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Now that you have found and uploaded graphics/images to your SOAR website, it is time to add one of them to the content of one your your website pages.

For demonstration purposes we are going to add a graphic/image to your About Us page. The procedure below can be used anytime you see the Rich Text Editor.

Step by Step instructions

• Login to your SOAR website using an account that has Add Account/Leader or Administrative rights.
• On the Menu on the left, click on the About Us item.
  • Note: You may have changed the name of this page, find the page that is Public and describes your unit.

The easiest way to use graphics/images on your SOAR website is through the Rich Text Editor.

Do the following to turn on the Rich Text Editor for your SOAR website

Step by Step instructions

• Login to your SOAR website using an account that has Add Account/Leader or Administrative rights.
• On the Administrative menu on the left, click on the Control Panel menu item.
• Click on the Default Editor button.
• Click the checkbox for Rich Text
• If you want to use the Rich Text Editor for Announcements, also click the chekbox for "Use Rich Text Editor" in the Annoncements section.
  

Now that you have a collection of graphics/images on your local computer, you need to get those images/graphics up on your SOAR website so you can use them.

For an image/graphic to be used on your SOAR website, it must be already on the Internet someplace. What better place to store them than directly inside your SOAR website.

SOAR provides two upload tools for you use to move graphics/images from your local computer onto your SOAR website.

Site Graphics

• This should be the primary tool you use for uploading graphics/images, unless you are uploading photos from a digital camera.
  

The first step is to find graphics/images that you want to use on your website.

If you already have images on your local computer that you want to use, congratulations you can skip to the next step.

Lets go find some graphics/images on the Internet that you can use.

Step by Step instructions

• Browse to BSA Clip Art.
• Click on the "Color" link next to "Arrow of Light".
• You can now see the Arrow of Light image
• Place your cursor over the image, and right-click the mouse
  

This guide will walk you through the steps required to use images/graphics effectively within your website.

This guide will primarily focus on adding graphics to content through the Rich Text Editor - i.e Announcements, Events, and Custom Pages.

This section contains tutorials on how to accomplish specific tasks.

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We do this to ensure good communication with our customers and to make you aware of the issue so you can answer questions raised by your unit members.

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SOAR Customers,

We are pleased to announce that our next release will be on September 3rd, 2009 and will include all new Site Themes and a number of new theme related features.

As you may know, this release has taken us much longer than we anticipated. It took quite a bit of time to thoroughly test a number of new technologies to be used in the release and to integrate those technologies that proved reliable. The current Site Themes were developed by a 3rd party consultant and unfortunately have limited both us in development and you (our customers) in personalizing your website. For this reason the new themes (HTML and CSS) have be rewritten from scratch to overcome these limitations and to add in new technologies/features.

Only someone with Administrative persmissions can edit ALL registrations.

Registrations cannot be deleted, for historical reasons. Registrations can be changed so that the number attending is zero (0). This effectively "unregisters" the person while also keeping a record that they initially signed up for the event.

If the Edit Own option of Event Signup is used, members may be able to edit their own registrations.