News

Creating a News Posting

Step 1: Navigating to the Location of the News Posting

1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Navigate to your sub-site on the Middlebury College web site
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Log On
4. Enter your username and password and click Logon
5. Navigate within your subsite to the specific news catagory and news year channel in which you want to create this news posting. If you need to set up a news catagory or news year channel, contact Web Services.

Step 2: Uploading Photos for a News Posting [If Necessary]

1. Click Switch to Edit Site in the Edit Console
2. Click Resource Manager in the Edit Console
3. Click the name of your sub-site in the list of sites which appears
4. Click the Add New... button in the Resource Manager window
5. Click the Browse... button in the Add Resource window
6. Navigate to the location of the photo on the hard drive and click on the file
7. Click Open
8. Enter a short description of the photo in the Description text box
9. Click OK
10. Close the Resource Manager window

Step 3: Adding the News Posting

1. If you are viewing a specially formatted list of News Postings, click Create New Page in the Edit Console and go to step 6.
2. Click Create New Page (Choose Template) in the Edit Console
3. Expand 0506 Templates
4. Click News 
5. Click the Select icon to the right of News
6. If this news item should appear on the main page of your sub-site, click the Sub-Site Home Page News Item checkbox
7. If this news item is a featured item, which have photos that are 350px wide instead of the normal 120px wide, click the Featured Item (Large Photo) check box
8. Enter a sub-title of the news item in the Sub-title text area. This text will be displayed in the list of news items using the List News Items rendering script.
9. Enter a short description of the news item in the Short Description text area. This text will be displayed in the news items lists on the main sub-site page, if this is a Sub-Site Home Page News Item, and on page with the Show News Items rendering script applied 
10. If there is a photo for this News posting
1. Click the Insert Image link directly above the Caption text area
2. Click Insert Shared Image
3. Click the name of your sub-site in the list of sites which appears
4. Locate the photo in the list of resources
5. Click the Select icon to the right og the photo
6. If the Alternate Text field is blank, enter a short description of the photo in the Alternate Text box
7. Click Insert
8. You may also enter a caption for the photo in the Caption text area
11. To remove a photo from this News posting, click the Remove Image link next to the Insert Image link
12. The news posting will not appear in the list of news postings until the date in the Start Date text box. This is automatically set to the time you create this posting, meaning that the news item will be shown as soon as the posting is Saved and Approved. To change this date, click the Set Date/Time button below the Start Date text box and choose a new date and time from the popup calendar window.
13. The news posting will not appear in the list of news postings on the main page of your sub-site past the date in the End Date text box. This value has no affect on the lists of news items in the category-specific news channels, assuming they have the List News Items rendering script applied. To change this date, click the Set Date/Time button below the End Date text box and choose a new date and time from the popup calendar window.
14. If this news posting should redirect the user to a different web page, enter the URL of that page in the URL text box. When the user clicks this news item in a news items list, they will be moved to that URL.
15. You may enter the user name of a person who should be listed as a Contact for this news item in the Contact text area. A person's user name is the first part of their email address, before the @. So the user name of jsmith@middlebury.edu is jsmith. 
16. You may enter a long version of the news story in the Edit Window. This text will not be shown in the list of news items, but if the user click on this story in the list, they will be shown this more detailed version of the news item.
17. Click Save New Page in the Edit Console
18. Enter a name for the posting in the Name text box
19. Enter a display name for the posting in the Display Name text box. Please note that Display Name will be used as the TITLE of a news posting in ALL rendered lists, including SHOW, LIST and the HOMEPAGE. 
20. Click OK 
21. Click Approve in the Edit Console

Step 4: Finishing

1. Click Log Off in the Edit Console
2. Close Internet Explorer