Want a poll on a subject you have not seen yet? Don't the polls already published? Create your own and submit it for publication.

Here's how:

1.) Your must be a registered user of YourArlington. Sign up here or hit the Register button on the navigation bar at the top left of the site.

2.) Once you are an approved user, log in.

3.) Hit the Polls button on the navigation bar at the top right of the site or go here >> 

4.) Above the listing of current polls, click on Submit new poll or go here >> 

5.) Fill out the available fields for your poll:

     a.) Title

     b.) Poll type: Do you want just one possible response to a number of options, or do you want to allow multiple responses?

     c.) Description: Briefly describe your poll

     d.) Category: If the options available don't fit your topic, choose the one closest. You may also suggest a new category, and the publisher will add it (email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

     e.) Poll closing: Click on the calendar and choose a date when your poll will end.

     f.) Options: Add your voting choices, one by one. For more, click Add Another Option.

     g.) When you have things the way you want, hit Submit Poll

6.) The publisher will be notified that you have submitted a poll. Then he will decide whether to publish it and let you know his decision.

You don't want to publish only words -- you want to illustrate what you're writing about with images. They may be photographs, cartoons, logos -- anything you want to display, usually as .jpg or .gif files, but there are other formats. Here is a guide to working with images on YourArlington.com. Print them out.

To be able to post images to YourArlington, you must be authorized to do so. To get authorization, the publisher must give it to you. If you want that authorization, ask.

If you get authorization, you'll get the Web address from which you may work with images. You'll need that. It the publisher forgets to tell you what it is, march over to his house and demand it. Or try e-mail.

Here are the steps you need to follow:

-- Save the digital image to your desktop (or wherever you want).

-- Resize it to 400 pixels wide, maximum, or smaller. (You may use images that are wide as 600 pixels, but they must be on their own page and not the site's front page.) Logos are usually no wider than 90 to 100 pixels.

-- Log in with your usual username and password.

-- Using the Web address the publisher provided, go YourArlington's adminstrative page (if he didn't, ask) and click on Media Manager.

-- Go to the folder, at left, and look for a directory called /stories. The majority of YourArlington images are saved here under a series of other directories. Look for the logical place to save your image and then remember where you put it (the publisher may ask). If you do not see a directory or subdirectory that makes sense for your image, you may create one, but it's wise to ask the publisher about this first.

-- Go to Choose file at the bottom the directory, find your image, and upload it to the folder.

-- In most cases, you will be then uploading an image to an existing story. If you have not created a story yet, see the instructions in this FAQ about doing that.

-- To place your image in an existing page, open up that file. Place your cursor where you want the image to be and hit the Image button, just below the story-editing window.

-- That launches a nifty window that shows where all of the images are on the site. Find the photo you uploaded in /stories/ (in the directory you chose).

-- Click on the file name below the image, and that name will appear in image URL, below. Click on align (usually left). Put in a brief image description. If the image needs a caption, write one in the space provided. Go to the top of the window and hit insert.

-- That places the image in your story.

-- To finish the job, you need to click your image with your cursor and then hit the little green box in the last row of editing options above where you're editing. That allows you to place spacing around the image as well as borders (even colorful ones).

-- To move the story type away from the image, choose 4 on the side of the image that touches type. Larger numbers give you more white space.

-- Once you're satisified, hit Update at the bottom of this editing window.

Take a look at the published image and make sure that it looks the way you want. If it doesn't, return to the screens described above and adjust.

Let the publisher know your image is uploaded via This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .