Resources -> Book Reviews
The Book Reviews section is meant for sharing information about books. Building up a comprehensive database of books is easy. The database includes important information about the books. You can also review any book that is in the database. The reviews are public and you can comment on them.
There are three main views in the Book Reviews section: book listing, book reviews, adding and editing information.
Book listing view
The listing view has a lot of useful information about the books in the database.
There are many ways you can sort the books:
Click any of the column titles to sort the books accordingly.
Click an author's name to view all the books by that author.
Click a publisher's name to view all the books published by that publisher.
Click a book's name to view more detailed information and reviews on it.
Form elements:
Add book - Click to add a book to the database.
Book reviews view
This view is for information on the book, reviews of the book and comments on the reviews. The view is pretty bloated and quite complicated at first. The help information is divided into sections of the view (from top to bottom). Some sections of the view are not visible if there are no reviews and no comments:
Book information:
This section of the view has detailed information on the book. There are also two clickable buttons on the bottom that are self-explanatory.
Select a review:
This section of the view lists all the reviews of the book.
Click a review's name to view that review.
Click the Add review button to write a review of the book.
Review on book "x"
This section of the view is for the chosen review. This section of the view is only visible, if a review has been chosen in the Select a review section. If you wrote the review, you can edit it by clicking the Modify review text on the bottom of the section.
Comments on the review
This section of the view is for the comments on the chosen review. This section of the view is only visible, if a review has been chosen in the Select a review section and there are comments on that review.
Comment the review
This section of the view is for commenting the chosen review. This section is only of the view is only visible, if a review has been chosen in the Select a review section.
Enter your comment in the textbox and click the Post the comment button to save it.
Adding and editing information views
There are four views for adding and editing information: Add new book to database, edit book information, add new review, edit review. This help will cover adding books and reviews since the editing views don't differ much from them.
Add new book to database
This view is for adding a new book to the database.
Rows:
Name of the book - Enter the name of the book.
Author - Enter the author of the book.
ISBN - Enter the book's identification number (can be found on the back of the book).
Publisher - Enter the publisher of the book.
Publishing year - Enter the publishing year of the book.
Book description / other info - Enter a brief description and other info.
Form objects:
Add book - Click to add the book to the database.
Cancel - Click to cancel the action and return to the book listing view.
Pictures menu - Choose a picture for the book information page.
The row of buttons under the Pictures menu (from left to right):
Preview - Click to preview the selected picture (popup window).
Delete -Click to delete the selected picture.
Add picture input field - Enter the path of the picture you want to add to the list of useable pictures.
Browse... - Click to browse your harddrive for the picture.
Upload - Click to upload the picture you have select / entered the path for.
Add review
This view is for adding a review. There are a lot of buttons and it might seem complicated at first, so it is probably a good idea to play around with the features before you actually start to write your first review.
Rows:
Headline - Enter the review's headline.
Menus and buttons:
The row of buttons above the big textbox (from left to right):
Reset - Click to reset the whole form back to the way it was when you loaded the page.
Save - Click to save the article.
Preview - Click to preview the review (popup window).
Listing - Click to go back to the book information page. The review will not be saved!
- The following buttons are irrelevant if you know how to use I-tags:
Bold - Click to enter bold text into the input field in the popup window.
Italic - Click to enter italic text into the input field in the popup window.
Underlined - Click to enter underlined text into the input field in the popup window.
Hyperlink - Click to enter the links URL and a name for the in link in the two popup windows.
E-mail link - Click to enter the e-mail address and a name for the in link in the two popup windows.
Big textbox - Write the actual review here. When you add elements like bold or italic text, make sure the blinking line | is in the right place in the box.
Rating - Choose a rating for the book.
Pictures menu - Choose a picture to insert into the review, preview or delete.
The row of buttons under the Pictures menu (from left to right):
Insert -Click to insert the selected picture into the review.
Preview - Click to preview the selected picture (popup window).
Delete -Click to delete the selected picture.
Add picture input field - Enter the path of the picture you want to add to the list of useable pictures here.
Browse... - Click to browse your harddrive for the picture.
Upload - Click to upload the picture you have select / entered the path for.
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