OFC - Ontario Football Conference

    How to register and login to the website - How to become authorized to update the shared areas of the OFC website. How to add an Article (called “an Item”) on the website. How to update your game scores & results on the OFC calendar How to add photos How to add videos How to synchronize with OFC’s Google Calendar How to upload a logo and club photo How to add a Player of the Week How to register and login to the website – Use Internet Explorer or Firefox explorer for best compatibility. Surf to www.ofcfootball.com. Click Register and set up a new user id and password. Click on the link provided in your email – to validate you on the website. Click Login, enter your userid and password, anytime you return to the website. How to become authorized to update the shared areas of the OFC website… (you do not need this to create and manage your own articles). After you register, send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Ed) or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Sam) or Rob This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . In your email, mention that you need permissions to either 1) publish your updates onto the website, or 2) approve your most recent article Note:  We are working out the best process to allow new articles to be added to the site. At some point everyone will be permitted to publish, but not initially. We apologize for any inconvenience. How to add an Article (called “an Item”) on the website. Login to the website (after registration is complete –see #1) Click the “Add a News Article” Tab – Click “Add new item” Enter a Title for your article “Title alias” can be left empty Tags – type “Varsity” ; Titans - whatever is appropriate Published = Yes Feature = Blank Choose a Category – Click to select 1 category or shift-click to select multiple. Most articles go in “Sport News”, Sport News-“Varsity”, or Sport News-“Junior” From the Content text box, add a brief description (20 or 30 characters) Click the More button just under your text box (a line will appear after your summary text.) Paste or write the article you wanted to submit. Click “Images” – and select “Browse” to upload from your PC; “Browse server” – to use an existing image. Click “Video” – and point to YouTube – or one of dozens of other video sources-  and enter your video id #. Click “Save” – and confirm that the blue “Item saved” message appears.   Click the “X” (upper right) to exit the Add/Edit Articles screen and return to the website. Your article will be published within the next day or two to the website. We will assign users permissions to “publish immediately” as required. Edit posted articles anytime by logging into the site and click on “Edit Item” Note:  You will  only see the “Edit item” prompt when you have system permissions. How to update your game scores & results on the OFC calendar You need Shared Access to update – see #2 Login to the Admin Console http://www.ofcfootball.com/administrator ... In the upper menu, select Components, JoomSport, Match Day Select Tournament – Spring 2011 for example; and then click on the Game Weekend of the Match   Make a few simple updates as follows:   This software allows us to do quite a lot. To start us out safely, we just want clubs to add Game Highlights initially – as follows: Optional additions to the Match description are below the About Match box. Fill this in if you like… How to add photos to the OFC website ? See instructions in the Cooliris photo upload instructions - click here. How to add videos? Pending How to synchronize with OFC’s Google Calendar Pending How to upload a logo and club photo to the OFC Website Login to the Administrators webpage at http://ofcfootball.com/administrator Select Compents->JoomSport->Teams from the main menu If your Team isn’t in the list, Click “New”… If your team is on the list, click on Your Team Fill in, or update, the form: Enter your Team Name City Upload a logo Enter a description about your team To upload a couple of photos of your team, click on the “Browse” button and find the files on your home computer.   11. Adding a “Player of the Week” to the OFC website. 1. Use #3 in the FAQ to get started adding a new Article/Item. 2. Setup your article per instructions in the photo below. 3. To add a Player of the Week photo – follow these instructions...