below you’ll find some quick guidelines on writing for the site. it’s really not as complicated as it sounds and should mostly just used as a reference when needed. check it out and let me know if you have any suggestions or tips or any other questions.

if you’re posting a show or other event:
1) below the post form you’ll see a “event calendar” form. this adds the show to the calendar that’s on the right sidebar of the website. click the plus sign and put the date and time of the show in. this is a 24 hour clock! so 8PM would be 20:00. don’t worry about putting an ending time.

2) on the right side of the post form you’ll see something called “rs event”. this works very similarly to the event calendar. it makes the event into the text that you see below the calendar on the main page. for the time of day i recommend you set it to 23:55 because it’s kind of funky in that it takes the show off the front page several hours before it starts. so if you put down the show started at 8PM it might come off the list at 2PM. i don’t know why it does this.

3) feel free to post small images of a band or flyers (definitely prefer pictures of the bands). please upload them to the site through the upload thingy below the post form unless you personally are hosting the picture. images should be less than 500 or less pixels wide or else you should use the “insert thumbnail” option. read more about uploading below.

4) for the title put one or two bands in and the location of the show. for example: “kid dynamite reunion at the oaf house” or “kid dynamite, plastic mastery at the oaf house”. don’t use “@” because it looks fucked up in the event calendar.

5) please don’t just put an image of the flyer and leave it at that. it makes the site look like myspace and doesn’t really encourage discussion. flyer images are acceptable, but please put some accompanying text or SOMETHING. try and make it look like writing, and not just a list of shit. paragraphs are your friend.

5) post mp3s (read about it below)! and encourage discussion whenever possible.

6) we don’t want to encourage shows happening in shitty environments, so please don’t post them. this includes college frat bars.

7) no caps (lol)

anything else (articles, opinion, picture posts)
1) for now, there isn’t really much to worry about here. if it’s going to be a huge amount of text click the icon to the left of spell check that says “split this text with the more tag”. so you would just put the cursor where you want it to be split and from then on it’ll be on a seperate page.

2) relevant pictures are always good! just remember to keep it under 500 pixels wide or use the thumbnail. read below for tips on pictures/uploading

3) no caps (lol)

uploading pictures, mp3s, and other files:
so below the post writing box there is a form for uploading pictures. you can actually upload any file thats 25mb or less. so, if you’re trying to include a picture with the post do the following

1) file form. click the browse button and browse to where you have the picture saved and double click it.

2) title the picture. if it’s a picture of melt banana just put “melt banana”

3 description. maybe put some credits here like where you got it or the photographer. whatever you want really.

4) upload!

5) once it’s finished you’ll see a thumbnail of it with some options. if the image was already 500 pixels or less in width just click show: full size and link to: page and click send to editor.
that’s it!

if you’re uploading an mp3 or some other file just follow instructions 1-4 and once it’s uploaded choose link to file. if it’s an mp3 it’ll automatically make it play in the browser with the little play button.

OK I THINK THAT’S IT FOR NOW. it’s really not as complicated as it sounds! just use this as a reference.