How to Enhance Your Trip Report
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How to Enhance Your Trip Report
| By Hombre on Friday, December 09, 2011 - 06:32 am: Edit |
How to Enhance Your Trip Report
For basic instructions on how to submit a trip report, you may check out one of the following two links:
How do I create a Trip Report with separate chapters?
How do I create a TripReport with photos?
Essentially, the easiest way to create a nice looking trip report is to email it to us and we'll do the formatting for you, but if you'd rather do it yourself, refer to the previous links and some additional advanced tips below.
USE HEADERS
We suggest creating separate chapters only when the individual chapters are very long (lots of text and/or photos), otherwise it's easier for your readers to view your report in a single topic without having to click back and forth between chapters. When you have clearly defined sections, try creating headers with additional formatting (bold, larger text, different color, etc..., see tip below) This post uses headers to identify the separate tips, like "USE HEADERS".
FORMAT SOME TEXT
Add some emphasis to your writing by using bold, italic, and/or underline. If you are presenting information that makes sense in a list or table, such as a list of what to bring or a table of price comparisons, use it in your report. See a list example at the end of this post, too.
Hombre said:
quote:Quoting is a nice way of refering to something someone else said or wrote. You can learn how to quote, make lists and table, and format your text by visiting the section: Discus Documentation: Formatting
LINK TO DISCUSSION TOPICS
Club Hombre has a well organized hierarchy of topics for most destinations. Does your report mention a venue, hotel, type of transportation, or other topic covered in it's own thread? Try linking to it in your report to give your reader the opportunity to easily find additional information on your subjects from different perspectives.
If the topic doesn't already exist, try creating it yourself. You'll need to do this before publishing your report so that the topic will be there to link to, but if you do it after, just let us know and we'll add the link for you.
This is a more advanced tip, unless you're already comfortable with formatting in our Trip Report section, we recommend you email us or submit a support ticket for assistance with linking to other topics.
LINK TO VENUES AND OUR UPCOMING ACCOMODATIONS
At the end of November 2011 we introduced a new feature called Venues (still in beta/testing and being populated with data at the time of this writing). We have a similarly functioning feature called Accomodations under development. Together (or even taken separately), these tools will be one of the best resources for hobbyist trip planning you'll be able to find on the web. Venues provides an easy-to-read list of active and inactive sex venues with essential details such as cost and location, as well as related trip reports, photos, and even members that are familiar with the venue. Accomodations will be directly linked with Venues, and provide information on hobbyist-recommended places to stay as well as guest friendly details, approximate cost, contact information and how to get there, all in an easy-to-find and easy-to-read place. Linking to Venues and Accomodations will also be a more advanced tip, so again we recommend an email or support ticket for assistance.
SUMMARY
There you have it, four tips to enhance the quality of your trip reports:
- Use Headers
- Format Some Text
- Link To Discussion Topics
- Link To Venues And Our Upcoming Accomodations
If you notice things you've liked in past trip reports that I've missed, please let me know and I'll update this post.
Hombre