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How do I change the colours used to display site pages for me?*

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Test Site*

What is the test site?*
What should I do if there are technical problems on the test site?*

Members*

Can I edit other members' profiles?*

News*

What are the guidelines for news items?*
How do I create a news item?*
Why doesn't my item appear on the home page?*
Why is the text not the right colour?*
How do I add an image to my news item?*
How do I include a large image from the database?*
Can I make the image float to the right instead?*
What about centering it?*
Can I have more than one image?*
OK, so what's the hard case?*
How do you stop an image protruding below the news item?*
How to I link a news item to a related article?*

Ratings*

How do I load ratings into the database?*
Is the name and format of a data file important?*
What is the format for rating lists?*
What is the format for provisional rating lists?*
What is the format for events rated lists?*
How do I check if my file of data uploaded correctly?*
What do I do if I make a mistake?*

Games*

How can I load games into the database?*
How do I type in a new game?*
How do I upload a PGN file?*
Are there different kinds of duplicate games?*
What is the Upload List?*
Can I edit a game that's already in the database?*
I uploaded the wrong PGN file. What do I do now?*
Are changes to the database synced to the download file?*
Can I include games in news items or articles?*

Articles*

How do I submit an article?*
What does visibility mean?*
In what circumstances would I want to restrict visibility?*
What markup should I include?*
What other stuff can I put in articles?*
What is ICUML?*
How do I include an image?*
How do I include a PGN game?*
Have I any control over how the game is rendered?*
How do I link to a collection of games?*
How do I include a chess diagram?*
How do I include a link to another article?*
How do I insert a link to a tournament?*
How do I insert an email link?*
Is there a maximum size for an article?*
I'm not sure about this. Can you show me an example?*
How do I create articles with multiple parts?*
Can I insert an article into the middle of an existing series?*
How do I remove an article from a series?*
How do I rearrange the order of a series of articles?*

Images*

What is the image database for?*
What sort of images can or should be added to the database?*
How do I upload an image to the database?*
What are the guidelines for describing images?*
Isn't a year in the description duplication?*

Tournaments*

How do I register a new tournament?*
What should I put for the tournament name?*
What about city and year?*
What are the category and type?*
What is the status for?*
Where do the tournament details go?*
Can I add images to tournaments?*

Calendar*

How do I enter a new event in the calendar?*
How do I set the latitude and longitude?*
How do I upload an entry form?*
How do I edit event or section details?*
How do I delete an event or section?*
Is there a quick way to add new sections?*

Clubs*

How do I register a new club?*
How do I geocode the club venue?*
How do I update the details of an existing club?*

Polls*

What are the polls for?*
How do I create a poll?*
How do I edit a poll I created and voted in?*
How do I edit a motion?*
How do I close (or open) a poll?*
Do I have to provide descriptions?*
Can I change polls owned by other editors?*

Administrators

Responsibilities

What responsibilities do administrators have?

Technical Overview*

What powers the ICU website?*
Are there two ICU sites?*
What's our account on the server?*
What's the control panel?*
How do I connect to the databases?*
What other hosting services are there?*
What's the file system layout?*

Howtos*

How do I put the site into maintenance mode?*
How do I reset somebody's password?*
ICU: how do I add/remove/replace post holders in the executive?*
ICU: how do I create an entirely new exective post?*
Security: how do I ban an abusive IP address?*
Security: how do I make a new editor?*
Security: how do I change the membership officer?*
Articles: what's a file article?*
Articles: how do I create a file article?*
Articles: what is an XML article?*
Articles: how do I create an XML article?*
FIDE ratings: how do we get them?*
FIDE players: how do we sync them?*
Season start: what do I need to do?*
How do I produce the Olympiad stats images?*
Cooking: what is it and how to control it?*
List of champions - how is it produced?*
Is there an FTP area on the site?*

Miscellaneous*

Do we have a Google account?*

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