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Quick reminders of critical steps in using Manila.

Stop the Email Messages (when adding stories or pictures)
This setting might be different depending on the theme you have selected for your site. Here are the steps to turning off the email notification feature:
  1. Log in to your site as a managing editor
  2. Choose the Editor's Only > Prefs link
  3. Click the Editorial link on the left
  4. Scroll to the Email Notification section
  5. Click the No radio buttons in this section
  6. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Submit
Remember that punctuation counts in adding links to stories in Manila. It is critical that your story, picture, gem and shortcut titles are in double quotes and that the commas or periods be outside the right quote. Here is an example. See "Class Policies," or visit my Class Policies, page for details.

I've been writing stories in the HTML view lately and have created some paragraph tags and line break tags. I've noticed that when the <p> tag is used there can be a font size shift in the following text. I'm guessing this has to do with CSS - cascading style sheets. I don't know what to change at that level so I just use two <br><br> tags.

Did you copy and paste from Microsoft Word with crazy results? Here are two suggestions:
  1. Copy the text from Word and paste into a new NotePad (Windows) or Text Edit (Macintosh) document.
  2. Need fancy formatting? Try saving the Word document as a Web Page and then use Textism to clean it up! http://textism.com/wordcleaner/ At this site you will browse your hard drive to the Word-As-Web-File and then Textism will clean-out the extraneous code. Remember to select the Source radio button under the text box so you can paste the HTML code into your story.

    3. Whichever option you use, consider writing a note about this in your journal story. If you will be using Textism, consider making it a new shortcut for easy access in the future!

Did you lose your home page?
Your home page is the first page in your site (About is page 2). So try adding this text at the end of your site URL
/stories/storyReader$1
Is this your home page? If it is, then you might edit the site URL to have this phrase to edit your home page
/discuss/edit/editInBrowser$1

The numbers might be different in your site, especially if you've deleted stories and experimented. I'm still learning about how Manila tracks the home page. Watch for updates.

Need to update your story titles?
After updating a story title I expected to see the change automatically appear as I updated the "reference text" in other stories. But no. After some research, I found that that Manila creates stories with a reference number. This always remains in effect until the story is deleted. So a title is just a friendly way of creating links between stories. Each story has an automatic Shortcut created as well. So delete the original Shortcut and the new reference/title text will work after the server recycles in 60 minutes.

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