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If stuck, check the documentation. If you're still stuck, the chat button in the footer opens up your support options on the page you're at. You should actually read the documentation anyway as you will find it an enormous help – we have provided general advice on running websites as well as ocPortal-specific advice.

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The news system is very flexible and can also be used for blogs and articles. It is actually possible for you to set a privilege (‘Have personal categories’, under the ‘Submission’ set of privileges) that allows all members of your site to have their own blog.

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You can quickly make edits to most data in ocPortal just by clicking on it and typing into the edit box that appears. This is one of many examples of cutting-edge &lsquo;<abbr title="Asynchronous Javascript and XML">AJAX</abbr>&rsquo; technology used within ocPortal.

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Want to discuss things with other ocPortal users? Visit the <a href="http://ocportal.com/forum/">ocPortal forum</a>.

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You can find just about anything using the Admin Zone search. You can even type in CSS class names and it will give you a link straight through to the code.

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You will find the &lsquo;Show template edit links&rsquo; and &lsquo;Template tree&rsquo; and &lsquo;Language&rsquo; options in the list of options in the footer very useful for changing the templates and language strings of the page you are viewing.

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The calendar is useful for much more than just group scheduling &ndash; the reminder system is particularly useful and allows it to be used as a secure substitute for a diary (as the Internet becomes available just about anywhere, the advantage to storing information on the Internet becomes more significant).

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If you are using Firefox, try the Firebug extension. It is a fantastic aid to themeing your website because it will allow you to quickly find how the CSS ties into the XHTML, and also let you interactively test changes. Firebug isn't a permanent editor though, so you'll need to manually copy any of your changes back into ocPortal's CSS and save them (another extension, Firediff, will help with that though). Most browsers now have an equivalent to Firebug built-in.

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If you have the associated notification enabled, ocPortal will send out notifications whenever it parses Comcode with broken links in it: this will help you make sure your website stays stable. If you clear your Comcode cache, then ocPortal will have to reparse all Comcode, and hence will pick up any newly broken links.