on the basis of which points will u write a tour report
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Preparation Is Everything
The most important thing you'll need to know is that you should do almost all of the creating before even opening up the Create Page dialog on Summitpost. You have to write a draft version. In principle, you can use any editor you like, but as I'll explain later, some editors can be more useful than others. MS Word can do the job, and even Notepad works, sort of. You might want to keep in mind that Summitpost is based on HTML, but if you don't know HTML and don't want to learn it, just ignore this for the time being. I'll get back on that.
For any good trip report, you'll need the text of your story. Ideally it would be well written and proper English, but if I have to choose, I'll prefer an engaging story in bad English over a boring one any day. I'm not formally trained in creative writing, I just have a stab at it, but there are courses on that.
For the record, Summitpost accepts Trip Reports without text at all, but the type Album is more suitable for that. In fact, I regularly create an Album instead of a Trip Report when I only have a short bit of text and the photos are the main thing.
A good trip report also needs pictures. You'll need them to illustrate the story, but also to give the readers some eye candy. Besides, no matter how well written, a story with only text often goes unnoticed, and pictures will greatly liven up the flow of the text. Even using exactly the same text and images, the position where you put them can make a big difference on the quality of the report. For example, all pictures on the right is boring. Even something as simple as putting them more or less randomly left and right makes it look much better. There are much more fancy ways of positioning images, but I won't go into that right now.
Unfortunately, the options of positioning images in this forum are very limited, which is why this is mostly text, but here is some eye candy to remember what Summitpost is all about.
Image
The Images
So, by now you've written your trip report, inserted pictures at appropriate spots, and are ready to post it all on summitpost.
One of your questions is how to insert the pictures. Well, the Create Page / Trip Report has an Insert Image button above each of the Section Bodies. That's the easiest way to add an image to the report, left, right or center, and in various sizes, but the image must already be posted on Summitpost. For that reason, I usually start by posting all the images that I'm going to use. You can already attach the images to the pertinent mountain/rock, area, et cetera at this stage. When writing the draft version ouside Summitpost, be it in MS Word or in an HTML editor, you can already insert the actual Summitpost image, although it may take a bit of doing to get it displayed in the right size - but that's not very important right now. Alternatively, you can use local copies of your images, which, of course, is better if you want to keep a complete backup of the whole thing.
The alternative would be to first post a trip report with only text, then post the images and edit the report, inserting them one by one at the place that you want. I find that cumbersome, but others do it that way. You'll have to find out which way you like best.
You can also add images without using the Insert Image button. You'll need to know some HTML to do that, but the possibilities are endless. You can use images that are anywhere on the net (assuming that you are entitled to use them). You can have them in whatever size you want, and if an image is bigger than a typical window, you can add scrollbars around it. However, it's a good thing to remember that in some parts of the world it still takes forever to download a large image, and Summitpost has an international audience! And, if you go totally overboard with HTML, your trip report can end up looking rather different than the typical look and feel of the others on Summitpost, and if there ever is a major overhaul of the site, fancy HTML may not quite look the same anymore.
While not mandatory, a Trip Report should have a Primary Image. That can only be an image on Summitpost, and you can select it with the Find Image link in the dialog.
Image
Posting The Trip Report
The most important thing you'll need to know is that you should do almost all of the creating before even opening up the Create Page dialog on Summitpost. You have to write a draft version. In principle, you can use any editor you like, but as I'll explain later, some editors can be more useful than others. MS Word can do the job, and even Notepad works, sort of. You might want to keep in mind that Summitpost is based on HTML, but if you don't know HTML and don't want to learn it, just ignore this for the time being. I'll get back on that.
For any good trip report, you'll need the text of your story. Ideally it would be well written and proper English, but if I have to choose, I'll prefer an engaging story in bad English over a boring one any day. I'm not formally trained in creative writing, I just have a stab at it, but there are courses on that.
For the record, Summitpost accepts Trip Reports without text at all, but the type Album is more suitable for that. In fact, I regularly create an Album instead of a Trip Report when I only have a short bit of text and the photos are the main thing.
A good trip report also needs pictures. You'll need them to illustrate the story, but also to give the readers some eye candy. Besides, no matter how well written, a story with only text often goes unnoticed, and pictures will greatly liven up the flow of the text. Even using exactly the same text and images, the position where you put them can make a big difference on the quality of the report. For example, all pictures on the right is boring. Even something as simple as putting them more or less randomly left and right makes it look much better. There are much more fancy ways of positioning images, but I won't go into that right now.
Unfortunately, the options of positioning images in this forum are very limited, which is why this is mostly text, but here is some eye candy to remember what Summitpost is all about.
Image
The Images
So, by now you've written your trip report, inserted pictures at appropriate spots, and are ready to post it all on summitpost.
One of your questions is how to insert the pictures. Well, the Create Page / Trip Report has an Insert Image button above each of the Section Bodies. That's the easiest way to add an image to the report, left, right or center, and in various sizes, but the image must already be posted on Summitpost. For that reason, I usually start by posting all the images that I'm going to use. You can already attach the images to the pertinent mountain/rock, area, et cetera at this stage. When writing the draft version ouside Summitpost, be it in MS Word or in an HTML editor, you can already insert the actual Summitpost image, although it may take a bit of doing to get it displayed in the right size - but that's not very important right now. Alternatively, you can use local copies of your images, which, of course, is better if you want to keep a complete backup of the whole thing.
The alternative would be to first post a trip report with only text, then post the images and edit the report, inserting them one by one at the place that you want. I find that cumbersome, but others do it that way. You'll have to find out which way you like best.
You can also add images without using the Insert Image button. You'll need to know some HTML to do that, but the possibilities are endless. You can use images that are anywhere on the net (assuming that you are entitled to use them). You can have them in whatever size you want, and if an image is bigger than a typical window, you can add scrollbars around it. However, it's a good thing to remember that in some parts of the world it still takes forever to download a large image, and Summitpost has an international audience! And, if you go totally overboard with HTML, your trip report can end up looking rather different than the typical look and feel of the others on Summitpost, and if there ever is a major overhaul of the site, fancy HTML may not quite look the same anymore.
While not mandatory, a Trip Report should have a Primary Image. That can only be an image on Summitpost, and you can select it with the Find Image link in the dialog.
Image
Posting The Trip Report
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but actually i wanted the points..
so pls if u could help me with that it would be great
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i write it the 60 or above points because report writing is so long and one thing is here if yogive questions of 60 points we get only 30 points
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