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Congrats, Nancy!
Shannon, whoa. =} Slow down. Most of the questions in your first post have been answered already. If you click on my username and look at my old posts, you'll find answers to some of them. But just take your time and browse the whole thread. You may find answers to questions you didn't think to ask! Your second post is a bit trickier each site is different. Essentials are just the things you want to highlight. Usually, they include some 101 type articles and then a few other topics that interest you. Browse around the About.com site and take a peek at what other people consider important.
A "hub" is an overview article with links to other articles. And I use the word "article" loosely, because About has lots of templates and you'll need to use a variety of them.
My suggestion is to take it a bit easy because you don't want to burn out before it starts. Clear your plate of other things in your life - make sure you're caught up in homework, reading, housework, etc. Browse other sites, look for links (outside linking is fine, but it is preferred that you link within About if you can) and just think about the flow you want for your site. A lot of the questions you have will become more clear when prep starts and you can see the templates and read through the mounds of documents about prep. =}
Fingers crossed for everyone waiting!
Christy
Shannon - just so you know, going over html won't help much in prep. About.com only uses html in the blog portion of the site (which isn't a big part of prep). For the rest of the documents, they use their own mark-up language.
Also, I have never heard About.com telling you what your essentials should be (maybe your case is unusual?). The five essentials are normally just the five most pertinent documents that you write during prep.
You need to create your categories (topics) and then basically write a few original pieces of content in each of your categories. Then you choose five of those pieces of content and link them into the essentials section.
Unlike most people here (and I am not criticizing anyone), I didn't find prep to be very overwhelming. I wrote 60-something original pieces of content during prep; other guides have only write 20 or so. I didn't write anything ahead of the time prep started, but I did outline my categories.
Good luck.
--Kori
Like I said, the html is just for the blog section (and a few of the newer tools), which isn't a big part of what you do in prep. But you should know how to bold, link, make a bulleted list, etc. The mark-up language that you need to use in the rest of the tools to write your documents is similar to html, but not exactly. It uses [] instead of <> and there's a bunch of other difference.Thanks for this information - that's good to know about the html part. So really, what all html is involved? Is it mostly just adding links to other articles and then bolding/making lists and that type of thing?
For the essentials aspect, basically this is what the e-mail said:
"Things we’d like to see in prep:
Please write your 5 Essentials in Prep, they should be: .... " and then they gave a list of 5 topics, so I'm assuming those are what they want them to be right?
Then they said in addition to that they'd like to see related articles on -and gave me another list of 3 topics. So from that information, I create my own topics, write on those 5 essentials and go from there?
It's comforting to know you didn't find it too overwhelming. I wonder what most Preppers find the most time-consuming, learning the tools and posting in the articles/links or doing the actual writing work.