Help and other notes on using OurGAP web site.

Please add tips, hints, and corrections as you find them (or email Seth Powsner) A list of topics appears at the bottom.

This website allows GAP members to add (upload) new material for consideration by their committee members, for revision, and for publication. It can be used like a regular web site. But, it also offers special tabs when you are viewing your committee's material: tabs to let you add and edit, not just view.

Comments and short text can be typed directly. Structured text conventions convert simple typing into reasonably formatted web pages. The basic conventions are:

• put blank lines between paragraphs
• indent one space at the beginning of each paragraph

Unfortunately, spell checking is not built into this web software. You might look into activating or adding spell checking to your browser.

This web site will hold Word files in your committee folder. Just remember this is considered adding a file not a document (though these terms are used interchangeably around most offices).

Material added to this web site is visible to all members (once they log in). Material is not visible to the general public unless it is explicitly marked published by a designated reviewer (eg, Publications Board for professional information, office staff for organizational material).

Plone, which is built on Zope, is the software behind this web site. More information is available at www.plone.org and www.zope.org. Plone takes it's name from an electric band (more details).