The underlying content-management system, Plone, calls these URL parts -- which are file or folder names in traditional file systems -- "short names". To simplify content creation, the system usually creates these short names for you by replacing all the spaces with dashes and converting to all lower case.

You may fix the short name for an individual item by going to the folder containing it, choosing the "contents" view from the green content bar, checking the box beside the item and pressing the "rename" button.

If you find yourself doing this frequently, visit your "preferences" page (a link on the personal bar, next to "log out"), choose "Personal Preferences" and check the box for "Allow editing of Short Names" in the form. Then, a short name field will appear with every item creation form.

Yes, this is possible. You just create an external link with the format:

mailto:msmosaic@dcn.org

rather than the format that would link to a web page (e.g., http://www.dcn.org/).

There's a great video tutorial on this subject at:

http://learnplone.onenw.org/documentation/video/creating-email-links

It's about two minutes of viewing.

Log in and navigate to the folder currently containing the ten folders. Choose the "contents" view from the green content action bar. Then, check the boxes beside the folders you wish to move; push the "cut" button. Then, navigate to the target folder. Click on the "actions" pull-down menu on the content bar and choose "paste". (As an alternative to the last part, you may switch to the "contents" view of the target folder and press the "paste" button.)

Note that the objects that you are moving will not move until you execute the paste action. The "cut" really just selects objects for potential moving.

Ask the DCN web team to enable it.

When this is set up, the "Upcoming Events" portlet and "Events" tab will be filled by your DCN event calendar. You should then avoid use of the "event" content type, as it will no longer be useful.

If your goal is to be able to hide content from others, you may do so by setting the state of folders or other content items to "private."

However, if what you want to do is to make particular content available to some logged in users, but not others, it's a different issue. We normally set up site owners with a security profile that doesn't allow this. This isn't so much to restrict you as to hide some complexity. Ask the web team to elevate your security profile and you'll gain a "Sharing" tab that will allow you to set permissions.

This may not be quite as useful as you hope, as site owners have no way to add users. But, the web team may add a limited number of login ids that you may use for this purpose.

First, upload the file by adding a "file" content item to a desired folder in your site.

Then, edit the page to which you wish to attach the file. Look at the bottom of the editing form for the Related Item(s) control. Use the Browse... button and find the file you just uploaded. Click on Insert to attach it to the page.

When a page from your site is printed, the browser should employ a special print stylesheet to present the page. The print presentation emphasizes the page content, and suppresses most graphics and sidebar clutter.

This is deliberate, and we think it serves well the purposes of folks who want an optimally useful hard copy of the page's content. It occasionally dismays the proud site maintainer, though, who wants to print a page with all the decoration.

If you need to print a copy of the web page as it looks on a browser, use your computer's copy window feature (Alt-PrtScn on a Windows PC) to copy an image of the current window; then past that into a graphics program.

Can do. This is a three-step process:

1. Register your group's domain name with a domain name registration service. Make sure that the registrar you choose provides DNS services. Note that when you register, most registrars will try to sell you a great many services that you don't need. All you'll need for this purpose is name registration and DNS services.
2. Use your registrar's account management interface to set up DNS records. In particular, if your domain name is mygroup.org, you should set up A records pointing mygroup.org and www.mygroup.org to 168.150.253.7 (the DCN groups web server).
3. Let the DCN webteam know that you need to have virtual hosting set up for your site.

Please note that these steps may take a few days to complete.

This is most likely because your site has been set up to use the DCN community event calendar for its event listings. When your site is set up like this, only events added via your organization's event calendar (at events.dcn.org) will show up in event lists.

Another possibility if you're not using the DCN calendar: your event may have "private" publication status. If so, change it to "visible" or "published".

Major differences are:

• Availability of folders to organize larger sites;
• A What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor for page texts. Forget about StructuredText (unless you liked it; it’s still available);
• Automatic site indexing and search;
• Improved aesthetics and accessibility;
• Integration with DCN’s Community Calendar.

There are many other new features.

Yes, but there’s no automated conversion of your old content. If you already have a DCN SimpleSite 1, just ask the web team, and we’ll create a SimpleSite 2.0 for you. You’ll need to copy the content from the old to the new site yourself. When the new site is ready to go, let us know and we’ll make the old address point to the new site.

Login and navigate to the page. Look for the “State” drop-down menu in the green-shaded actions. Click on the drop-down and select “Private.” When you want to make the page visible again, choose the “Public” state.

A blog, or web log, features a homepage with a list of news items, ordered from most-recent to oldest.

To make your site operate as a blog, login choose the "Edit" tab in the green-shaded actions. Click on the [news/events] link to display news options. Check the Show News on Homepage box and uncheck the Show News Portlet box.

Pick a number of news items to display on the home page via the Homepage News Item Limit option.

Navigate to the folder containing the items you wish to re-order (this may be the site home). Select the “Contents” tab from the green shaded actions.

Position your cursor pointer over the listing for the item you wish to move. The pointer should change to your computer's "move" icon. Now, hold down your mouse button and drag the item to the desired position. Release the mouse button.

If your browser doesn't support this function, look for the up and down position buttons on the right of each item. Use these to move your item around. Yes, we know it can be tedious if the list is long.

Probably because it has been marked for exclusion from the site list. When we first create SimpleSites, we mark them "Exclude From Site List" so that you may get them into shape before they're public.

To have your site listed, log in and go to your home page. Choose the edit tab, then go to the "admin" sub-form. Uncheck the "Exclude From Site List" box and save.

Add a folder to your site to contain the photos. After creating the folder, navigate to it and click on the "display" drop-down menu. Choose the "thumbnail" view. The, upload your photos to the folder.

Please note, your SimpleSite isn't really meant to contain truly large photo collections. Please investigate one of the many excellent free and low-cost photo sharing services for this purpose. Then, create links from your site to your photo collection.