Talking to Your Users

Your writers and designers will need to know how to use the system. This page tells you what you need to tell them.

How to publish via email

• The email address to send email to.

• Their username and password.

• How to title a page.

• How to include their username and password in their email message.

After you've set up an email account and created your users' usernames and passwords, you can let them know what these are.

Titling a page is simple: the subject line of the email becomes the page title.

Your users include their username and password via the use of directives. Directives must appear at the top of their email message.

A directive is a pound sign, followed by a space, followed by information contained in quotes.

An example set of directives looks like this:

#userName "Brent"
#password "498fgkj96"

The directives will not show up on the final page. If they are not present, or if they are present but incorrect or mis-typed, the page will not be published.

Also, if a page already exists, it will not be over-written unless it comes from the same email account. This extra level of security is provided so that you may create email publishing accounts that will be used by multiple writers without worrying about name collisions.

Publishing Via FTP

Your users will need to know what their usernames and passwords are, as set up in your Users & Groups control panel. (See FTP Publishing for more information.) They will not be able to log on without this information.

Any FTP'ed text file should contain a #title directive, as in:

#title "My Page Title"

New templates and graphics can also be uploaded via FTP, using Fetch, Anarchie, or any other FTP client on any platform.

New pages appear automatically on the pagelog.html page at the top level of the web site.

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