Adding articles - step by step

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Adding articles on Star Wars Extreme is very simple. There are two ways to reach the subpage responsible for this functionality of our portal. But first you need to be sure that you are logged - information regarding your status is displayed in a box placed in the upper right corner of the homepage.

After you make sure that you are logged, you just have to click "Add an article" (which is also visible in that box) or click "My account" and then choose "Add an article" from your account subsection. They will both take you to the right place.

After you open the subpage which allows you to add an article, you have to input the basic information about the text, which you want to add to the database. These are:

Section - here you choose the main section, to which you want to add your article. You have to choose from:
- News - whenever something interesting happens, you can find it all here.
- Variety - it is a place for flash games and video clips such as music videos, fan films or trailers.
- Articles - these are usually the reviews, columns and short stories.
- Community - here you can find information about different fan websites and fan projects.
Category - choose the category, which best fits the topic of your article.
Title of the article - it should be short, but also have a direct connection with the subject of your text; do not write titles such as "Sth funny" or "Check this out!", as they do not qualify and will be changed by the moderator.
Add article’s picture - upload a picture from your own database, which will then form a miniature visible next to the article’s title. The miniature’s size is 199 x 112 pixels - it has to be the minimal size of a picture which you wish to upload. Of course you can upload much larger pictures, which will then be automatically rescaled, but you should remember to keep the scale of 199-112 (eg. 1024 x 574 is perfectly acceptable). Please upload the pictures of the highest possible quality whenever you can.
Shortened content of the article - write a short information about your text. You can use up to 250 marks and if you write more than that, it will be cut appropriately. You can also leave this space empty and then it will be automatically filled by first 250 marks of the text.
Full content of the article - this is the place for your article (without the title). There are some rules which you have to follow while formatting the content of the text.
- Paragraphs - each text on our website consists of paragraphs. They divide it so that it is easier to read. You can make them by simply pressing the ‘enter’ button twice.
- Bold and italics - you must use both the bold letters and the italics to write titles of movies, books, comics and so forth (e.g. Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica). Italics are also used when we put foreign words or foreign quotes into the text. We do not use italics when quoting phrases written in English.
- Pictures - you can make the text more interesting by adding pictures (apart from the one used as a miniature). You can add them by using [img]address-of-the-picture[/img]. Remember, however, to put them between the paragraphs and separate them with one free line.
- Breaking the text - you can break the text into two or more pages with

(like in this example) if you think it is too long for a single page. Remember to put the

just as you would put the picture, between the paragraphs.

Files of the article - you can add a file to your text. Following filename extensions are allowed: pdf, doc, odt, xls and ppt. A file cannot be larger than 2 MB.

Language of the article - you have to specify to which language version of our website your text should be attributed. In your case it will probably be "angielski" which means "English".

Tags - here you put the keywords connected with your article. These are usually the names of characters, places, titles of different works, real-life people, companies etc. that you mention in your text. It is a good idea to add as many tags as possible. Everything except the proper names should be written in a plural form, eg. "games", "starships", "stormtroopers" or "lightsabers". Also, do not forget to add tags indicating the type of text you are writing (like "reviews"). Note that we have a system of suggestions. When you put at least two marks you will be able to see all the similar tags previously used somewhere on our website.

After you do all of that, just click "Add an article" button on the bottom of the page. After that you will be able to edit the article in the "My articles" subpage by clicking on the pencil icon. You can also delete it from that location. These two things, edits and deletes, can only be done to the article which has not been published yet - and by "published" we mean that the article has been moderated and approved by us and is now visible on the website. When that happens, you permanently lose the ability to edit or delete your text.

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