These tutorials will walk you through creating and editing basic content at our site.
As an author, you are able to create and edit various types of content (blogs, images, events, etc) and add information to the Things to Do and Area Information sections.
MokeHill.com is a lot of things: content management system…collaborative community website…database driven website…dynamic site… Basically, the site is driven by a database back-end that can hold all of our information, and then “serve” it to the user or visitor depending upon what they’ve asked for.
The site is designed to allow for collaboration in content development – hence your role as Site Author, or Moderator, or Developer. You’re part of the team developing this site. No HTML or web development knowledge is necessary – everything is done within the context of the site, from within your web browser. You can’t really break anything – you might post something with a typo in it, but you can edit the content and fix it very easily, so even that isn’t much to worry about.
As a content management system, this entire website is database driven. So it's best to stop thinking about "web pages" when it comes to this site - most of the content is contributed as "nodes," small snippets of information that appear in the proper place(s) on the site. For example, let's track one small piece of information:
If you create an Event, here are all the places that it shows up:
1. On the Calendar. If you click on the calendar to view a month, just the title of your event will show up on the appropriate day.
2. As a daily report. If you click on that day on the calendar, your information will appear on a page with all the other events for that day. All the content you entered will be visible.
3. And finally, its own "page" view. The entire information that was put in as your event can be viewed on its very own page in its entirety if you click the heading on the daily view.
This all happens automatically; you don't have to enter it more than once. Neat!
Another important note about contacting people through our site: All email addresses are protected to frustrate the spam-bots. So if you contact someone via this site, using their Contact form on their User Profile (or via one of the Contact the Author links, etc), the site will forward it to their email address without having to use a mail system, etc. This also means you can contact someone without using mail software (from a cafe computer, etc.)
A pretty nifty thing that this site is designed to do: every time the top header refreshes (whether you simply click a link or the refresh button), the image will change. The order is totally random. Better than neat! (Thanks, Dennis!)
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