This content type is used for news reports written by those administering the website. If the article is already published in an online journal you can use the “Press report” content type to link to it.
Creating a news item
- Add a title (single line input field).
- Input the news date (pop up calendar), i.e. the date the news happened
- Choose the news type (multiple selection). Select the category(ies) into which the news falls.
- Choose if the news item is a “top story” ( radio box). If the news is important and you want to highlight it and feature it on the home page select “Yes”. Otherwise use “No”. Only one news story at a time can be featured in this way at a time and a second story tagged with “Top story” will not appear anywhere. To locate “top stories” use CONTENT –> LIST CONTENT.
- Tag the story (auto complete field ). This will allow your readers to find the story using a keyword (your tags) search. Try not to duplicate tags, but make use of the auto complete function to see what tags other users have used.
- Create the news report (WYSIWYG editor).
- Add a news image (Image and document field). You can upload one image, which will be added to the news report. If you have more than one, you should create an image gallery for the event. NB. Save any images “for the web” first, to reduce their size.
- Select a picture gallery. If there is a picture gallery associated with the event, then select it, a link to the gallery will be included with the report. To create a picture gallery for this news item see this section. (NB. If your picture gallery doesn’t exist when you reach this point, you will need to save your content, create the picture gallery and come back to complete this stage.)
The readers' view of news items
Your readers will interact with the news content in several places
- In the news section on the home page: There is a list of up to three news items (title and date) on the home page. Any event tagged as “Top story” will appear above this list, along with part of the story. Users click on the event title to see more information
- Page link from “Community Council Activities” in the Directory menu: The news column of this page contains a list of all news in which have been tagged as being “Community Council activities”. The list contains the title, date and the first 200 words or so of the event report
- Page link from “News” in the Directory menu: This page provides access to all news items, grouped by category. Reader’s can search by category and keyword.
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