How To Add A Message

  • Click the Discussion link in the main menu of your website.
  • Click the Add Message button near the top of the discussion webpage.
  • In the Topic field enter the topic of your message. This field is optional if you are attaching an image or file to your message.
  • In the Content field enter the content of your message. This field is optional if you are attaching an image or file to your message.
  • Select the markup language for your content in the Markup popup menu. (X)HTML also works for plain text or if the field will be empty.
  • In the Image or File field select a image or other file type from your computer. These fields are optional.
  • In the Tags field enter tags related to the topic and content of your message. This field is optional. See also How To Add Tags To A Message.
  • In the Url field enter a url if your message pertains to a URL on the web such as a news story, weblog entry, etc. which later will be marked as a weblog entry. This field is optional.
  • In the Relative Url field enter a relative url if you want your message to be a webpage on your website. This field is optional.
  • Click on the Add Message button.

There are more ways you can get to the Add Message form for your website. The above is a starting point method. Explore your website! Figure out what way works best for you!

Relative Url field

The relative url must begin with a forward slash character. Generally it should also end with a forward slash as well. For example...

/my/fantastic/url/

You are free to use just about any url patterns you want. You should avoid patterns that the software for your website uses for its own functionality.

For example if you wanted to create a series of stories you could use a pattern like...

/story/15/

/story/19/

...where the numbers correspond to the message numbers for those stories. You do not have to use message numbers. You could use text...

/story/toms-web-hosting-is-fantastic/

/story/build-a-website-now/

Webpage Indexes

If you enter a relative url such as /one/two/ and there isn't a message with a relative url for /one/ then your website will add a message to your discussion with the Topic field set to one, the Content field set to the template tag {% webpage_index %}, and the Relative Url field set to /one/. The /one/ webpage is a webpage index with links to its sub webpages.

An alias is automatically created when a relative url is entered into the field.

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