1.Go to the “Write” tab and make sure “Post” is highlighted.
2.Type in your Title for the post.
3.Underneath the Title is the section where you type in your post. You will notice there are formatting buttons similar to those in word processing programs such as Microsoft Word. If you need more formatting options than those shown, click on “Kitchen Sink” at the end of the row. This will bring up more formatting options.
4.At any time while you are writing your post you can preview how it will look when posted. Save first by clicking on the “Save” button then click on “Preview this Post”
5.The preview will then open in a new tab or window.
6.If you do not want your post to be posted immediately, you can select a future date and time for the post to be published on the right hand side of the screen under Publish Status.
7.Once you have your post the way you want it, scroll down below “Post” to Tags.
8.Tags are keywords describing the content of your post. Tags are important to include so that search engines can find your post as well as allowing other members and visitors of e-Commons to find your post. A typical number of tags per post are 10.
9.Below Tags is Category. The category is a higher level of classification than tags. There is usually only one category per post.
10.Below Category are the advanced options. You will probably not use Excerpt, Trackbacks, or Custom Fields.
11.Comments and Pings allows you to choose if other e-Commons members can leave comments about your post while Pings show other sites that have linked to your post.
12.Password Protect your Post allows you to set a password that must be used to view the post.
13. Post Revisions shows all the revisions to the post. These can be useful if you decide to rollback a post to a previous revision.
14.Now you are ready to publish your post. Click on Publish and your post will now appear in your workroom.
15.If you would like to add other media, such as photos, to your post, position the cursor where you would like the media within the post. Then click on the “Add Media” button.
16.Click on “Choose Files to Upload” button.
17.Navigate to the file you would like to upload on your computer and highlight the file.
18.While the file is being uploaded the window will say, “crunching”. Once this is completed you can add a title, caption, and description to the media file. You can also specify the alignment of the media and the size of the file shown.
19.Then click “Insert into post”.
20.The media file will then be inserted into the post.
21.You can also type your post in Microsoft Word and click on the “Paste from Word” icon in the second row. Highlight the text of the word document, copy; then in e-Commons, press CTRL-V to paste the text into the box. Then click “Insert” to insert into the post.