To edit the content on this page, click on “Edit”. This takes you to the screen seen here on the left, which is the page editor. This should very much resemble Microsoft Word. You can edit text just like you would in Word or in an email.

If you want to paste text in from another source, make sure you use the little clipboard with the “T” on it. You copy your text like normal, come to this page, click on the little clipboard “T” and then paste your information in there. This will strip all formatting and keep everything uniform. Adding images to your posts (NOT the Sponsor page – that’s below) Directly above the editing box, on the left hand side you will see a group of icons that look like this.

These are to upload: Picture, Video, Music or Media (e.g. PDF) Clicking on picture (the left-most one) will take you to the following popup where you can click to “Select Files” Selecting a file, will take you to this screen which allows you to customise what you want the picture to look like when it’s put into the page.

Important aspects are the TITLE, which should explain briefly what the image is, and so should the ALT text. You can leave caption and description (unless you want the picture to show some text below it), and the link URL can be modified so basically this will be where the image will link to if it’s clicked.

Alignment is an important one. If you want it to have text wrapped around it, and it positioned on the left, push “Left”. If you want it to be wrapped but have the image in the centre, then use “Centre” and if you want the same but right, use “Right”. If you want the image to not have any text wrapped around it, and it appears as it’s own row effectively, use “None”.

Select a size from the options, and then push “Insert into Post”. How to add to the Sponsors page (and if you want another image gallery, e.g. For winners) Down the left menu, towards the bottom you should see “Gallery” and below that, “Add Gallery / Images”. Click on this and you will see the image on the left.

Clicking Browse, will allow you to select your image.

For Sponsors page: Once you have selected one, it is very important that you change “in to” to “Sponsors” for the sponsors page, otherwise it will not appear. (If this step is forgotten, it is not a big deal to change, but it’s much easier to change at this point).

For a new gallery: First go up to “Add New Gallery” and then repeat the above but select the new Gallery name. There will be a certain code to paste into the page as well.

You then push “Upload Images” and wait… Effectively, you’re done! This has now added the image to the sponsors page, but there’s an extra step that will give it more functionality.

Jump down the left hand-side again, and this time below Gallery, go to “Manage Gallery”.

This will take you to a page like that on the left.

In here, you can change the Alt & Title Text again (so make this the name of the company or similar). You can ignore “Tags” and you can use “Exclude” if you want to remove the image from the list temporarily. The most important one in here is Custom Website Link. In here you can paste a website for where you want the image to link to! I have made Asics go to their website for example.

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