Portsmouth IVC

A: Come along to a few events starting with one of our weekly club nights to see what you think. We have a temporary membership system, where you can enjoy all the benefits of being a club member for 2 months for only £5. We will give you a “passport to membership” booklet that shows you who we are and the ground rules (nothing burdensome) and allows you to log which events you have been to.If after two months, you decide to join, fill out the membership form in the “passport to membership” and send it to the membership secretary with the appropriate fee to become full member.

A: See the guide to Activity Exchange.

Please think about what you write:

• Sell the event – members have other commitments, if you want them to come to your event you have to make it enticing
• Visibility – Who should see the event?
  • Public – non-members can see all the details (you probably shouldn’t use this for things in people’s houses)
  • Private – members can see all the details, non-members can only see the public description
  • Hidden – only members can see any details of the event (it’s unlikely that you want this – we want prospective members to know we have events on)
• Put the postcode for the venue in the map-ref box, ActivityExchange will produce a link to a map showing people the location of the event – remember a lot of people will be new to the area and not know from the address or name of the venue where it is.
• Contact details – let people get hold of you if they have questions

Note: The details you provide on Activity Exchange will be used by Bulletin Editor verbatim to produce the details of your event in the Bulletin, they will also be seen by any other IVCs that you invite and by the general public.  Please spell check what you write, use good grammar and provide lots of detail.  The committee reserves the right to correct or amend event details that are poorly written, but we would rather not have to.

A: Use this website, we do support pictures, downloadable booking forms, colours, fonts etc.

Create a posting on this website for your event with all the bells and whistles you want. Fill in the information about your event on ActivityExchange (don’t forget to sell your event on here as this may be the place people find out about your event first). In your event details on ActivityExchange include a link to your posting on here. Hint: when you create your posting on here you will see a line under the title starting permalink: that is the URL that you paste into ActivityExchange.

Q: How do I Login to the website?

A: You will need a username and password (if you don’t have one see the webmaster).
At the bottom of the menu running down the side of every page on the website is a section titled “Meta”, the first option of which is either “Login” or “Site admin”. If it says “Site admin” you are already logged in, otherwise click it and enter your username and password.

Q: How do I add an article to the website?

A: Login, then follow these instructions.

Q: How do I add photos to my article?

A: Above the text entry box where you type in your article there is a line that starts “Upload/Insert”. The first icon is “Add and image”, click that and you will get a dialogue box to pick the file(s) you want to upload.

(Please resize your photos to be less than 600 pixels wide – we have limited memory and disk capacity on the webserver, plus they will interfere with the menus down the side of the page)

Once the picture has uploaded you will get a new dialog where you can give the picture a caption, choose the size of the image and how you want the text to flow around it and most importantly a button “Insert into post”, click that and the picture will be inserted into your article.

If you don’t like the options you have chosen, clicking on the image in the editor panel will give you a couple of buttons to edit the image or delete it (from the post, it is still there on the server).

If you want to reuse your own or somebody else’s picture, then use the “media library” tab on the image upload dialogue. Click on “Show” next to the picture in the list, set the size and text wrap you want, then click “Insert into post”.

Q: How do I add my photos to the slideshow on the photos page?

A: Login. at the bottom of the left hand menu bar on the dashboard is a “Gallery” section, click on “Add Gallery / Images”

Click on the “Upload images” tab, select the file(s) you want to upload and select “1-Activities” from the drop-down list for “in to”, then click the “Upload Images button”.

Note that any oversize images will be resized to no more than 800×600.