How-tos

Step-by-step instructions.

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Get Involved In Landcare: Why join Landcare? People get involved for many different reasons
How to use this resource: A brief description of how you use and contribute to the Help Center.
What is Landcare?: Landcare is a joint effort between the community, government and business to protect and repair our environment.

Use the Gateway

Change personal settings: How to change personal settings such as password and email address.
Get your password: If you can't remember your password then you can use the 'lost password' tool to reset it.
How to join a Gateway: How to join a Gateway Website as a registered user, to enable access to load group information, join discussions or make comments.
How to Subscribe: Users who have joined a Gateway site, and logged in, are able to subscribe to email notices of new content on the site, and manage their subscriptions.
How you can participate.: There are many ways that people can participate, either online via the Gateway, or on the ground.
Making use of maps: How to add map coordinates to your content and make use of the Gateway's build in mapping features.
Send a message to content authors: Gateway website users can send an email message to the authors of content on the site, without authors needing to make their email address public.

Add or Manage Content

Adding Content: This document covers the basics of adding new content to your site.
Alternatives to HTML and the Visual Editor: If you can't (or don't want to) use the visual editor, there are several good alternatives for entering body text.
Create a Group website: How to create a section for a Landcare or related organisation that will show in the Organisations list.
Create a photo album: The gateway has the ability to create photo albums, or collections of photos, which display as thumbnails, but can show full size.
Create a web page: How to create a web page on a Gateway site.
Create folders: How to create folders for various content in a group area.
Get a news item listed: How groups can have their news listed on the News page of a Gateway.
Get a What's New page: Groups or networks who have plenty of information or folders in their site can have a page that displays the latest changes to their area. This will allow other users to quickly see a list of information added for them to browse.
Get an event listed: How groups can have their events listed on the Events calendar of a Gateway.
Get rights to manage a group website: How community representatives can get permission to add information where there is a section already created on a Gateway site for a Landcare or related group.
Make content visible: All content can have a range of states of visibility. This how-to outlines what the various types of states are, and how to publish content.
Making use of maps: How to add map coordinates to your content and make use of the Gateway's build in mapping features.
Set effective and expiration dates: Almost all content created on a Gateway site can have times and dates set for when these become publicly visible, or hidden.
Sharing and granting editing rights: How to grant editing rights to another gateway user.
Tour of Editing Options: An introduction to the major options for controlling your content.
Using the Visual Editor: How to use the Kupu rich text editor to edit and style text.

News: Cactus pamphlet Oct 09, 2008; new grader board Oct 09, 2008; Manangatang Robinvale Landcare Groups Newsletter Winter 08 Oct 08, 2008; Manangatang Newsletter Winter 08 Oct 08, 2008; Weedspotter Training in the North East Oct 01, 2008; More news…

Events: Community Platypus Survey - Upper Murray Upper Murray,
Oct 11, 2008; Depot Working Bees Flemington Stockyards,
Oct 12, 2008; Community Creek Walk and BBQ (Meet at) Campbells Creek Park,
Oct 12, 2008; Millewa Carwarp AGM Werrimull Hotel,
Oct 14, 2008; October Committee Meeting of Castlemaine Landcare Group Herons Gallery, corner Hargreaves & Lyttleton Streets, Castlemaine,
Oct 17, 2008; Previous events…; Upcoming events…

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