How To Write Your Kiter Blog

I suggest you print this page as a reference while learning how to write your blog.

Getting Started
Firstly you must log in.
Hit the yellow "My Weblog" link on the top menu.
Then the blue "Write a new page" link.

This opens up a text box for your to write in.
You can set your Weblog to private or public viewing when you first start it.
This can be done by checking the: Advertize this page ? Yes, No options.

Write your Blog text.
You can also insert some images to spice it up, and your away.
Hit the Submit button at the bottom of the page and you are done.
You can pop back and edit your Kiter Blog anytime.
Or start a new one for each adventure.

If you just want to practise you can log in as a test user.
As we set up a dummy user name and password as a play zone for newbies only. (All test user blogs will be cleared each week)

Newbies test account (Password is case sensitive):
Username:TEST
Password: test

Any questions, just ask. You can use the live shout box for that anytime!

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Spicing up your Blog!
Adding Images...

To insert an image in your Kiter Blog, hit the blue "Add My Pictures" link at the bottom left of the text entry box.
It is not so obvious the fist time you use it, but the little Green icon with an arrow (if you click it) will add the thumbnail code for the image into your blog.

The thumbnail code looks like this:


And appears in your blog like this:



Click on the image and it opens the full size version.

If you want to add a full size image to your blog while in the "My files" section rather than clicking the Green icon you can click the which will paste the full sized image.

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Spicing up your Blog! Continued
Extra Commands and formatting...

You can easily access a whole range of formatting commands by hovering your mouse over the bbcode menu above the text entry box. Here are commands such as bold, italic and underlined.

Every command that is used must have an open and a close to it so that all the text in your page is not formatted.

Example of opening and closing command code:



For people wanting to add text wrapping to image thumbnails this can also be done easily. If you hover over the bbcode blue icon (4th icon from the right) you will see Column Left and Column Right. If you click one of these then add the thumbnail code in between the commands and the text outside of the [command] the text will 'wrap' around the image, sounds complicated but heres what it looks like.

Example of the colleft code with thumbnail code:



Here you can see the command:



Here is an example of what text wrapping looks like:


Now we can have
Line
after line
after line of text wraping down the right of the image.
Nice photo of Justin Cookson charging up at Rangiputa NZ.

Cool eh!

Have fun and feel free to contact us if you need any help.