Noozit Help
Using Noozit
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If you like an article, click the "Applause" button at the top of the right column next to the article.
By applauding good articles, you encourage the author and others to produce more high quality content. (Note that you can't applaud your own articles.)
During these early days of Noozit, we're taking some editorial license and "boosting" selected quality articles into the Choice Nooz box as a way of making good articles more visible. As we get more articles and members, the Choice Nooz will become entirely selected by members.
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You can include sound in your Noozit article.
If you already have the audio file on the Web, you can link to it. Just click theicon and enter the URL to the audio file.
If you want to upload an audio file from your computer, scroll down to the "Optional Attachments" area below the article text, and browse to locate the file on your computer. Note that files you attach to your article can't be larger then 20 MB.
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Bridge Graphics
You can add bridge hands to your article by clicking the
in the editor toolbar. This brings up a dialog box for you to fill in. You can fill in the whole deal and bidding, or just the pieces you need at this point in your article. When you click OK, the dialog box creates a graphic from your information and inserts it into your article.
The editor remembers the current information, so you can add additional hands or bids later in your article. So, you can start with "You hold..." and a graphic for your hand, then you can add some text underneath it, then click the icon again and fill in partner's hand to show both hands. Or, if you fill in the whole hand up front, you can hide parts of it and show them in later graphics.
After you have added a bridge graphic, you can edit it by clicking on it and then clicking the icon in the editor toolbar.
The bridge hand dialog box looks like this:
This setting makes it easier to work in terms of where you sat at the table, instead of having to translate everything into North, South, East and West. When you enter your seat, the labels for the hands and the bidding change to show where you and your partner sat and where your left- and right-hand opponents sat.
These settings will display in the upper-left corner of the graphic. When you set the dealer, the preceding seats have their bids set to "-" so that it is easy to see where the bidding starts. If you just start entering bids, the dealer will be set automatically to the first non-blank bid.
You can enter any number of hands. If a hand is empty, it is not displayed in the graphic. If you want to enter all the hands but start by hiding some of them, just choose the "Hide it" option to the right of the hand.The hand will be remembered and you can show it in a later graphic.
You can enter the bidding for the hand. This setting lets you enter everything at once but hide it for later, or hide it in later graphics.
If you enter bids and keep it the bidding visible, then the bidding sequence will be shown at the bottom of your graphic.
Lets you clear all the settings and start over.
Restores the previous hand, in case you made some changes you want to take out.
Card and bid graphics in your article
In your text about the hand, you can type a card or bid followed by a forward slash to turn it into an icon. For example, "h3/" is converted to "
", and "1nt/" is converted to "
".
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You can comment on any article by scrolling down to below the article text to the "Post a Comment" box.
Then add your comment and click "post comment." If you want to make the comment private, click the "Make this a private comment" checkbox.
Commenting on an article adds an element of community to the NoozIt experience. Feel free to encourage, question and constructively criticize authors.
If you want to delete a comment, you can click the delete icon next to your comment.
You can also specify whether and how people can comment on your articles. To allow people to comment on your article, click the checkbox "Allow others to post comments on your article" below your article text. If you want to allow people to comment privately so that only you will see them, click the checkbox "Allow others to post comments to you privately about your article" below your article text.
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You can delete one of your published articles at any time, as long as there are no comments on it. (Once an article has comments, it cannot be deleted.)
To delete your article, click to open the article, and then click theicon located to the right of the big orange article title.
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You can edit one of your published articles at any time. Just click to open the article, and then click the
icon located to the right of the big orange article title.
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If you're copying an HTML-formatted file from another source, you can post it directly into Noozit with all of the formatting intact.
- Click Post Nooz to start an article and add a title
- Click the
icon.
- Copy the raw HTML from your formatted article and paste it into your Noozit article.
- Click the
icon again to resume normal editing withe the Noozit editor.
icon, and copy the raw HTML out of Noozit.
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post a comment or ask a question about HTML - images, adding from online
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You can add an online image anywhere in your article.
- Put your cursor at the place in your article where you want the image to appear.
- Click the
icon. The Image Properties dialog displays.
- Enter the direct URL to the image, for example http://www.webcrossing.com/Images/paul/toplogo-mark.gif.
- To preview the image, click in one of the other text boxes in the dialog box.
- You can change any of the following settings. The changes you make will display in the preview:
- Alternate Text: The text you enter will display if a reader's browser cannot display your image.
- Width/Height: Resize the image by changing the width and height. By default, changing either width or height will automatically change the other so that your image scales proportionally. If you want to change only the width or height without changing the other, click the
icon and then enter the width or height. To reset the image to its original size, click the
icon.
- Border: Adds a black border of the specified width around the image.
- Hspace: Adds the specified padding to either side of the image.
- Vspace: Adds the specified padding above and below the image.
- Alignment: Specifies how the image aligns with the text.
- Once the preview image looks the way you want it to, click the OK button at the bottom of the Image Properties dialog to include the image in your article.
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You can upload an image from your computer and place it anywhere in your article.
- Put your cursor at the place in your article where you want the image to appear.
- Click the
- From the Image Properties dialog, click
- The Browse To dialog displays
- Click
to locate the image file on your computer. If the image is large, check the "Resize this image to fit" to automatically resize the image to fit in your article.
- Click
to upload the image.
If you're uploading a large image, it can take awhile for Noozit to finish processing the image. - When the image is uploaded, the Browse To dialog closes and you'll see a preview of your image within the Image Properties dialog.
- You can change any of the following settings. The changes you make will display in the preview:
- Alternate Text: The text you enter will display if a reader's browser cannot display your image.
- Width/Height: Resize the image by changing the width and height. By default, changing either width or height will automatically change the other so that your image scales proportionally. If you want to change only the width or height without changing the other, click the
- Border: Adds a black border of the specified width around the image.
- Hspace: Adds the specified padding to either side of the image.
- Vspace: Adds the specified padding above and below the image.
- Alignment: Specifies how the image aligns with the text.
- Once the preview image looks the way you want it to, click the OK button at the bottom of the Image Properties dialog to include the image in your article.
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You can invite people to read your articles or other interesting articles you find on NoozIt.
While you're reading an article, click on
Fill in the email address to send it to, add any comments, and then press "Send."
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post a comment or ask a question about invite - links
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If you want to share an article, you can link to it by copying and pasting the links in the Share section of the right column.
If you want to share your own articles, you can link to them by copying and pasting the links in the Share My Articles section of your My Nooz page.
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post a comment or ask a question about links - My Nooz
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You can follow interesting authors and see all of your own postings using the
icon.
Noozit automatically tracks all of the articles you've written under My Nooz. You can also save an interesting article by clicking on "Save to My Nooz" while reading an article, or track an interesting author by clicking on "Save Author to My Nooz" when reading an article, or follow an area of interest by clicking "Save to My Nooz" after clicking on a tag or searching on a term.
My Nooz also lists your private posts, your recent searches, and articles you've recently read.
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post a comment or ask a question about My Nooz - notifications
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If you want to keep on top of what's happening at NoozIt, you can set yourself up to receive notifications of activity in areas that interest you.
Clickto open your settings.
Scroll to the bottom to see your email summaries
You can specify how often you want to receive email notifications of activity in the following areas:
- Articles or authors you've added to "My Nooz"
- Your own articles
- Comments on your articles
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- Post Nooz
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To create an article, click the
link near the top of the page, and then enter the title and text for the article.
You can control the look of the article by changing the style of the text (making it larger, bold, etc.) and layout your article by adding images, videos, links, etc.
Once you've created the article text, you can write a short teaser and then tag the article with words and phrases to make it easier for readers to locate.
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You can subscribe to RSS feeds from a paricular author by following the steps below.
- Go to any article by the author you want to subscribe to.
- Click on their name in the byline. For example:
- Click on the RSS icon:
post a comment or ask a question about RSS - Go to any article by the author you want to subscribe to.
- search
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You can easily locate articles on Noozit using any of the following search methods.
- Click on a "hot tag" on the right side of the page.
This hot tag list shows the tags most used in Noozit articles. The bigger the font, the more articles using that tag. Clicking on a tag brings up all of the articles with that tag.
You can refine the results by entering a term into the "Refine" box at the top of the page. That will narrow down to your tagging results to those articles containing your search term.
- Click on a tag when you're reading an article.
All of the tags used in an article are listed in the column to the right. You can click on any of these to find similar articles.
You can refine the results by entering a term into the "Refine" box at the top of the page. That will narrow down to your tagging results to those articles containing your search term.
- Enter a word into the search box in the upper right corner.
You can further narrow your search by clicking on the "Advanced Search" link below the search box. From here, you can search on any combination of criteria, such as date, author, rating. For example, you could search for events in your town during the last week.
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You can change your profile settings by clicking on
at the top of the page.
From here, you can change your username, password, email address, photo and other profile information.
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Just starting and want to post your own article? Here are the steps to quickly join and post an article.
- Join Noozit (or just Login if you are already a member)
- Click the POST NOOZ link in the navigation bar above
- Fill in a title
- Fill in your article.
- Fill in the "Are You a Human" text
- Fill in any other article fields that you like, but the rest of them are all optional
- Click
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- tags
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You can tag your articles with words to make it easier for other people to find them.
We provide a few tag fields at the bottom of every article:
- Who: Who was involved?
- What: What kind of event?
- Where: Where did it happen? (By default, we tag this with your location)
- When: When did it happen? (By default, we tag this with today's date)
- Tags: Any other words you want to include
When you're searching for an article, you can use the tag cloud on the right side of the page.
This shows the tags most used by NoozIt authors. The bigger the font, the more articles use that tag. Clicking on a tag brings up all of the articles with that tag.
When you're reading an article, you'll see the tags from the article in the column on the right. You can click on any of these to find similar articles.
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You can include a video in your article.
First, you need to upload your video to a video site, such as YouTube.
Then, copy the embed code, found next to your video in your video site.
Finally, paste that code into the Optional Video box found below the Article Text window.
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About Login and Registration
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You can join NoozIt and start posting your own articles.
Click thebutton in the upper right corner.
Then, fill out the form and read and agree to the Terms of Service. When you click on the Register button, Noozit will send a confirmation email message to the address you entered. (Note: If your email program filters for spam and you don't see our message in your Inbox within an hour, check your spam directory for it.)
Click on the link in that message and your registration as a Noozit member will be validated. You can then post and edit your own articles.
Make sure you've read the Terms of Service and understand our expectations of your role as a member and author. If you have trouble and never receive the email from us, ask for help at contactus@noozit.com.
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You can log into your Noozit account by entering your username and password at the top of the page and then pressing Login.
If you're forgotten your password, click on Login Help, and then enter your email address to have a new password emailed to you.
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You can logout of your Noozit account by clicking
at the top of the screen.
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