How to submit a recipe
Follow these instructions to submit your recipe. A recipe can be a scan of a hand written recipe card, a link to a website, a document file you have in your computer, or you can simply type in a recipe.
We will start with:
Typing in a recipe
Clicking on the category, to the left, that you will be putting the recipe under.
Then click on the "New page" button in the upper right corner of the page that appears.
A new window will appear for you to enter a name for your page, put the name of your dish here.
Under the name field is a "Select a template to use" pull down menu. Select "Recipe".
Below this is "Select a location:" make sure you click the button for "Put page under …" (this will keep our recipes organized)
Click the red "Create" button toward the top of the page and a blank recipe page will be created for you.
Highlight the sample text for ingredients and preparation instructions and type in your recipe. You can also add a picture and more detailed description of the recipe above this section if you like. (To add a picture see instructions "Adding a photo to a recipe" below.)
When you are finished be sure to click the blue "Save" button at the top right.
DONE!
Submitting a scan, photo or document file of a recipe
Start by making sure you know where the file of the recipe is on your computer. (What folder it is stored in, etc.)
Click on the category, to the left, that you will be putting the recipe under.
On the page that appears and under the listing of typed recipes should be a row of white buttons, click on the "Add file" button.
A window listing the files on your computer should appear, find the file of the recipe you are adding and upload it to the site.
After a few moments your file will be added to the list under the white buttons. Scroll your mouse to the right of the file name you just submitted and a yellow box should highlight, click this to add a short description of your recipe.
DONE!
Adding a link to a recipe on a website
Copy the URL (web address) of the recipe page you would like to add here.
Click on the category, to the left, that you will be putting the recipe link under.
On the page that appears and under the listing of typed recipes should be a row of white buttons, click on the "Add link" button.
A window will appear for you to paste in the URL you copied and fields to name the recipe and to add a description.
Click the red "Add" button below these fields.
DONE!
Add a photo to a typed recipe on this site
Find and open the recipe that you would like to add a photo.
Click on the "Edit page" button in the upper right corner of the page. (The button is a pencil icon)
Click to put your cursor at the beginning of the line that says "Insert image of finished product"
In the upper left hand corner of the page is a pull down menu titled "Insert" click and pull down to "Image"
An "Add an Image" window will appear allowing you "Choose File" or add a web address URL of the image. (If you are adding a web address URL of the image you are adding then make sure you have copied the address prior to opening this window.)
If you are submitting a photo you have on your computer click the "Choose File" button and submit the photo file. (Your file will now be uploading to the site and a thumbnail of the image will eventually appear. Click on the thumbnail of the image to highlight it with a blue border and then click the "OK" button.
The image should now appear in the recipe window and it might be very large. To reduce the size click one of the S, M, L or Original buttons that appear over the image.
Click the blue "Save" button in the upper right hand corner of the window.
DONE!