We added a lot of new features to Qumana, as you know, but you might be wondering how to get to these great new features?  Okay so here's a look at the Qumana toolbar and I'm going to run through the buttons that match the new features ...

Let's start from the left ...

 

The envelope is the post to e-mail feature.  The first time you click it you're going to be prompted for your SMTP server and e-mail address (your outgoing server), but the next time it will let you e-mail your post out.  Great idea for from within companies where RSS and blogs are a little beyond the curve.

 

Okay, the funnel.  What's with the funnel?  That, ladies and gentlemen, is the insert HTML feature.  Click that and you can insert raw HTML into your post.  The only limit is, right now, that it has to be in one line, not carridge returns.  Besides using it for the banner desginer (that's coming), I use it for inserting Flickr pictures into my posts.

 

The bill and pile of coins?  That's the one-click insert ad banner button.  Again, the first, time you click it you're going to need to insert your AdGenta client ID.  The next time you'll be prompted for the keyword and the banner will be inserted.  The banner is an image, so wrap text around it, what ever you want (psst, the image properties button looks like a landscape).

 

The little grey rectangle.  Okay that one is a bit tough to guess.  That is the link to the online banner designer.   This is where you can seriously tweak your banners.  The size, the colours, the text colours, etc.  Have fun.  Now how, pray tell, do get the banner from the banner designer into Qumana?  Drag and drop.  Just drag the banner from the preview pane into Q.  Or you can select the code in the preview area copy it and ... yeah you guessed it, the funnel.

 

The button with the Technorati icon well, yeah ... inserts you Technorati tags from what's in your tags box.

 

The Q?  It inserts an little banner promoting Qumana...

 

So that's it ...   any questions?

 

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