Publishing Documents

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Publishing documents is the primary purpose of most content management systems. Webonizer offers some amazingly powerful publishing tools. The basic document tool in the Webonizer System is the “Article”.

In order to publish an article on your Webonizer site, you must first have a user account. When logged into your account, you may or may not have the privilege of publishing articles, depending on the permissions your site administrator has set for you. If you have permission to post articles, you will see links such as “Load Content” in your links panel and “Add Article, Images and Other Media” in your control panel.

When you click the link to load an article, you will see a form for submitting your article. Below is an explanation for the fields.

Title
The title of your document is very important. This is the title that appears in all pages that list links to articles, as well as the title that appears in Search Engines (like Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.) and at the top of the browser when the page is being viewed. This required field has a maximum of 100 characters.
Description
The description of your article is also very important. Here you should enter one or two concise sentences describing your article. This description appears in pages listing links to your article as well as in Search Engine descriptions. Be accurate and to the point. This required field has a maximum of 255 characters.
Keywords
Keywords are not required on most Webonizer sites, but they can play an important role in helping people find the article. You should enter a comma-separated list of words that describe this article. Use synonyms for your main topics in the article that may not actually appear in the article but may be used for searching for this article. Maximum of 200 characters.
Disable Guestbook
This checkbox is only available if your account has the guestbook permission and guestbooks are turned on for the site. If you check this option, the article will not display guestbook posts nor will there be a link to "Commont on This" that is otherwise present. This option was added in version 2.029 to stop visitors from abusing the guestbook based on a single article.
Primary Topic
Choose the most appropriate topic for this article. The topics in the list are created by the administrator of the site. Depending on your account permissions (set by an administrator) you may be able to add your article to more than one topic after it is loaded. Your article will appear in the topics pages where you have placed it. Note: Administrators will see a link called +Add Topic to List that will allow you to create new topics for the topic list. Clicking that link will take you from the current page, meaning that any changes to the article will not be saved.
Full HTML
By default, Webonizer articles use “pseudo-HTML”… meaning that line breaks are automatically added for every new line (for every ENTER you have hit). If you check the Full HTML option, this line break function is turned off and you will have to create line beaks by using HTML tags. Note: If your installation of Webonizer has a full license, your articles will have access to a full WYSIWYG editor that automatically checks the full HTML option and hides this field (if you have JavaScript enabled in your browser).
Article
The Article field is where you enter the content for your article. This information will fill the main body of your page. This field can be very long, but you should not enter more than 10,000 characters into this field. If your article is longer than 10,000 characters, you should break it into multiple articles or create a Series. You can add many HTML tags to your article to format it. The exact tags you may use are limited by your site’s individual settings. If you are using Internet Explorer, the Article field will be preceded by Text Format Tools that will help you add HTML. NOTE: even if you are primarily adding this article for Media Files (Images, Music, PDFS, etc) you are still required to add information into the article field. This enforces content standards and improves the search engine optimization of the page. You should always add information relevant to your page.

Editing an Article

You can always edit articles you have published when you are logged in. Simply log in, go to an article you wish to edit and click the link under the title of the article labeled "Edit Article". You will see the article form pre-filled with your article's details.

More options

When adding articles, you may also see forms for adding images and other media, creating Google page ranks, review flags and more options. These fields are dependent on your permission. Below are some administrative tools.

Review Flags
There is a set of checkboxes available in the edit-article mode that allow you to mark an article with several flags. Those flags are described below.
  • Reviewed - check this option if you have reviewed the article and find it acceptable. If your site is set to show only reviewed articles in directory pages, you must check this for the article to be made easy to find.
  • Featured - check here to make this a featured article on the site. Featured articles can appear on front pages and can be marked as featured in the site. The in-site search also allows searchers to look specifically for featured articles.
  • Sponsored - This flag is reserved for future versions of Webonizer that will create promotional material and marketing tools.
  • Artistic - This flag is reserved for future versions of Webonizer that create pages to really “Show off” high quality articles.
  • Sexuality - set this flag if the article contains sexuality. This will create code that allows the enforcement of parental controls that block sexuality.
  • Violence - set this flag if the article contains violence. This will create code that allows the enforcement of parental controls that block violence.
  • Profanity - set this flag if the article contains profanity. This will create code that allows the enforcement of parental controls that block profanity.
Meta
The meta field allows you to insert meta information into the head of the article’s HTML. You are advised to leave this field blank unless you know a lot about HTML.
Priority
The priority must be a numeric value ranging from 0.0 to 1.0 for internal Google ranking. This alerts Google of the importance of this article in relation to all the other pages on the site. If you leave this blank Google will always see it as 0.5. This is for the Google Sitemap function.
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