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February 18, 2006

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Pete Hubbard (LWPS Founder) @ LWPS/Elgg functions and features

How to add and maintain text and links in your Brief Description aka "gold box"

Someday, Elgg developers will provide an easy interface for you to create links in your sidebars. Meantime, I've set up this post to help you create and maintain links in your “gold box” so you can quickly and easily navigate around your personal and community blogs in LWPS.

I create and maintain posts for my todo list, table of contents (of my key posts), my introduction and my LWP (LifeWork Profile) on my personal blog. I also create a todo list and a table of contents on any communities I create. I have found it very convenient to use the "orange box" to provide links to these posts.

Below are instructions on how you can do the same.


  1. First you need to create the posts that you will link to from your "orange box".

    1. Click here to view a PDF file that contains templates for posts you may want to create.
    2. Choose a template (I recommend the first one - your introduction) and COPY all the text under the "Template" heading.
    3. Go to your personal blog, click on "Post a new entry" (in the upper left) and PASTE the contents into the "Post body".
    4. Select an access restriction of "Private" then save the post so you can see what the template looks like in its "raw" form.
    5. Click "Edit" to edit your post, and follow the instructions in the template text that you copied into the body. Save, review and edit until you are happy with you post.
    6. Repeat steps 1-5 for all remaining posts you want to create.


  2. Now repeat steps 1-5 but this time find and COPY the text for the "goldbox" post.

Click "Comments" to post any comments or questions you may have about this process.

Keywords: 11/5, 40%, GB, gold box, How to add and maintain text and links in your Brief Description aka "gold box", lwpsdevel, My Brief Description, My TOC, My TODO list, OB, TOC. hph

Posted by Pete Hubbard (LWPS Founder) @ LWPS/Elgg functions and features

Comments

  1. Virginia and I are having a conversation about this in her post at http://lifeworkps.com/vgc/weblog/144.html and I want to move it to here.



    In comment #2, she said
    I clicked on the link in your orange box and I was able to navigate there easily. Reading the details was a bit overwhelming, especially since it involved html code, which could be overwhelming to some users.





    I think we may need to break down the technical skills into beginner and advance, maybe even beginner, intermediate and advanced.





    For the purposes of the monograph, should we concentrate on the introductory skills and navigational skills. We could mention that users who have an understanding of HTML or have code writing software such as Dreamwaver can take this to a higher level, which I would consider (advanced skills)?




    And I responded there with
    2. Yes, for the purposes of the monograph, we should concentrate on the introductory skills and navigational skills. But I would also like to add the activity I presented in my orange box (OB) - to help users add links to their OB.



    A users OB is always present and can aid in their navigation and finding key posts and managing their work via a "todo list" post - all being quickly and easily accessible from their "always present" OB.



    So I ask that we work together on this activity to make it more intermediate or perhaps basic. That will be a challenge.



    I also ask that we continue this conversation in the post that introduces this activity at http://lifeworkps.com/lwpselggff/weblog/140.html

    user iconPete Hubbard on Sunday, 19 February 2006, 07:25 EST # |

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