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Styling your Content Features with Padding

You can ad padding to all your content features (text areas, images, content lists, contact boxes etc.) in order to determine their exact position. Padding is space, measured in pixels, which is added to your all four sides of a feature. This is done clockwise, starting at the top, then the right side, the bottom and the left side. This means you can choose how much space (=how many pixels) you want to have between two images, for instance, that are displayed underneath each other or to...

Editing Media, additional and feature images

Blog posts, photos, news articles, real estate properties, business listings, communities and comments are considered as Media. Media is dynamic, changing content versus status content which is uploaded to a particular spot on a certain page and provides general information. Media is changing regularly, like blog posts and can be uploaded and displayed through a Content List Once your media is published it will be visible on your Add/Edit Content screen, the matching content lists and on...

Text Area

The Text Area is used to display static content that means text that will not change very often but gives general information (e.g. a welcoming text on the home page, a constitution, general information about an organisation etc.). You need to put a Text Area feature onto your page where you want to display your text. Go to Edit Page > Change Layout or Add Feature and drag Text Area from the left bar to where you want to have that text displayed. Then click Edit on the Text Area feature box...

User uploaded Content

You as the website owner can allow users to upload content onto your website. This is a very powerful tool as it can generate a lot of visitors and original content for your website. Visitors can sign up and create an account on your site and then upload content that had been specified by you. You can decide which media type visitors can upload, like blog posts, photos, news articles etc. You have to allow the Community Content functionality under Settings > Network. There you can choose the...

Tags

Tags are very important on Lara and the entire .geographical media network. They help your website and content to be more exposed and visible and increase the page views of your website. Tags are descriptive words that summarize and describe a particular media item. A photo of two playing children at the beach, for instance, could be tagged with “children, people, beach, sand”. Those tags will appear in the “Related Topics” section next to the photo on the show media page. When clicking...

Resize Image

Photos being added to your pages (not through a content list) can be changed in size. The uploaded photo is automatically resized to fit the size of the image feature box, meaning even if you upload a big image it will always fit into your section on the page. If you decide to resize your image you can do that by clicking on Edit Page which loads the Edit tools and then Edit on your Image feature box. Click Resize and then click on the little box at the bottom right corner of the image. Click...

Page Layout

Your pages are organised in columns and rows in which you can put media features. Every page can have a unique layout and can be changed to another layout at anytime. To lay out a page go to that particular page and click Edit Page at the top of your screen and then Change Layout or Add Feature. You will then see your current page organised in columns and rows and a box with all available features as well as the layout controls. In order to make changes to your page layout click Change Layout....

Floating text around an image

You can float (static) text around a (static) image. For instance, you have a relatively small photo (let’s say 300px x 327px) that you want to be on the top left side and have your main text going around it. Just like on the main image. To do this put your image and the text into a one column row: Edit Page > Change Layout/Add Feature and select this layout from the layout options on the left (under Change Layout). Put the image on top of the text area. Upload your image and text as...

Media Actions - email, enquire, promote and social bookmarking

The Media Actions are special tools for the users to work with media. Users can email media (photos, posts, articles, properties etc.) to friends, enquire, use social bookmarkings or promote. This generates a lot of exposure for your content and allows an interaction of website visitor and owner. Media Features are available on Show Media Pages, meaning the full page the media (photo, blog post, real estate property etc.) is displayed on. You can choose and select the kind of media actions...

User accounts, administrators’/editors’ accounts, contact list

There are several ways and options how people use your site. Lara is ideal for having a team of individuals working on and managing a website from individual secure accounts. Anonymous Users Those are users are not signed in. Anonymous users can visit and browse your website, promote, comment on, email and enquire about media items as well as use the social bookmarking features. All this will be done anonymously so their (user) names will not show up anywhere. User sign up You can allow...