link when you are logged in.
The main profile page lists some information about your account:
- Member for - shows how long you have been registered with the site;
- Details - name, position and some other miscellaneous information.
Editing your profile
You can change your profile by clicking on the edit tab. Here you can also choose whether to allow others to contact you via the site (the contact tab).
Changing your password
Enter your new password twice in order to change it:
This will take effect as soon as you log off your current session.
Contact form
You can also choose whether to be contacted via e-mail and the contact tab. A user can send an e-mail to you via the site, and you will be able to reply using your favourite e-mail client.
Your e-mail address is not publically visible until you reply to the sender via your usual e-mail program.
For more information on how users are placed into groups and roles, please read the documentation on Website users. (LINK)
Managing content
Adding and editing content: the basics
Adding content
Log in to the site. If you a priveleged member or editor, you should see a link named ‘create content’ in the navigation menu underneath your username. Click this, then click on the type of page you want to add. In this example we’ll add an article or story in the Cricket section. Click on the ‘story’ link. (TEXT/CAT/LINK)
You’ll be presented with a form for adding an article, with a number of fields to fill in. Some of these fields are required and are indicated with a red asterisk: *
For an article, you’ll need to enter a Title and some text in the Body field.
Next, select a category for your article from the drop-down list labelled Articles. These categories are customisable, and you can even add a new category whilst editing your story: see the tutorial on Managing categories.
You can use images is your article: see the tutorial on Working with images in articles (LINK).
When you’re done, you can preview your article, or submit it immediately. Preview will allow you to check the page as you’d see it on the site before actually posting it. Both ‘Preview’ and ‘Submit’ will do some checking on your article, and display a warning if something needs changing.
Errors and warnings If there is a problem with your article, a warning will appear in a red box at the top of the post when you preview or submit. The warnings should be clear, and the field that contains the error will also be highlighted in red:
Amend your field, and click the Preview button to re-check your article.
Editing content
You will be able to edit your own content once it has been posted, and admins and editors will be able to edit most posts.
Publishing and promoting content
Publishing
When an article or page is marked ‘Published’, then it is visible to all users of the site, depending on permissions. Pages should be left un-published (ie deselect the ‘Published’ check box) if the article is work in progress or is not yet deemed suitable for viewing on the site.
Of course, only admins and editors can approve content, so if you are a member submitting an article you will not see publish options. Simply submit your article as normal, and it will automatically be set to be un-published. The editors will read and review your submission and publish the article if it meets all their requirements.
Please remember to check your typing/spelling and grammar before posting. The ‘preview’ button is there for a reason! You could also cut and paste your text into a word processor to run an automatic spell check.
Sticky posts ‘Sticky’ posts are normal posts that get shunted to the top of the list regardless of its publish or authored date. This is useful for important notices or favourite reads.
Make a post sticky by checking the box labelled ‘Sticky at top of lists’:
Promoting content to the front page If you, as an editor or admin, feel a post is worthy of being posted on the front page, you can easily do so by checking the box labelled 'Promoted to front page':
Managing categories
All the categories on the site can be edited and moved around. For example, a new photo gallery or article section could be created.
Using the admin section to manage categories
Administrators and editors only
Advanced managing of categories can be done in the ‘categories’ section of the admin menu.
Click on ‘administer’, then ‘categories’. You will be presented with a list of all the vocabularies and categories on the site. Vocabularies are the containers for a set of categories - eg Articles is a vocabulary containing all the article categories.
On the administer categories page, you will see (from left to right):
- Name - the vocabulary or category name;
- Node types - the types of page which can be placed in this vocabulary.
- Operations
- edit vocabulary - change the name, node types and structure of the vocabulary.
- add term - add a new term or category to this vocabulary
- preview form - preview the category selection form as you’d see it when adding or editing a page.
Categories are very powerful when set up correctly. They can provide a structured index for your content, as well as allowing for related pages and searching. Some advanced information on categories can be found here.
Website users
Users of this site are broken into roles:
- anonymous (ie not logged in to the site);
- members
- moderators
- admins
Each role has its own permissions, allowing editors and admins to have increasingly greater control over the content of the site.
For example, a member can submit content to the site, then an admin or editor needs to approve the post and publish it to the site.
Registration to the site is also subject to approval by the admins. (IS IT?)
Nubian Health Network Website Administrators
Nubian Health Network Website Moderators
RSS Feeds
The Nubian Health Network website provides support for RSS news feeds for all its main news page and the article categories.
What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and is used to compile a list of posts from a website’s database, which provides customised ‘news feeds’ or notifications which users of a website can view in order to quickly see what is new on a site, without actually visiting the site itself. Subscribing to an RSS feed means you can be notified of the most recent posts, events and articles via a desktop application of your choice. Click here for more technical info on RSS.
Viewing RSS Feeds
There are several ways to view RSS feeds. Some web browsers and e-mail clients support it, such as:
You can also read RSS feeds in separate applications, such as Serence Klipfolio. You’ll need the Klipfolio Feed Viewer to view RSS feeds. Plus, I’m sure there’s loads more RSS readers out there.
Our feeds
Our main page feed:
http://www.nubianhealthnetwork.org/rss.xml
This feed contains everything that is posted to the front page of the site.
Also, each category comes with its own RSS feed. For example, click on the Cricket (CAT/LINK!) section, and you will see an orange XML icon like this:
That icon links directly to the feed for the category you are currently viewing. Depending on what you use to read RSS, copying that link into your RSS application will allow you to read items in that category.