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Community Website Project for
Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park


29-10-2009 New guide to uploading videos to You Tube

VIDEO OF TRAINING AT THORNHILL & LUSS


GATHERING 2006 VIDEO REPORT ON YOU TUBE

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The following tutorials are being created as the training progresses. The animations will be expanded and refined in response to on the day training and feedback from participants. Please email feedback to pgw1966@ntlworld.com in relation to these tutorials. When an animation is updated the version number is incremented (v1,v2 etc). Significant changes will be signposted.


Day One - First Steps

Print Guide

Animated guides:

1. Post a Static page (v1)

2. Post a news story (v1)



Day Two - Inserting an Image
Print Guide

Animated guides:

3. Prepare image with GIMP graphics package (v2)

4. Upload image into Joomla media manager (v1).

5. Insert uploaded image into an existing story (v1).



Day Three - Look and Feel
Print Guide

Animated guides:

6. Create new banner

7. Add banner to website

8. Changing colours
(THIS IS AN ADVANCED PROCESS INVOLVING WHAT ARE KNOWN AS STYLE SHEETS- NO ADVANCED LEARNCAST GUIDE AT THIS STAGE. PETER AND DANNY WILL CHANGE COLOURS TO MATCH YOUR CHOICES AT TRAINING SESSIONS OR VIA TELEPHONE SUPPORT.)

9. Inserting a link

10. Community Circuit Website (This link will be explained during Day 3's session... )



Day Four - Action Plan
This session is a non-technical day involving discussion.

Action plan in word format

Action Plan in open office format




Day Five
Print Guide

Animated guides:
Creating sections/categories



Day Six
Print Guide

Animated guides:
Introduction to the menu manager



Day Seven at Gateway Centre, Balloch 29th October 2007

Uploading digital video to You Tube for displaying in a web page


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