It’s been a busy few weeks for our Online Editor, with upgrades being made on a regular basis.  Today, we’ve just rolled out the latest new feature which lets you select the thumbnail image displayed alongside your article after it is published on a site in our network.

Previously, we paired thumbnail images according to your article’s tags as best as possible.  Now you can decide which thumbnail to display.

You’ll now see a section of the Online Editor devoted to thumbnail selection. This thumbnail selection tool gives you relevant image options based on the content and tags of your article :

Click on “Find Images” to scan your article. In a few second, a row of thumbnail suggestions will appear below the button.  To select an image, simply click on it.  The selected image appears in the box to the far left.

To see more thumbnail options, click on “Find More Images” to scan your article again.

If you decide to save a draft of your article, your thumbnail selection will be saved as well.  You can change it again before you submit your article for publication.

When you’re ready, submit your article.  Once it’s been published, you’ll see your selected thumbnail appear next to the title and description of your article where it’s listed on the site of publication.

Happy publishing!

Following closely on the tail of our recent image and tag suggestion features, we are excited to announce today the release of a new link suggestion tool in the Online Editor.

You already know that embedding links extends your articles’ relevance online. Articles with links are viewed as being further developed and more resourceful than articles without links.

Now adding relevant links to your articles is easier than ever because we’ve found the links for you! After you have started to compose your article in the Online Editor, you can use the link suggestion button (find it directly below the Article Body box) to add links to related articles to your work.

For a demonstration on how to use the link suggestion tool, watch this video:

Happy publishing!

Imagine having a personal dictionary on Triond that learns new words as you use them. Our latest upgrade to the Online Editor’s spell check does just that; enables you to build a personal dictionary and remembers new words after they are added.

Those of you who write technical or otherwise lingo-heavy articles will find this function especially useful. It’s also helpful if you use words from other languages transliterated into English.

To check your spelling, just click on the same ABC button as before. Now, when the system finds a spelling error, the misspelled word will be highlighted in yellow. Correcting errors is a breeze – just click on the highlighted word and a suggestion box will drop down. If you find the word you were looking for in the suggestion box, click it and it will replace the misspelled word. If there is no suggestion that fits the context, but you are sure the word is correct and you want to keep using it, you can click “Add to dictionary”, and the word will never again be marked as a spelling error.

Here are some screenshots that demonstrate this functionality:

Let’s click the ABC button and see the highlighted words:

The words “speling” and “Google” were highlighted. Let’s fix them, we’ll pick “spelling” from the suggestion box, and we’ll add “Google” to the dictionary:

That’s it, easy and convenient.

Happy publishing!

Last December we included advice on tagging in the newsletter, but since it’s so important (and because we have a new feature!), we’d like to revisit the topic.  Relevant tags help your article get found in searches, they help our Editorial team know where to publish your work, and they help readers understand your article’s subject at a glance.

Now, it’s easier than ever to add relevant tags to your articles. We’ve added a new feature in the Online Editor that suggests tags for your article based off of your text.  Getting tag suggestions is easy; when you’ve finished writing your article, scroll down to the Tags field.  Like always, you can enter your own tags or, you can click the new ‘Get Suggestions’  button to witness tagging magic.  The new button automatically scans your content for relevant keywords and suggests tags for you. You can keep them or erase them, it’s up to you.

Here’s a short video that demonstrates how to use the new feature (for best viewing, expand it to full screen):

So go on now – get tagging!

Happy publishing!