| News
Reporting Stylebook |
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| If you're
seeing this it means you've been selected as part of the staff and are on
the news reporting team in conjunction with your moderator responsibilities. This stylebook is for mostly helping you with sources
of where to look at news, and how to format your text properly for news
reports. Remember to follow this exactly and be sure to read and refer to this if you ever get stuck. |
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| Sources of
where to look for news: |
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| Entertainment Sites - Be sure to Check Googles News the most! It includes a round-up of all things Jurassic Park! |
Ain't-It-Cool-News
Dark Horizons
DVDReview
DVDFile
Google News
JWFan
Rope-Of-Silicon
Counting-Down.Com
JPIV News
The Digital Bits
IMDB's
List of Jurassic Park Films
Yahoo!
News - Jurassic Park
IGN
Jurassic Park IV News
Rotten
Tomatoes JPIV News
Hawaii Movie Tours
(HMT) |
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Sometimes
we have to rely on news that is found directly in the community. Here are
some sites to check out that seem to get the news scoops we missed or they got informed on first.
Note on
JP Web Community History: There has always been three-four dominant sites in the community's past and JPL is one of them. We can't forget about the other sites out there though.
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| Jurassic
Park Sites: |
Dan's
JP3 Page
JPToys
JPDatabase.Net
JurassicParkIV.Org
Modding
Genesis
TresCom
Welcome to Jurassic Park |
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| It is also
a good idea to keep your eyes on the Official Site(s) as they are updated from time to time! |
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| Official
Site: |
| Jurassic
Park |
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| Of course
if we have a news slump, as in meaning no new news on anything. We have
the latest paleontology finds to keep up with. Discovery News is always your best bet. If you can find it on another site, please don't be afraid to use it! I still reccomend posting it even if we're busy to indicate there's stuff going on in my favorite science. |
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| Dinosaur
Paleontology News |
Google News - Paleontology
Google News - Dinosaurs
Discovery News
Yahoo! News - Dinosaurs & Fossils
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| Now that we
have where to find the news we post that next step is to learn how we insert the news into the page, format it and post it on the main page. Remember to always source your information! Credit your source and link to your source! |
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Formatting
news can be rough sometimes, especially if you want it to be eye-catching.
A method that was used at inGenNET, albeit an annoying one by Neo_Maze, was to bold EVERY SINGLE word, but a few in the report. This catches eyes, and while Neo meant well it starts getting distracting and working against things I feel and so did other staffers at the time, like Varan and so forth.
If you like to bold a few words of your sentence you are more than welcome to do that. Bolding a few words though that you feel
are important helps though I do admit. The only big thing I have is that you cite your sources
for the news report properly and always. Notice this is the second time I've said this. Sourcing is key! |
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| The Basics! - Text Formatting: |
To Bold Text:
<b>Text</b>
To Underline
Text:
<u>Text</u>
To Italic
Text:
<i>Text</i> |
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| Quoting
an Article - What to do with copied bits: |
Sometimes
in articles you want to copy snippets from the article to deliever the main point. I always encourage this as it makes your news report more credible.
To Blockquote Text:
<blockquote><i>Highlight from Article That your are reporting
on</i></blockquote>
Now a lot of you will be tempted to press your "enter" key right after to insert a line break, while this is normal you don't always have to as Blockquote will automatically do a Line Break (<br> or your enter key) for you. I always press my enter key before doing the <blockquote> to give a bit of a buffer. |
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| How to Source! Linking
Articles & Thumbnail images |
Sourcing is key. Remember that! SOURCE YOUR ARTICLES! Why? For credibility reasons. This is how.
To Link to
an On-site Article - I use this if we launch a new section and I don't want them having to open a new window:
<a href="Insert the Web Address Here">Page Name</a>
Some of you may rarely use this and if you do it's probably because you helped in the creation of the section.
How to SOURCE YOUR ARTICLE! To Link to
An off site article use this code:
<a href="Insert the Web Address Here" target="_blank">Description
Text</a>
Always do this! ALWAYS SOURCE! ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS!
Say you want to include an image in your article that JPToys posted. Not only will you need FTP access, check with me if you don't have the information, but you'll need to remember the name you give your image.
Using a Thumbnail
to Link to a larger Picture:
<a href="Insert the Web Address Here for larger picture"
target="_blank"><img src="URL for thumb nail (smaller)
Image"></a>
When using thumbnail images please make sure your thumbnails are small.
This is important because if they aren't they'll be distorting the page. Also for added effect please add in an alignment option. Example(s) follow:
<a href="Insert the Web Address Here for larger picture"
target="_blank"><img src="URL for thumb nail (smaller)
Image" align="right" ></a>
Or
<a href="Insert the Web Address Here for larger picture"
target="_blank"><img src="URL for thumb nail (smaller)
Image" align="left" ></a>
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| Example: |
| This section
shows what an article with HTML Formatting looks like. This is basically what you do while typing. |
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| How the
Coding Fits: |
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Dwarf Dinosaurs
in Germany
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/" target="_blank">Yahoo
News</a> reports that German Scientists have found a new dinosaur
dubbed Europasaurus holgeri. Here's a snippet from the article:<blockquote><i>The
four-legged plant-eater was no lap dog: It measured about 20 feet from its
snout to the tip of its long tail and it weighed about a ton.
But next
to its close evolutionary cousin Camarasaurus, a well-known beast that
stretched some 59 feet long, this guy was a runt.
What happened?
The researchers say it's a case of island dwarfism, the tendency of big
species to shrink over time when they find themselves on an island. It's
well-known among mammals, as with fossil elephants only about 3 feet tall
found in Sicily and elsewhere.
Scientists
think that in an environment of limited resources, smaller body size becomes
an advantage, and so captive populations shrink in body size over long
periods of time.
The new creature
is the best documented case of island dwarfism among dinosaurs, said P.
Martin Sander, a paleontologist at the University of Bonn in Germany and
lead author of a report in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
The creature,
dubbed Europasaurus holgeri, lived 154 million years ago near what is
now the German town of Goslar.</i></blockquote> You can read
the full article <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060609/ap_on_sc/dwarf_dinosaurs"
target="_blank">here</a> for more information about
this exciting find! |
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| What the
page looks like when the article is published on the main page: |
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Yahoo News reports
that German Scientists have found a new dinosaur dubbed Europasaurus holgeri.
Here's a snippet from the article:
The
four-legged plant-eater was no lap dog: It measured about 20 feet from
its snout to the tip of its long tail and it weighed about a ton.
But next to its close evolutionary cousin Camarasaurus, a well-known beast
that stretched some 59 feet long, this guy was a runt.
What happened? The researchers say it's a case of island dwarfism, the
tendency of big species to shrink over time when they find themselves
on an island. It's well-known among mammals, as with fossil elephants
only about 3 feet tall found in Sicily and elsewhere.
Scientists think that in an environment of limited resources, smaller
body size becomes an advantage, and so captive populations shrink in body
size over long periods of time.
The new creature is the best documented case of island dwarfism among
dinosaurs, said P. Martin Sander, a paleontologist at the University of
Bonn in Germany and lead author of a report in Thursday's issue of the
journal Nature.
The creature, dubbed Europasaurus holgeri, lived 154 million years ago
near what is now the German town of Goslar.
You can read
the full article here
for more information about this exciting find! |
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| Much
nicer with the formatting wouldn't you say? Always preview the article before
you go and post it to make sure your tags are closed! If you're interested
in learning further about HTML and other web-based programming languages
check out HTMLGoodies. |
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