Performing arts publication

Performing Arts Review Publication

• Log in to [[1]]
• Most recent items will show up at the top of the list. If you like you may toggle the Select Category menu which will allow you to see only the Film Reviews, Theatre Review, Visual Arts etc, depending on what kind of review it is.
• You may also toggle the "Select publishing state" to see only the unpublished items.
• Click on the title to edit the review.
• Check that the review has an AP style headline.
• Leave "Featured" unchecked for now.
• Check that the review has some relevant tags (correctly spelled). If not, add a few or remove and replace misspelled tags.
• Toggle the Author and Publishing Status. Here you can change the Creation Date, which will determine position of the review in the section (reviews are listed chronologically by date), and you may also choose when to start publishing if you wish.
• Check Extra Fields for accuracy.
• Review the Metadata Information to make sure there's a description (the lede) and some good keywords.
• Review both the lede and the body text. Perhaps click on the show/hide to examine the html code if the spacing or formating looks off.

Images

• Click on Image. Here you will add the image.
• Size: Images must be 600 pixels wide by 400 pixels tall.
• Browse for your image and upload it. JPG, GIF or PNG formats are preferred.
• Ignore "Item image caption."
• You must fill out the "Image item credit" field. This is mandatory.
• If you know the photographer's name, include it. If you know both the photographer's name and you found it on a specific website, use this format:
• John Smith / stlshakespeare.org
• If you only have the website at which the image was located, use a short version of the URL for the home page of the site (do not include http:// or www) ala this format:
  • stlshakespeare.org
  • slso.org
  • repstl.org
• If the review looks good, check Yes for Published State and the click Save.
• Open another tab in your browser, find the article, look at it live on the site, and if you see any errors, go back and try to fix.
• Problems with publication or images should be addressed to roy at kdhx dot org.

Suggestions for locating images

• For Film Reviews, try Googling for the official movie site and grabbing a still. Also try Googling for the Facebook page for the movie. Often those pages will have good, large photos.
• For Theatre Reviews, you may have to get creative. Consider contacting the theatre company by e-mail or Facebook and requesting a hi res (at least 600x400) image. Often, the company will get back to you the same day.
• The sites listed may have thematically related images that you can use if you simply can't find anything usable elsewhere. Do not merely steal images from the internet, if they are not "publicity" related to the production or if they are not in the public domain or if they are not sensibly covered by "free use."

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/sara_photos/ This is a good resource. Sara Finke is a KDHX staff photographer who does great work and has given us blanket permission to use her photos on Flickr, so long as you credit her.
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/
• http://www.flickr.com/commons
• http://www.flickr.com/groups/freeuse You may need to log in to your Flickr to save these images to your drive.
• http://www.sxc.hu/ Free library of images. You will need to sign up for a free account. When searching here, ignore the “premium” images and use the community images. Use images that say “Standard Restrictions apply.” Those are images that we can freely use.
• http://www.dotgovwatch.com/?/archives/8-The-Best-Copyright-Free-Photo-Libraries.html
• http://www.publicdomainpictures.net
• http://morguefile.com/
• http://www.everystockphoto.com/
• http://pdphoto.org/
• http://www.openphoto.net/
• http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
• http://www.picfindr.com/

If you need a photo editing tool, this free online image editor is pretty great:

http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

Note: Try to avoid increasing the size of a small image too much. If your image is sharp enough, you may increase the dimensions by maybe 30 pixels to get it to 600x400, but if you increase too much, you will pixelate the image.

If you need to, you may use one of these background textures to help flesh out a smaller image.

• http://wiki.kdhx.org/wiki/images/6/6d/Stockfilmreview1.jpg
• http://wiki.kdhx.org/wiki/images/0/0a/Stocktheatrereview1.jpg
• http://wiki.kdhx.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Stocktheatrereview2.jpg

Corrections to Published Articles

• If a published article on KDHX.org requires a factual correction, you may simply correct the mistake, and then append a note in italics at the bottom of the article.
• For instance, if a theatre review incorrectly identified an actor, the correction note would look like this:
  • Correction: The review originally cited Nick Henderson in the role of Ferdinand. In fact, Aaron Dodd played this part.
• Corrections of typos, misspellings etc. need not be noted at the end of the article. Only significant corrections of fact.
• Check out this [example].