For Beginners

Sometimes you have to display an image which is wider than the content area permits. The Lightbox Plus tool helps overcome the contraints of your template and will cleverly float the image on top of your content. This is known as a Lightbox Effect.

How do you do this? First up, in the plugins activate the Lightbox plugin. Then in Appearance > Lightbox Plus tailor the settings to taste and test a few times to get the hang of it. Don’t change everything at once or you will make your head hurt.

If the demo works but your images don’t float, you will need to check you are linked to the image correclty. Edit the image to see. If the link URL is blank it will not float – our bricks won’t for that reason!

To work with galleries you’ll need to check the WP Galleries box.

OurLocality has a nice facility that allows you to use your own domain. So instead of:

http://ourlocality.org/mybeautifulsite

you can have

http://mybeautifulsite.co.uk

The steps are very straightforward and very commonly performed when websites are transferred from one host to the next. Continue reading →

Give the man some support!

Here are some tips for getting yourself noticed on OurLocality.Org as well as elsewhere.

These tips apply to articles published as events (if you have enabled them), posts or pages:

• Use the Title of your article to grab your reader’s attention
• Remember readers may not see the headline in context, e.g. on a syndicated news site, facebook, twitter or in a feed / summary
• Frontload your story, give something away at the start.
• Use a great looking image to make your point and make sure it is appropriately justified (don’t center!), AND never knowingly nick one (without a credit) and do upload a suitably resized one (size matters)! Continue reading →