Website News and Media Guidelines

News Items appear on the Home page in one line summary format. When you click on this line, the full news item is displayed. In order to create a news item, you have to log in to the back end (though you can edit them from the front end). News items can be a Noticesheet, Newsletter, News Bulletin or Sermon Download:

1. To add a Noticesheet.
   1. First make sure the Noticesheet is saved somewhere on the PC on which you're working.
   2. Select Content>Article Manager>Add New Article
   3. Under Title, write the date of the Noticesheet, eg '13 November 2011'.
   4. In the Category box select '-Noticesheets'
   5. In the white area under 'Article text' type 'Noticesheets'. Highlight this and click the Link icon above (shows as a link of a chain with a green plus sign).
   6. A pop up box appears. Click 'Browse Server'and then the 'Noticesheets' directory.
   7. Click 'Browse' and select, in our example, the 13 November 2011 noticesheet from your PC. Once it appears, click it and it will generate the link in the white box. Click OK.
   8. Back in the 'Article Manager: Add New Article' screen, in the 'Publishing Options' screen, click 'Select User' and enter your name.
   9. nter your name enter a butto cititle of the News Item, then under Category select News from the drop down. The other items in the Edit article box probably won't need to be changed.
2. Write the text of the item in the Article text box.
3. Complete the drop downs on the right, headed Publishing Options: you will usually only need to complete the Finishing Publishing box. The Article Options and Metadata Options will not usually need to be completed or altered.