Log in

1. Go to http://www.iraqiembassy.us/user
2. Enter your username and password.
3. Click the “Log in” button (or just hit the Enter key).

Log out

1. In the menu tabs, go to Home/For staff/Log out.

Change your password

1. In the menu tabs, go to Home/For staff/Change password.
2. Under “Password:”, enter the new password.
3. Under “Confirm password:”, re-enter the new password.
4. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).

Backup the website database

Note: The database is the most important of two parts that need to be backed up for a complete backup of your website. The other part that needs to be backed up is the collection of all files, folders and subdirectories under your website’s root directory. Of these, the most important is the folder /sites, especially the underlying /sites/default (contains the photos and documents you have uploaded to your site) and /sites/all/themes/generic_drupal_7 (doesn’t change very often and contains the files that control the layout and look of your website). The remaining files under the root directory are Drupal files.
1. In the menu tabs, go to Home/For staff/Backup database.
2. Click the “Backup now” button.
3. Click the Download button. A file like, for example, EmbassyoftheRepublicofIraqPublicRelationsOffice-2013-04-30T19-56-17.mysql, will be saved on your computer to the default download directory for the browser you are using. The file is not encrypted, so if it contains sensitive information, be careful who has access to it (a process can be set up to create encrypted backups if this is required).

Backup the website files

Note: Before you can do this you need to obtain an FTP (or other file transfer protocol) login from your website’s server administrator. This consists of a server address, user name and password. You also need an FTP client program (such as Cyberduck or FileZilla).
1. Start your FTP client program.
2. Log in to your FTP account.
3. Make a compressed file of your website’s entire root directory and all files and subdirectories below it.
4. Download the compressed file containing your entire root directory.

Find an article, page, event, media advisory, photo, publication, etc.

1. In the Search box in the upper right corner of the website, type text that is contained in the content item you are looking for. To search for an exact string of text, put it in quotes (just like using Google, except, unlike Google, words are only matched exactly, so, for example, “publication” will not match “publications”).
2. Click the Search button (or just hit the Enter key on your keyboard). A list of matches (if there are any) will appear.
3. Click on the link for the content item you want.

Find an unpublished article, page, event, media advisory, photo, publication, etc.

1. In the menu tabs, go to Home/For staff/List unpublished content. A list of unpublished content (if there is any) will appear.
2. Click on the title link of the content item you want.
3. If you want to mark the content item as published, scroll down to “Publishing options”, click on it, check “Published”, and click the Save button. The content item will now be visible to visitors to the website.

Edit an article, page, event, media advisory, photo, publication, etc.

1. Go to the content item (see “Find an article, page, event, media advisory, photo, publication, etc.”).
2. Click the Edit tab above or below the title.
3. Make changes.
4. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).

Using the WYSIWYG editing buttons

Here is an explanation for how to use the editing icons or buttons that appear above the Body text areas (listed in the order they appear, left to right):

• Insert/edit image:
  1. Move the cursor to the point where you want to insert an image, and click the “Insert/edit image” button.
  2. In the dialog box that pops up, click the Browse button next to “Image URL”.
  3. Wait a few moments for the Browser window to open and then single click on a file name to see the image. You can click on column headings such as Date to sort by that criteria.
  4. When you find the image you want, double click on its file name to return to the “Insert/edit image box.”
  5. For “Alignment”, select desired option for aligning the image left or right, with or without a frame around it.
  6. For “Width x Height”, if you want the image to be smaller than its actual size type a new width in the first box and blank out the second box.
  7. Click the Ok button.
• Insert/edit link:
  1. Move the cursor to the point where you want to insert a link or select the text you want to make a link, and click the “Insert/edit link” button.
  2. For “Link URL”, paste the URL of the link. Do not click the Browse button. If the link is external to the website, include the http:// part. If the link is internal to the website, enter only the part after http://www.iraqiembassy.org/, for example: page/important-visa-information.
  3. If “Link text” is blank, enter the text you want the user to click on to go to the link (otherwise it should be what you selected in step 1).
  4. Click the Ok button.
• Bold: Select the desired text and click this button to make it bold.
• Italic: Select the desired text and click this button to make it italicized.
• Underline: Select the desired text and click this button to make it underlined.
• Ordered list: To format one or more lines or paragraphs as a numbered list, select the lines or paragraphs and click this button.
• Unordered list: To format one or more lines or paragraphs as a bulleted list, select the lines or paragraphs and click this button.
• Headings: Select the desired text and click this button to make it a heading, choosing Heading 3 for most subtitles or headings. Use Heading 4 for subheadings or subtitles in teasers.
• Preview: Toggles between WYSIWYG mode and editing mode. Click this button to see what the text will look like on the website. If the preview mode doesn’t work, click back to the editing mode, select all text (Ctrl-a on PC or Cmd-a on Mac), cut it (Ctrl-x on PC or Cmd-x on Mac), click the preview button again,
• Help: Gives a description for each button.

Add an article

1. In the menu tabs, go to Home/For staff/Add content/Article.
2. Under “Title:”, type or paste the title of the article. Important: Make sure that if you paste a title with a curly apostrophe, curly single quotes ‘ ’ or curly double quotes “ ” to replace them by typing the plain versions ‘ or “.
3. Under “Language:”, select either English, Arabic, or Kurdish for the language of the article (if the article will have an English version, create it first).
4. Under “Body:”, type or paste the text of the article. Begin with the dateline, for example: WASHINGTON, DC (April 18, 2013) Important: If the article is in Arabic or Kurdish, paste this in the beginning of the Body text: <div id=”rtl-body-text”> and paste this at the end of the Body text: </div> If you need to put English L-T-R text inside Arabic text, for example for an address block, paste this at the beginning of the English part: <div id=”ltr-text-inside-rtl”> and paste this at the end of the English block: </div>
5. To customize the short version of the text to appear on the home page (the “teaser”), next to Body, click (Edit summary) and paste or type the summary text in the new Summary box that appears.
6. Under Front page layout position, select the locations on the website you want this article to appear.
7. If you want to change the post date for the article, scroll down the page, click the “Authoring information” tab, and, in the “Authored on:” field, enter the date like YYYY-MM-DD 12:00:00. For example: 2011-12-05 12:00:00 (always use 12:00:00 for the time if the time is unknown).
8. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this). You will now be shown a preview of the article (the article will not be published yet!).
9. Proofread the article, and when everything looks good, click the “Edit” link under the title, scroll down, click “Publishing options” and select “Published”.
10. Click the Save button. The article should now appear on the website’s home page.
    Tips for Adding Subtitles and Links to Text
    If the body text includes a subtitle, surround it in HTML <h3></h3> tags like this:
    <h3>This is the text of the subtitle</h3>
    When you do this you must also scroll down to below the Body field, click on “Input format” and select “Full HTML.”
    If the summary text includes a subtitle, surround it instead in HTML <strong></strong> tags like this:
    <strong>This a subtitle in an article summary</strong>
    To add a link to a web page in the text, use HTML <a></a> tags like this:
    <a href=”http://(put the rest of the URL to the link here)”>This is the text that you click to go to the link</a>
    For example, to have the text “our parent organization” link to the Parent Organization home page, you would insert this:
    <a href=”http://www.parentorganization.org”>our parent organization</a>
    For another example, to have the text “John Doe” link to his bio page, insert this instead of just “John Doe”:
    <a href=”/person/john-doe”>John Doe</a>
    Notice that you omit the http://www.kazakhembus.com part if the page is local to this website.

Add an “In the news” article from another website

1. In the menu tabs, go to Home/For staff/Add content/”In the news” article.
2. In a separate browser tab (press Ctrl-T in Windows or Cmd-T on Mac), find and open the original version of the article you want to add.
3. Select and copy (Ctrl-C or Cmd-C) the title of the article.
4. Go back to the “Create In the news” tab in your browser and paste (Ctrl-V or Cmd-V) the article title into the Title field. Important: Make sure that if you paste a title with a curly apostrophe or curly single quotes ‘ ’ or curly double quotes “ ” to replace them by typing the plain versions ‘ and “.
5. Going back and forth between your website and the original article web page, copy and paste the information for the necessary fields as follows:
   • Under “Article source:”, type or paste the source for the article (for example: The Wall Street Journal). Be consistent so you always use the same name for the same source. Make sure this is the original source of the article.
   • Under “Article date:”, click in the box and a calendar will appear. Click the date the original article was published (if you need to change the month or year, click the arrows in the calendar).
   • Under “Article link:”, paste the URL of the original article (use full URL including http://).
   • Under “Article author:”, paste the name of the author of the original article if one is given.
   • Under “Excerpt or description:”, if the body text and summary will contain original writing describing or summarizing the article instead of verbatim excerpts from the article, change from “Excerpt from article” to “Description of article”.
   • Under “Body:”, paste the text of the article or enter a summary of the article in your own words (if you choose this second option, be sure to set the “Excerpt or description” field above to “Description of article”.
6. To customize the short version of the text to appear on the home page (the “teaser”), position the cursor before the first character of the text, click the “Split summary at cursor” button, unselect “Show summary in full view” and type or paste the summary text in the new box.
7. Under the Vocabulary tab,
   • under “General category:” click “In the news”.
   • under “Front page layout position:”, select the position on the front page where you want the article to appear. To select more than one layout position, hold down the Ctrl key (or Cmd key on a Mac) while clicking.
   • under “Article topic category:”, select the topic for this article. To select more than one topic, hold down the Ctrl key (or Cmd key on a Mac) while clicking.
8. Click the “Authoring information” tab, and, in the “Authored on:” field, enter the date of the news bulletin this “In the news” article was contained in using the format: YYYY-MM-DD 12:00:00. For example: 2012-06-04 12:00:00 (always use 12:00:00 for the time if the time is unknown or unnecessary).
9. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this). The article should now appear on the website.
   Tips for Adding Subtitles and Links to Text
   If the body text includes a subtitle, surround it in HTML <h3></h3> tags like this:
   <h3>This is the text of the subtitle</h3>
   When you do this you must also scroll down to below the Body field, click on “Input format” and select “Full HTML.”
   If the summary text includes a subtitle, surround it instead in HTML <strong></strong> tags like this:
   <strong>This a subtitle in an article summary</strong>
   To add a link to a web page in the text, use HTML <a></a> tags like this:
   <a href=”http://(put the rest of the URL to the link here)”>This is the text that you click to go to the link</a>
   For example, to have the text “our parent organization” link to the Parent Organization home page, you would insert this:
   <a href=”http://www.parentorganization.org”>our parent organization</a>
   For another example, to have the text “John Doe” link to his bio page, insert this instead of just “John Doe”:
   <a href=”/person/john-doe”>John Doe</a>
   Notice that you omit the http://www.kazakhembus.com part if the page is local to this website.

Add a photo

Note: When uploading photos there may be problems with Safari (if so, use a different browser such as Firefox).
Also, to avoid potential problems, make sure that the filename of the image you will upload does not have any spaces or punctuation characters other than underscore _ or hyphen -.
For example if the filename is:
ABC Event+3-2-12-63-17z-O.jpg
rename it to:
ABC_Event_3-2-12-63-17z-O.jpg

1. In the menu tabs, go to Home/For staff/Add content/Photo.
2. Leave the title blank unless you have a specific title you want to give it (a blank title will automatically be filled in with the filename of the photo).
3. Under “Image:”, click the “Browse…” (or “Choose File”) button, select the file and either double-click it or click the Choose button.
4. Click the Upload button (you may have to wait a bit while the photo is uploaded). A thumbnail of the image should appear.
5. Under “Photo credit:”, type the name of the photographer.
6. Under “Description:”, type or paste a generic caption for the photo (if you later link the photo to an article you will be able to provide an additional caption specific to the photo in the context of that article).
7. To add the date the photo was taken (important for sorting, etc.), scroll down the page, click the “Authoring information” tab, and, in the “Authored on:” field enter the date like YYYY-MM-DD 12:00:00. For example: 2011-12-05 12:00:00 (always use 12:00:00 for the time if the time is unknown).
8. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).
   Note: This is also the easiest time to add the photo to an article or a page. Without leaving the page, follow the steps under “Add a photo or video to an article or page” below.

Add a video

Note: Currently only YouTube.com, Vimeo, Blip.tv and Ustream videos can be added, but this can be expanded to include other video options if necessary.
1. In the menu tabs, go to Home/For staff/Add content/Video.
2. In a separate browser tab (press Ctrl-T in Windows or Cmd-T on Mac), find and open the YouTube.com video that you want to add.
3. Select and copy (Ctrl-C or Cmd-C) the title of the video.
4. Go back to the “Add video” tab in your browser and paste (Ctrl-V or Cmd-V) the video title into the Title field. Going back and forth between your website and the YouTube.com site, copy and paste the information for the necessary fields as follows.
5. Under “Video:”, paste the YouTube.com URL for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVpYEnYu7ok (the part of the URL before the & character, if it is present).
6. Under “Description:”, paste the description for the video (if there is one) from under the YouTube video (You may have to click “more” to select the entire description).
7. To add the date for the video (important for sorting, etc.), scroll down the page, click the “Authoring information” tab, and, in the “Authored on:” field enter the date from the YouTube video like, for example,
   2011-12-05 12:00:00 (always use 12:00:00 for the time if the time is unknown).

8. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).
   Note: This is also the easiest time to add the video to an article or a page. Without leaving the page, follow the steps under “Add a photo or video to an article or page” below starting with step 4.

Add a photo or video to an article or page

1. Make sure the photo or video has already been added (if not, follow the steps under “Add a photo” or “Add a video” to add it).
2. Make sure the article or page has already been added (if not, follow the steps under “Add an article” or “Add a page” to add it), and make sure you know the name of the article or page to which you want to add the photo or video.
3. Using the Search box, find the photo or video that you want to add to the article or page.
4. At the bottom right of the photo or video item, after the description, you will see a link called “Add this media item to a node.” Click the link.
5. Under “Text node:” type some text contained in the title of the article or page. A list of content items containing that text will appear. Click the one you want.
6. Under “Sort order:” type a number for order you want the photo or video to appear in the article or page. The video or photo with Sort order=1 will be the first item and will appear as a thumbnail in the teaser for the article if it appears of the home page of the website.
7. Under “Caption:”, type or paste the caption for the photo or video to appear in the article or page.
8. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).
9. You can now click on the link to the article or page to see how the photo or video is displayed.
   Note: You can either go to a photo, for example, and choose an article to link to it or start with an article and choose a photo to link to it. The first option is usually easier because you need to know the name of the content you are linking, and articles usually have more descriptive names (photos are often named something cryptic like DSC4218.JPG).

Designate one photo to be the thumbnail for the article teaser on the home page

1. Go to the article or page who’s teaser image you want to set.
2. If there are multiple images in the main image area, click on the thumbnail below the main image to go to the the image that you want to appear in the teaser.
3. Edit the link by clicking “Edit this link” in the upper right corner of the main image, and then click Edit to go to edit mode.
4. Make sure the Sort Order is 1.
5. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).
6. If this doesn’t cause the photo to be used in the teaser, make sure no other images are set to Sort order 1 (you can set all the others to 2 if their order is not important).

Edit the caption under a photo or video in an article or page

1. Go to the article or page that has the image with the caption you want to change.
2. If there are multiple images in the main image area, click on the thumbnail below the main image to go to the the image who’s caption you want to change.
3. Click “Edit this link” in the upper right corner of the main image.
4. Under “Caption:” make changes you want.
5. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).

Add a page

1. In the menu tabs, go to Home/For staff/Add content/Page.
2. Under “Title:”, type or paste the title of the page. Important: Make sure that if you paste a title with a curly apostrophe, curly single quotes ‘ ’ or curly double quotes “ ” to replace them by typing the plain versions ‘ or “.
3. Under “Language:”, select either English, Arabic, or Kurdish for the language of the page.
4. Under “Body:”, type or paste the text of the page. If the article is in Arabic or Kurdish, paste this in the beginning of the Body text: <div id=”rtl-body-text”> and paste this at the end of the Body text: </div> If you need to put English L-T-R text inside Arabic text, for example for an address block, paste this at the beginning of the English part: <div id=”ltr-text-inside-rtl”> and paste this at the end of the English block: </div>
5. To customize the short version of the text to appear as a summary (the “teaser”), next to Body, click (Edit summary) and paste or type the summary text in the new Summary box that appears.
6. Under “Front page layout position”, do not select anything unless you want this page to appear somewhere on the front page or to be used in the Interactive History Timeline.
7. Under “Page type”, do not select anything unless you want this page to be a “Photo gallery” page or a “Submenu” page.
8. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).

Add an Arabic or Kurdish translation of an English article or page

1. Go to the article or page in English that you want to add the translation to (see “Find an article, page, event, media advisory, photo, publication, etc.”). If the page doesn’t exist and you will have an English version of the page, create the English version first (before creating the Arabic or Kurdish version) and then continue these steps. If the English version does exist, but its Language field is set to “Language neutral”, edit it and change Language to “English” and save before continuing with these steps.
2. Click the Translation tab above or below the title.
3. In the last column (titled Operations) of the row for the language you want to translate into (for example, Arabic), click “add translation”
4. Replace the English text in the Title and Body fields with the translated text.
5. To make sure the Body text direction will appear right-to-left (don’t worry about the Title, it will automatically be r-t-l), paste <div id=”rtl-body-text”> at the beginning of the Body text and paste </div> at the end of the Body text. If you need to put English L-T-R text inside Arabic text, for example for an address block, paste this at the beginning of the English part: <div id=”ltr-text-inside-rtl”> and paste this at the end of the English block: </div>
6. Set any other fields as needed.
7. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).

Manually add a photo or video to an article by pasting code

1. If it has not been added yet, add the Photo following the steps under “Add a photo” copying the name of the photo into your buffer so you can paste it later.
2. If there is already an image or video linked to the article, remove it following the instructions under “Remove a photo or video from an article.”
3. Go to the article you want to add the photo to and click the Edit tab.
4. Paste the following code as the first line of the article (position your cursor at the top left and hit the Return key to get a new line to do it on) making sure to replace your_image_file_name.jpg with the actual name of the image file you added, replace 340px with the desired width of the photo, replace “photo_frame_right” with “photo_frame_left” you want the photo on the left side of the page (or “photo_no_frame_right” if you don’t want a frame around the photo), and replace put caption text here with the desired photo caption, if any:
   <div id=”photo_frame_right” style=”width: 340px;”><img src=”/sites/default/files/photos/your_image_file_name.jpg” width=”100%” /><div id=”photo_caption”>put caption text here</div></div>
   (In case you want to tamper with the details, id=”photo_frame_right” is the equivalent of style=”float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; padding: 5px 5px 0px 5px; border: 1px solid #bbbbbb;”)
5. Important: Make sure “Input format” under the body field is set to “Full HTML.”
6. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).

Add a photo to the home page slideshow

Note: The home page slideshow photos are 675 x 300 pixels, so make sure the image you are uploading is at least this size in both dimensions. The image will be scaled to this width automatically and you will be able to crop the image vertically after you upload it. Also, when uploading images there may be problems with Safari (if so, use a different browser such as Firefox).
1. If the photo you want to add to the slideshow has already been added, go to that photo and click the Edit link to edit it making changes starting with step 6.
2. Otherwise, in the menu tabs, go to Home/For staff/Add content/Photo.
3. Leave the title blank unless you have a specific title you want to give it (a blank title will automatically be filled in with the filename of the photo).
4. Under “Image:”, click the “Browse…” (or “Choose File”) button, select the file and either double-click it or click the Choose button.
5. Under “Photo credit:”, if necessary, type the photo credit (for example the name of the photographer).
6. Click in the box next to “Use on home page slideshow?” to select that.
7. Under “Slideshow link”, optionally add a link for the image when clicked in the home page slideshow. For an external link, enter the full URL (for example: https://www.othersite.com/page-on-other-site…). For an internal link, enter the relative URL (for example: page/about or to link to an article called “New Developments” you would enter: article/new-developments).
8. Under Slideshow title, optionally enter a title to appear superimposed over this photo when it is used as a front page slideshow image.
9. Under “Description:”, type or paste a generic caption for the photo so you can easily find it later using Search (if you later link the photo to an article you will be able to provide an additional caption specific to the photo in the context of that article).
10. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).
11. Click the Edit link to go back into editing the photo.
12. Next to the thumbnail of the image, click the Crop button.
13. A rectangle with dashed borders should appear over the image (you may have to wait a moment for this crop area to be rendered). When you move your pointer over the rectangle, your pointer icon will change. Click and drag the rectangle until it surrounds the portion of the image you want to show. You can also click and drag the little boxes at the corners and midpoints of the rectangle to zoom in or out. The image in the upper left corner should reflect your changes (or you can just see it in the dashed line rectangle).
14. Click the Save button in the lower right area of the screen.
15. This should now appear as the first slide in the slideshow on the homepage. If you would like to change the order of the slides, go to Home/For staff/List content/Home page slideshow

Add a photo gallery

1. Follow the steps above for “Add a page”, but under “Page type”, choose “Photo gallery”.

Add an event

Note: If this is a holiday that has already been entered — most of them have — do not reenter the event. Just go to the event, and, if necessary, expand the repeat occurrences.
1. In the menu tabs, go to Home/For staff/Add content/Event.
2. If the event is a holiday or other event where the starting and ending times are not important, click in the box to select All Day (the Time field below will disappear).
3. If you want to enter an optional end time for the event, click in the box to select Show End Date (fields for the end date and time will appear).
4. Under Date, click in the Date box. A calendar will appear. Use it to select the event date. If this is not an All Day event, click in the Time box to the right, and enter the starting time for the event. If you selected Show End Date above, enter the date and/or time in the boxes below (you do not need to reenter the date if it is the same as the start date).
5. If this is a repeating event, such as a holiday, click in the box to select Repeat. Important: If this is a holiday that has already been entered — most of them have — do not reenter the event. Just go to the event, and, if necessary, expand the repeat occurrences. If this is a yearly event, such as a holiday, under Repeats, choose “Monthly” instead of “Yearly” even though this seems wrong. Then choose the other options to describe how the event repeats. Under “Stop repeating”, enter either a number of occurrences or a date the event last occurs.
6. Under Name, type the name of the event.
7. Under Location, type the location for the event as specifically as you want. For example:
   Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC 20001
   or:
   Newseum, Washington, DC
   or just:
   Washington, DC

8. Under Country, if this is a holiday, click in the box, and choose the country of the holiday (otherwise, just leave it as – None -).
9. Under “Attendance restrictions”, if you need to, click in the box, and choose an option such as “by invitation only” or “open to the public” (otherwise, just leave it as – None -).
10. Under “Event type”, if this is a holiday on which the embassy is closed, click in the box to choose “Holiday – embassy closed” (otherwise, just leave it as – None -).
11. Under Preview, type or paste a description of the upcoming event.
12. To customize the short version of the preview text to appear in the teaser, click “(Edit summary)”, and type or paste the summary text in the new box.
13. Under Recap, type a description of the event (if it has already occurred).
14. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).

Add an event recap

Note: It may seem redundant to enter an event recap if you also have an article recapping the event, but this is necessary to have the past events section display properly. Of course you can just copy and paste the article text there.
1. To find the event, in the menu tabs, go to Events/Past Events (it may still be under Upcoming Events if it is the same day as the event).
2. Click on the title of the event to go to the page for that event.
3. Under the event title, click Edit.
4. Scroll down to the Recap field and type or paste the text.
5. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).

Add a document

Note: Documents are usually less formal .pdf files attached to an article or page. They are different than publications, which are more formal, broadly distributed and stored on issuu.com.
1. In the menu tabs, go to Home/For staff/Add content/Document.
2. Under “Title:”, type the title of the document.
3. Under “File:”, click the “Browse…” (or “Choose File”) button, select the file and either double-click it or click the Choose button.
4. Click the Upload button (you may have to wait a bit while the document is uploaded). A document icon with the name and size of the file should appear when the document is finished uploading.
   Note: When uploading large document files there may be problems with Safari (if so, use a different browser such as Firefox).
5. Under “Body:”, type or paste the text of the document. Even though the text is contained in the .pdf file for the document, it is a good idea to paste it here as well so the contents will be indexed for use in the website’s search function.
6. If you want to change the post date for the document, scroll down the page, click the “Authoring information” tab, and, in the “Authored on” field, enter the date like YYYY-MM-DD 12:00:00. For example: 2011-12-05 12:00:00 (always use 12:00:00 for the time if the time is unknown).
7. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).

1. In the menu tabs, go to Home/For staff/Add content/Media advisory.
2. Under “Title:”, type the title of the media advisory.
3. Under “Body:”, type or paste the text of the media advisory. Keep in mind that this header image will automatically appear above the title and text:
   
   Note: If the media advisory includes a subtitle, surround it in h3 HTML tags like this:
   <h3>This is the text of the subtitle</h3>
   When you do this you must also scroll down to below the body field, click on “Input format” and select “Full HTML.”
4. To customize the short version of the text to appear on the home page (the “teaser”), position the cursor before the first character of the text, click “Split summary at cursor” button, unselect “Show summary in full view” and type or paste the summary text in the new box.
5. If you want to change the Post Date for the media advisory, scroll down the page, click the “Authoring information” tab, and, in the “Authored on:” field enter the date like YYYY-MM-DD 12:00:00. For example: 2011-12-05 12:00:00 (always use 12:00:00 for the time if the time is unknown).
6. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this). You will now be shown a preview of the media advisory (the media advisory will not be published yet!).
7. Proofread the media advisory and when everything looks good, click Edit under the title, scroll down to click “Publishing options” and select “Published.”
8. Click the Save button. The media advisory should now appear on the website’s home page.
   Tips for Adding Subtitles and Links to Media Advisories
   If the body text includes a subtitle, surround it in HTML <h3></h3> tags like this:
   <h3>This is the text of the subtitle</h3>
   When you do this you must also scroll down to below the Body field, click on “Input format” and select “Full HTML.”
   If the summary text includes a subtitle, surround it instead in HTML <strong></strong> tags like this:
   <strong>This a subtitle in an article summary</strong>
   To add a link to a web page in the text, use HTML <a></a> tags like this:
   <a href=”http://(put the rest of the URL to the link here)”>This is the text that you click to go to the link</a>
   For example, to have the text “our parent organization” link to the Parent Organization home page, you would insert this:
   <a href=”http://www.parentorganization.org”>our parent organization</a>
   For another example, to have the text “John Doe” link to his bio page, insert this instead of just “John Doe”:
   <a href=”/person/john-doe”>John Doe</a>
   Notice that you omit the http://www.iraqiembassy.us part if the page is local to this website.

Add a publication

Note: Publications are stored at issuu.com and embedded on the website.
1. In the menu tabs, go to Home/For staff/Add content/Publication.
2. In a separate browser tab (press Ctrl-T in Windows or Cmd-T on Mac), go to http://issuu.com/your_issue_account_name, find and go to the issuu.com publication that you want to add.
3. Select and copy (Ctrl-C or Cmd-C) the title of the publication.
4. Switch back to the “Create Publication” tab in your browser, and paste (Ctrl-V or Cmd-V) the publication title into the Title field. Going back and forth between your website and the issuu.com site, copy and paste the information for the necessary fields as follows.
5. Under “Publication type:” choose the category for this publication. To select more than one category, hold down the Ctrl key (or Cmd key on a Mac) while clicking.
6. If you want to include the PDF file for the publication so it can be downloaded (this is not necessary), click the “Browse…” (or “Choose File”) button under “File:”, choose the file and click the Upload button.
   Note: When uploading large document files there may be problems with Safari (if so, use a different browser such as Firefox).
7. For “Issuu embed code:”, first copy the embed code from Issuu by clicking on the < > symbol under the publication. A window will open up. Click once in the middle of the “Get the embed code” box to select the code and press Ctrl-C or Cmd-C to copy it. Click the X in the upper right corner to close the window. Switch back to the website’s “Create Publication” tab and paste the code under “Issuu embed code:”. Delete the last div section in the code by carefully following the example in the code below. In this example, delete the bolded red code segment starting after </object> and ending before the last </div>:
   <div><object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ style=”width:420px;height:272px” id=”7be89d82-25db-0c87-016f-31f3d04db504″ ><param name=”movie” value=”http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v2/IssuuReader.swf?mode=mini&backgroundColor=%23222222&documentId=111201173100-5643099d60ef48d4b9c3724edd202b8e” /><param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true”/><param name=”menu” value=”false”/><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”/><embed src=”http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v2/IssuuReader.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” menu=”false” wmode=”transparent” style=”width:420px;height:272px” flashvars=”mode=mini&backgroundColor=%23222222&documentId=111201173100-5643099d60ef48d4b9c3724edd202b8e” /></object><div style=”width:420px;text-align:left;”><a href=”http://issuu.com/issuu_account_name/docs/document_name?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222″ target=”_blank”>Open publication</a> – Free <a href=”http://issuu.com” target=”_blank”>publishing</a> – <a href=”http://issuu.com/search?q=austerity” target=”_blank”>More austerity</a></div></div>
8. Under “Description:”, paste the description for the publication (if there is one) from under the publication on Issuu.com (You should click “More” to make sure you select the entire description).
9. To add the date for the publication (important for sorting, etc.), scroll down the page, click the “Authoring information” tab, and, in the “Authored on:” field, enter the date from the Issuu publication (upper left, just under title). For example, if, in Issuu, the date appeared as December 5, 2011, enter:
   2011-12-05 12:00:00 (always use 12:00:00 for the time if the time is unknown).

10. Click the Save button (nothing is saved until you do this).