Pound Pup Legacy

Pound Pup Legacy aims to be a web-resource on child-placement, neglect, abandonment, abuse and it's influence on  the personal lives of those involved and society at large. As such we are collecting and creating content related to these subects.

Knowing the breadth of the scope of our website, we have set up several groups, which you can find in the "Groups" box in the menu. Each group contains several different types of posts and is dedicated to certain topics.

Subscription

By becoming a member of Pound Pup Legacy you can help us become an authoritative resource on the subjects we address. Signing up you can by following the link Create new account in the "login" box of the menu. When you follow the sign-up procedure, you will receive an email with instructions how to finalize your subscription.

Once you are signed up and logged in, you will be ready to use the website. In the "content" box of the menu you will now have an entry Recent posts, which shows the posts in all groups you are subscribed to. Initially you will be subscribed to all groups listed in the "Groups" box in the menu. You can subscribe/unsubscribe to these groups whenever you wish.

Groups

Being subscribed to a group gives the following extra options:

• make posts within the group
• read posts private to the group
• see posts made in the group in your Recent posts

All groups can be accessed from the "Groups" box in the menu and through the front page.

Each group has it's own home page, which:

• lists several topics the group is dealing with;
• lists the last five post tagged with the group's topic;
• list the latest ten posts made to the group.

Posting

When on a group's home page, a box shows up in the menu, bearing the name of the group. This box lists the types of posts you can make. When you choose to create a post, an editor page appears. Each editor page has a mandatory title and most types have a text editor, which is described here.

On the editor page you can find a "groups" section, you can use to determine the groups you want to post in. The default setting makes the post public and published in the group you are currently in. You can make a post available in more than one group, by toggling the check-boxes in the groups section. By default, posts are public, in which case everyone can read the post. Unchecking the public setting makes the post available only to subscribers of the group.

Most editor pages include a text box having the title "Topics". In this text box you can enter terms you want to tag your post with. While typing, suggestions will be given for known terms. These suggestions can be chosen and we recommend you do that as much as possible. By convention terms are written lower case, except for proper names and when referring to groups.

Topics

All posts can be tagged with terms that describe the post. Those tags are shown underneath the post. This post eg. has the tags "Site talk" and "PPL website". Clicking the tag links will take you to a topics page, listing all posts tagged with that term.

Using topics we can bring together related posts, making sure older, but interesting posts remain to be read.

Each topic is a post of it's own, have a topics page with:

• a title
• an introductory text
• a bullet list of subtopics
• a teaser list of posts tagged with the term;

When you introduce a new term to the website, a topics page is created with the term as its title and your post as its only post in the teaser list. Any subsequent post tagged with the same term will be added to the teaser list.

Members with "Editor" role can edit a topic page:

• writing an introductory text;
• making it subtopic of another topic

If you want to help out editing topics please contact me.

Groups as Topics

Each group is a topic in its own right and is used to bring together several topics relevant to that group. It also shows a teaser list of the posts tagged with the name of the group. A groups home page therefore is a topics page with an additional list of posts made to that group. So if you want your post to be listed on the groups home page, tag it with the name of the group. Groups always start with an upper case letter as opposed to normal topics.

Types

Each group has its own set of types, though most have the following in common:

• Discussions,
• Blogs,
• Polls,
• Articles,
• Images,
• Videos,
• Amazon books.

Types can be created and for some groups we have used special types to post special content, an example of that is the Prison Pup Program groups, where we collect information about prison pup programs. If you have information that would require special handling, please contact me, to set up the proper types.

Teaser

A teaser shows the title of your post and for most types the first paragraph of the text you wrote.