Hello and welcome to the launch of the Electric Scotland Article Service.

Over the years I've had many people send in articles for the site and thought it was time that I gave you a method of adding your own articles and hence this service.

Once you post an article in here it is also available to search engines and so you may well get additional readers than just those using this service.

As this is a public service I do need to explain that we will not allow hate or profanity in articles and so retain the right to delete any articles that in our opinion are not suitable for public viewing.  As always the vast majority of users here will be fine but you almost always find the odd one that takes undue advantage.

Now that I have that out of the way I should say that as our Electric Scotland site is all about the history of Scotland, Scots and people and places of Scots descent the categories reflect the work we do on the site.

I am more than happy to add new categories or sub categories and indeed I might even delete some if they are not being used.  And so this will be an evolving process as the service gets used.

Should you look to submit articles on a regular basis then please consider adding your name and details to the article. This way your fans can get to all your articles as you'll only be a click away :-)

There is no real limit to the size of article you can submit and of course you can add images to the text. In the case of images note that they need to be on the web as you'll be offered a window to enter the url of image. Please also make the image size suitable for the article.

When you submit an article you'll find you get a WYSIWYG editor.  I'd suggest you prepare your article in something like notepad or any text editor and then just copy it into our editor.  You can then use the tools to align it, add bold or italics, add colour and format the text.  We default to arial and 2pt on the site so you may wish to keep to this standard.

And so there you have it.  I hope you enjoy this new Electric Scotland Service and just to show how you can include a picture here is one of me sitting outside an hotel in Aberfeldy having a bar lunch :-)