The History Project - Editing Articles and Graphics

Editing Articles and Graphics

Editing is easy.

Text

Editing text is easy.

Graphics

Adding graphics is easy.

Composition

Composition is easy.

Unlike editing in a word processor, the system is adapted to "fit" into generally available web browsers and to build up pages from components (text, graphics...). The editing tools include predefined templates that let you choose layouts. Advanced editors can then modify the layouts to suit themselves. Positioning, color, font choice and many other options are built into the system. Experts can even embed video Javascripts* and Java* applets.

For example, with very few exceptions, this entire site is "HTML-free" from the standpoint of the input of text and graphics. We just typed the text into the forms and uploaded the graphics in the same way. Then we told the system to "push" the graphics left, right, up and down.

For this component of this page, we wrapped the text in a "container" and told the system to center the title and make the text "brown" (a standard HTML color that is rendered by your local browser). Finally, we set the container around the text to 90 percent of the page width. You may not love the result; neither do we. Don't worry if you don't yet understand all this; help is built in, and with a couple of hours' practice your site will reflect your own sense of design.

Did we mention that it's all very easy?

Sample view of the Editing Suite, with preview window in background and online help window in foreground.

Editing

The pages of your site are built up with components that contain text, graphics, links...

To add text, you'll either type directly into the forms or copy and paste from another application.

To add graphics, just browse your disk to identify the prepared graphic and click a button to upload it.

Once the text and graphics are on the page, you can move them around by simply clicking arrow buttons in the control bar that accompanies each component.

Learning to use the Editing Suite's basic features takes only about an hour. An experienced computer user can master the entire system in a day or two of use.

Some pages are built with "tools" for managing standard layouts and contents of your site(s). For example there are image gallery and timeline tools and a document manager for organizing articles.

Support

Technical support for project managers is as near as your email. We considered using the telephone, but then we got to thinking about the oxymoron history emergency and decided against it. See the Support page for details.

Technical Support Overview: Click the link to learn how The History Project provides technical and creative support to editors.

"Sitemaker" is a service mark of Clark Internet Publishing when applied to an integrated system for the management of text and graphics in a database-driven web site and editing suite.