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How to Add A News Item

All news items must be stored in the Archive folder!

  1. Navigate to the home page
  2. Click on the Contents tab.
  3. Click on the Archive folder
  4. Click on the numeric year named folder (ex. 2009)
  5. Click on the month named folder (ex. June)
  6. Click on Add New... and select News Item from the list
  7. Add the metadata:
    • Shortname - hyphenated 2 word short description
    • Title - Title of the news item. Capitalize like a book title.
    • Description - enter a description of the news item. For example, "Find information about what happened..." Or write a teaser, for example, "There was a buzz in the meeting room last Friday, find out why!"
    • Body Text - Write the actual news
    • Image - add an image, if desired,  that will be displayed in the news item and be included in the RSS feed of the news
      1. Click on Browse
      2. Navigate to the location of your image, or picture, on your computer or camera and  select it. An image on a news item is NOT uploaded to the Web site first.
      3. Click on Open
  8. In the image caption field enter a caption to go underneath the picture
  9. Click on the Save button.
  10. Click on State:Private select Publish from the list

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Webmaster last modified Mar 26, 2010 12:22 PM