Welcome to Foodsville! You may want to print these instructions out by clicking on the print button in the upper right.

We hope that you will take the time to share your expertise about food and food-related things with the rest of the community by writing an article. Residents are interested in many different aspects of food. No topic is too small to address in an article. An article can be about a book, a recipe, an ingredient, a place, a time, an experience, or an idea. Articles should not be a response to something already written—Foodsville reserves that for comments. Foodsville asks that you show respect for others and their ideas. As you might expect in a safe community, we ask you use language acceptable to the community at large. The Foodsville Community Watch will be on the lookout for language or behavior unbefitting a resident of Foodsville, and we reserve the right to remove or edit articles not living up to our minimum standards.

WHERE SHOULD I PUBLISH THE ARTICLE?

After you know what you'd like to write about, think about where in Foodsville this article should appear. Is is relevant to a Group of which you are a member? Or is it relevant to a specific neighborhood that appears on the Foodsville map? Once you have determined the group (if any) and neighborhood (if any), you will want to join that group or make that neighborhood a favorite.

GETTING STARTED
To get started writing, you will need to be logged in. Go into the black My Foodsville Tab. There, in upper right hand side you will see an area labeled "Links." There is a list starting with "Inbox." The fourth one down is "Articles." To the right of this you will see "View" and "New." Click on "New," and a window will appear. In this window you can start to compose your article by typing in a title in the box after the word "Title." The you can create the body of your article in the area below the word "Body." You will notice a series of tools in the gray box above where you enter the body of your article. If you put your cursor over each symbol, a popup will appear next to your cursor describing the tool. These can be used by advanced users to make words bold, italic, <u>underlined</u>, crossed out or cause a line of type to be:

flush left

centered

flush right

or justified so that it is spread evenly across the page and looks like this.

You can make a list

• with bullets

1. or with numbers

You can add a rule:

a picture

or create a link to an article, book, or video in foodsville or outside of foodsville.

You can also view books and add them to your quicklist to include books in any article. To do this you must first go to the entry of a book you want to include. Once there, find the About heading on the bottom right column of any book's detail page. By clicking on Add to my quicklist, the book will appear listed below the Body entry area of the article editor when you return to write or edit your article. You can update your quicklist at any time and edit your article to include more books as reference. The more books listed the better.

BECOMING AN AUTHORITY

Have fun writing articles. If you are one of Foodsville's more popular authors, you may be asked by one of our editors if you'd like to join the Foodsville Author's Guild. There you will be given the opportunity to publish authoritative articles, working with an editor and publisher to refine the works into publishable pieces that can be licensed and sold in Foodsville and the greater culinary world.

Foodsville is better for your involvement. If you have any questions, email me at: Mayor@foodsville.com.

Revised 3/12/08