You want to write about IIUM but you don’t want to put it in your personal blog? Then, you can write to IIUM Bloggers.com. Please read this guidelines before publishing your article to us.
- You can easily copy and paste the news. Please remove all the formatting first. It will have affect on the layout. You can see some or tags when you switch to HTML view in the post editing.
- Please state the source if you are quoting any articles, Quran, Hadith, blog or website.
- Please upload any images to free image hosting (Blogger Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket etc.)
- Administrator has the right to edit your content of your article if you don’t comply with these guidelines.
Formatting
Please use this format in your article.
Title
CATCHY TITLE OR HEAD LINES
Content
<img src=”PUT ANY THUMBNAIL IMAGE URL HERE” class=”alignleft”>
YOUR ARTICLE HERE. UP TO SECOND PARAGRAPH ONLY
THIS SECTION WILL BE DISPLAYED ON THE MAIN PAGE.
<!— more —>
THE REST OF YOUR ENTRY WILL BE HERE.
Tags
Put any interesting keyword here. Minimum is three.
Category
Please use the correct category. Maximum is three. E.g. Featured, Thoughts and Tazkirah.
Excerpt
PLEASE COPY AND PASTE FROM THE THUMBNAIL IMAGE AND THE FIRST PARAGRAPH. You may also rephrase your article or summarize it in 100 words.
How about the categories?
News from Media
- Any news or article that was taken from any newspaper website
- e.g. Utusan Malaysia Online, Berita Harian, News Straits Times, The Star, Harakah
Campus
- Any news or article that are not published in any newspaper
- Anything that related to our campus
Info
- Information, notice or announcement regarding academic or non-academic issue
- e.g. Wireless briefing, Pre-registration, examination schedule
Tazkirah
- Islamic message and reminders
- Please quote any Quranic verses or Hadith to support your articles too
Thoughts
- Random thoughts, personal view on some matters that UIA related
- e.g. What’s wrong with UIA administration or students? What do you think they should improve on?
Tips & Tricks
- Useful tips for students in daily life
- e.g. Computer or internet related topic, Personal development tips
Events
- announcement of the future events
- please include name of event, date, time, venue, admission, tentative
- please choose the sub-category of the venue (Gombak, Kuantan, PJ, Nilai)
- you can simply put the poster in the post (maximum size 400 width x 600 height)
How to get a quick thumbnail for your article?
1. Go to Google or Yahoo! Website
2. Set your search to Image
3. Search the image with correct keywords
4. When the search result was found, copy the URL of the image thumbnails. Small images will load fast on IIUM Bloggers website.
5. Maximum thumbnail size should be 120 x 120.
Here’s some of the thumbnails that you can use for your article.
Any images will do. Its up to your creativity. But make sure its a thumbnail.
So what are you waiting for, start post your articles now and drive traffic to your blog too!