This article is designed to tell you everything you need to know about submitting an article to the web site.  The steps are basically as follows:

1. Log in to the web site (only AAQ Members can submit articles).
2. Click the "Submit Article" link on the User Menu.
3. Give the article a title.
4. Add the text.
5. Allocate it to publishing categories.
6. Save the article.

I assume you already know how to log on, so let's start at step 2...

Starting the Submission Process

To start, you need to click the "Submit Article" link.  This is in the User Menu which appears on the right hand side of your browser window. Note that only registered members can submit articles, so you must be logged in to access this feature.

Using the Editor Window

When you have done this, you will be shown the article editing window, as shown below.

The article editor has several key parts, working down the page:

1. At the top is a field in which must type the title of the article.  Try to key this concise and yet interesting enough to attract people to read the article.
2. On the right, there are two buttons, Save and Cancel, which are pretty self-explanatory.  More on saving later.
3. There is then a panel which contains all the editing controls.  You can hover your mouse over a button to see what it does.
4. Then comes the panel into which you can type your text.  There are lots of special items that you can put here, which will be discussed later.
5. Lastly, there are a number of special links which allow you to add specific items to the content.  Once more, these will be discussed later.

Below the main part of the window are a number of other fields that describe the article you have written, as shown below:

This part of the window controls how the article is published and defined information about the article that can be used to find the article later.  These fields include:

1. The Section and Category - these must be selected from the lists provided, and allow you to place the article into the most relevant part of the web site.  Note that in our case, the term "Section" does NOT mean an AAQ Section!!
2. There is an option to mark an article as published or not.  This will be controlled by Publisher members.
3. You can also mark an article to be published on the Front Page of the site.  This should be reserved for special articles.
4. An author alias can be used when you want to show the name of a Council position rather than your own name, or if you have more than one person responsible for writing the article.
5. Publishing dates allow you to control when an article can be seen.  You can set a start date on any article that you want embargoed until a particular time, and also an end date for event related articles.
6. The access level allows you to restrict the visibility of an article.  Normally, articles will be Public, but if an article is only intended for AAQ members, use Registered.  "Special" means that only administartors can see the article.
7. Finally, you can add a short description about the article, and a couple of keywords.  These are used by search engines and other parts of the site to automatically create links.