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Welcome to the website for District 105C which features the Lions clubs in most of Yorkshire and North Derbyshire

part of Multiple District 105 which covers the UK and Ireland. The aim of this site is to provide individual member clubs with useful information about their fellow clubs, the district's structure including its directors and zone chairmen and to assist in the development of their own websites.In addition it is a showcase to non-members who may be interested in learning more about Lions International and may wish to join the organisation. A list of member clubs can be found under "About Lions and 105C" at the side of the page

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Information, Communication and Technology (I.C.T.)

District Officer is Lion Steve Cooper

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Building a club website

Download this page as a Word document

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1.                              Introduction                  

After considering the various options open to individual clubs I now recommend the use of an open source (=free) software program called Wordpress.  It is easy to use – if you can type a Word document and browse the web then you can use Wordpress. It does not even require you to install software on your computer.  I can install the software on the district server for you, you can create a site on the Wordpress server (wordpress.com) or you can choose a domain package from an ISP who offers a free installation of Wordpress.  The third choice will however cost you. 

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Reading .docx Word files

If you have an earlier version of Micrsoft Word you may be unable to view Word files created with the latest version, recogniseable by the file extension .docx

 Go to Microsft's website and download Wordviewer to overcome this problem.

 

Submitting articles to the district website

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On the website home page scroll down until you can see the Log in form in the left hand column.

Type in the user name and password that you have been given and click on Log in.  The screen will refresh.

Scroll back down the page to the Log in form where it will say "Hi, Tommy Atkins" or whatever your username is.

Above that log in form the User Menu will have appeared.  Click on Submit an article".

The screen will refresh again and this time "Submit an article" "Editor" will have appeared. Complete the title field.

Place your cursor in the text box below the various editing icons and type in your article.  The various icons should be intuitive but if you place your cursor over one a pop up will appear to indicate its purpose.

You can also prepare an article offline and simply paste it (Control+V) into the text box.

If you have any images you want to insert into the article place a marker there such as "photo 1" and email the photo to me at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

After you have finished the article and entered your name in the Author alias field scroll down the page and choose the relevant 'Section' and 'Category' from the dropdown lists.

Then scroll back up the page and click on Save.  You will receive the message:-

Thank you for your submission.  It wil b e reviewed before being posted on the site

Now scroll down to the log in form and click on log out.

I will receive an email informing me that an article has been submitted.  I will approve it, process any photos and add them to the article and email you to say that the article has been published.

Steve Cooper
District webmaster 

 
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