How to write your story

If you want to tell us your story, hereunder you find the information to do so. Note that the stroy should reflect the “spirit” of a nofear traveling as it is explained in NoFear.it website. We kindly reccomend you to insert, at least, ten pictures/photos of good quality.

If you are not already registered, click on “Register”

otherwise click on “Log in”

To register you should insert:

your username (nickname) that will be displayed when you write a post or a comment,

your email address, where you will receive the email message containing the password (that could be changed immediately afterwards) to logon the administration panel

accept the legal notes

click on “Register”

Insert in the underneath panel username and passowrd received via email:

click ”Write” or ”Write a new post”

Insert title and text

insert a title (not too long … should fit in a line)

This is the control panel containing the edit commands, if you do not understand the utility of some icons, please leave the cursor above them and it will be displayed a textual desciption of the function.

Start simple!!!

First insert a summary, or a short introduction.
Insert a summary of your travel organizaed by leg stages.
Insert your story text.
Look at the stories already posted for ispiration/example.

Remember to save often.

Check-out how it will appear your post.

If you have already prepared your text and you want to paste it

The safest way, in order to avoid unwanted outcomes, is to save your document as “text only” or “text without formatting”, wordprocessors often format documents with formatting instructions not accepted from webpages, specifically for Microsoft Word is available the command:

paste from Word - in order to “clean up” the automatically generated formatting code.

NO FEAR IT has already a style

As you can see, in the edit control panel, it is not available the command “Font”; font selection has been already done by us, it is the same all over the Nofear.it web and … we save yourself from tech explanations.

Do not change text colour, we prefer having a “standardised” website.

Use the command ”Format” to change Heading dimensions.

Hereunder some formats examples:

This is: Heading 1

This is: Heading 2

This is: Heading 3

This is: Heading 4

This is: Heading 5

This is: Heading 6

This is: format Paragraph – standard

This is: address

This is: preformatted

As you can see, Heading 1 generate a large white text, meanwhile Heading 2 generate a red text with a background image. If you want to put in evidence a chapter or a pargraph please use Heading 2 instead of Heading 1.

Insert images

Prior to start inserting images, prepare in advance your images.

Page width is fixed, it is useless inserting big images. We suggest you to save them with a maximum dimensions set at 600px for the widest side (height, if the photo is upright, widht, if horizontal) with a resolution of 72 dpi (dots per inches), corresponding to the windscreen resolution (greater resolutions do not offer better quality and increase ”weight”)

Example of Adobe Potoshop “Image dimension” panel:

Photoshop dimensione immagine

Photoshop salva per web

In Adobe Photoshop use “Save for Web and Devices” – JPEG high – optimized

Position the cursor where you want to insert the image alongside the text.

Use ”Add an Image” to insert your photos

(not to be mixed up with: Insert/Edit image)

From the the selecting panel, you could load all the images once.

Once you have loaded images, you could find them in the “Gallery” area.

By clicking on “Show” you could insert extra infos …

… and position image amid the article by selecting dimensions.

If you are not sure of having correctly sized the image, select Size “Medium”, you will obtain an image 600px max for the longest side (that fit perfectly in the page).

Size “Thumbnail” generate an image 250px max for the longest side.

Alignment specify the way text will be arranged ”around” the image.

Last but not least, banner/slideshow with tumbhnail rolling images will be inserted by us when you will inform us of having completed your story. In the linked slideshow, sub-title will be inherited from file name, so is highly reccomended to label the file with a significant name (please do not use generic name like “image1.jpg”); this naming activity must be held before loading the images.

How to insert GoogleMaps maps

Hereunder you can find instructions on how to create your personalised map with Google:

http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=68480#additional_content

Once you have completed the creation of your map, click on “View in Google Earth”, it should begin a file download with extension .kml, in case download does not start immediately, right-click on it and select “Download Linked File”.