It is really easy to submit material to the site. It might look complicated or difficult from the instructions below, but it really isn’t. The site is very user friendly. Writing out instructions for simple tasks can make the tasks seems much more complicated than they are.
On submitting material to our website:
Let’s all contribute to the building of our website (http://evangelicalarminians.org/) by adding material and resources to it as able! For bloggers, please submit to our website any blog posts that you have done, and any that you will do, if they are relevant to A/C for inclusion in SEA’s blog. If anyone runs a website, please submit any material that is relevant to A/C to SEA’s website. Others might not produce material, but if you know of any material on the internet, or have some on your computer, or can put some into a digital file that is relevant to A/C, please submit it to our website for inclusion. If you are surfing the net, and find a website that has some good material, either grab it and submit it to SEA (preferably), or alert the group through our Google group. Intentionally search on the internet for material. Hopefully you get the picture. The more people who are keeping eyes out, and adding things to the site, the better it will be, the more useful, and the better for advancing A and refuting C.
Here is how to submit material to SEA’s website (http://evangelicalarminians.org/):
First, go to the site and, if necessary, sign in (anyone submitting material to the site directly needs to have a user account and to have been assigned the appropriate privileges; make sure you have a user account; and then if for some reason you do not have the necessary privileges, let us know through the Google site so that someone on the web team can give you the proper privileges; upon creating a user account initially, please let us know your user name so we can give you the proper site privileges).
Next, at the left center of the home page, you should see a plus sign followed by the word “New”. Put your cursor over them, and then choose “post”. Alternatively, you could log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard), click the “Posts” tab, and then click the “Add New” Sub Tab.
Next, put the title of the submission in the title box. For articles, please put the name of the author in the title, like this: Brian Abasciano, “Corporate Election in Romans 9”. If an article has already been published in a book or journal, or is by a recognized scholar (a published author or someone with a doctorate), then switch the status to “Pending Review” by clicking the Pending Review box on the right side of the page (this will alert the review team that the post does not need to be reviewed for its consent). However, if the article has not already been published or is not by a scholar, then please click on “Save Draft” towards the top of the page, center right, when you are done adding your material.
Next, put the substance of the submission into the big box below the title box.
Please DO NOT put anything in the “excerpt” box if you see one.
Next, select any relevant topics in the categories listing on the right. If there is any topic NOT on the listing that you want to assign your post to, please click the “Add New Category” link and enter the name of the topic in the box that appears, and then click on the “Add New Category” button. Please DO NOT touch the “Parent category” drop down box unless you are adding a Scripture reference, which calls for inclusion under the Scripture Index category, or a name, for inclusion under the “Author/Scholar Index” (options there are “Arminian”, “Calvinist”, or “Other”. If you add a person’s name as a category, please enter the last name first with a period (commas don’t work rightly), followed by the first name. Also, please only use categories for posts and never tags.
If you are submitting an article in the form of a pdf (most preferable) or a word processor document, then in the body, say something like: “Please click on the link to view [insert the author name and title].” In the body, you can also give any comments you want to make about the article as well as any important information about it, such as where it was published if it has been published.
If you need to attach an article or other file, then click on “Add Media” on the top left immediately above the content box. The click on “Upload Files.” You can then either drag and drop your file or use the “Select Files” button to add the file from your computer. Once you have done that, then click on “Insert into post,” and a link will be inserted into your post. You can then put the linked post anywhere you want in your post.
If you are submitting a link to an article or resource on the internet, use the body to provide the link. You can place the link in the content box.
Here is something we encourage but do not require. It would be good to add an image with your post. Here’s how to do it: Find an appropriate image for the post and make sure it is on your computer. (If you don’t have one on your computer, you can search in Google images on a word or phrase related to the post and download the image of your choice to your computer.) At the very bottom right of your screen should be a link that says, “Set featured image”. Click on that, and then either choose an image from our site’s image library (mostly images used on other posts), or click on “Upload Files” and then on the “Select Files” button. Choose the file from your computer through the box that appears, and then click the “Set featured image” button.
Finally, click on “submit post” or “save draft” or the equivalent to submit the post. If an article has already been published in a book or journal, or is by a recognized scholar (a published author or someone with a doctorate), then save your submission as “pending” by clicking “edit” next to “Status: Draft” and then changing the status to “pending” (this will bypass the review process and put the article directly in the queue for publication). However, if the article has not already been published or is not by a scholar, then please save it as a draft so that the article can be reviewed by a moderator.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Let’s all put material on the site as able. And as usual, let there be no pressure. We should not feel as if we need to give time we don’t have. However, let’s also keep in mind that generally, the more we can do, the better for our cause and for the website that serves it.
