Submittng an Event Writeup for approval

You must be logged into the site for this function to be visible from the Events page.

The events writeup pages were created to allow NorthWest Z members to easily and quickly create write-ups and post pictures of NorthWest Z events. This type of writeup has many advantages over posting to the forum. It stores a permanent record that is easy to write and upload pictures to as a historical record of the club.

To add a write-up to the NorthWest Z website, there are basically 4 steps involved.

I highly suggest writing your text in an external editor such as Word or Notepad first then copying and pasting it into the text window just in case the site has a glitch or you step away and the site logs you out in the middle of writing your story. This way you will not lose what you worked so hard to get in writing.

Once the writeup is posted send an email to the officers or webmaster for approval. This step helps stop the site from being heavily spammed. Once the writeup and pictures are approved and live, just go to the event writeup section, go to your event and copy the contents of the address bar, then send an email with the address you copied on the email to the group list, and/pr post the link in the forum section to make it easy for people to view it.

Here are the steps, after you have logged and found the Post a Writeup link on the Events page.

1. Upload pictures
First, you'll upload the pictures of the event. These can be in JPEG, GIF, or PNG format. The maximum size for images is 640 x 480 pixels, pictures larger than this will be automatically resized. The quality may be better if you resize them yourself, however be patient as this can take some time especially of you have high res photos that have not been reduced in size.
2. Create the text or paste it from your external editor.
3. Click on the thumbnails for the photos that you uploaded to enable them to display. This seems redundant but you will see that it adds the text that actually tells the photos to display. This method has an advantage in that you can place the photos after the text concerning that photo if you would like by placing the cursor after the last line of that portion before clicking the thumbnail for the appropriate photo. Be careful not to click a thumbnail more than once as the photo will just repeat. No worries though as you can edit them out at the end if you do this.
4. Administrator Approval
Last, but not least, send an email or otherwise contact an officer or website administrator so they know to approve your write-up and it will then be added to the NorthWest Z website.

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