Torden — Hurray, things are running above average smooth these days with submitted content flowing in. To help out, Trell has stepped up to the plate as content admin. Furthermore, Atmo, Trent and Psunfragga have proven their worth through their contributions, and can now publish on their own. A big thanks to them for their efforts!
If you have no idea what we mean by “contribution”, you should know that it’s based on a collaborative effort between ourselves and you. Sharing is caring and there are 30 000 visitors each month who might get great value from your words. You can do so by logging in and pressing “write article” using the admin panel at the top, our admins will be notified when you press “submit”, check it, and publish it. If it’s of timesensitive nature, don’t hesitate to get in touch on f.ex #vanillatv or #vanillatf2 (IRC quakenet).
Matchticker: By invite (just request it!), you can fully add and edit matches. 2 updates: Tie option is removed from the poll, also if you mark a match as “tba” it won’t be shown in the sidebar.
As pr. usual, the site is dynamic, with plenty of features being worked on, valve time, but you’re always welcome to drop a request!
Posting an article – How to:
For reference, here’s a paste of our guidelines (as found in your admin panel on the top).
- Register / contribute: For authenticity, you’re required to register using your steam account the first time you enter. You can start contributing by clicking the appropriate button matching your content from the top quick access bar.
- Edit: The default editor window is in HTML. But you can click the “Visual” tab to create your posts in an easy word-like manner. No knowledge of HTML is needed. Note: If you only see 1 row of tools, click the button with multiple tiny squares.
- Add a video: Press the video button
- Adding a picture: There’s a button on top of the editor tool bar. Pictures above 627px width will automatically be resized.
- Add a flag: Dropdown menu in the visual editor. If your flag isn’t there, this list will help you for code
- Adding a match overview: Use the dropdown menu right in the tool bar over your editor, next to
- For headlines within a post, use Heading 3.
Additional, for self publishing authors
Unless it’s urgent, we still prefer posts to be submitted for review, so that we can coordinate the timing of posts.
Start your post with [ author=xx yournamehere ], for xx you fill in the two letter code of the country you’re from.
Use [nobot] to avoid the IRC bot spamming your upcoming post. This is useful for posts that aren’t that important.
Respect the site rules and guidelines for layout. Read the other guidelines, and don’t stray away from those without asking before publishing.
Use the “<!–more–>” tag to split up long posts with “continue reading”. There’s also a button for it.
Don’t overdo tags. Tagging by team is sufficient, tagging by player name is too much.
Use flags only once per mention of a Team/Player/misc. Flags look the best in lists.
Generally if you want extra emphasis, players get italics, teams get bold. As a rule of thumb, less is more.
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2011-09-28 by torden.
Recovered from the Internet Archive (archived copy) as part of tf2esports.com's preservation of VanillaTV's TF2 coverage. The original site is no longer online. All rights remain with the original author; reposted for historical reference.