To provide website area news that can be updated from the web:
- Change the $area_id of this page to that of your area.
- Follow the New Page Instructions for news.php.
Don't forget to remove these instructions from
news.php!
How to Post News
Here are step by step instructions for posting news to an EKU website.
- Sign in with the "firstname.lastname" and password of your EKU email account.
- To display the news item you are posting on the homepage of your website, check the box after "Display on main page:" and indicate the order in which you want the homepage news items to display. You can display up to five news items.
- Title Line (2) is optional. If you do use it, combine title lines (1) and (2) in the Title text field.
- Select a Publish Date. The default is the current date ("today").
- Only enter a direct link if you won't be entering content through the web news form. Entering a direct link will cause clicking the the news item title to go directly to the link you provide.
- The teaser can be the first sentence or two of the news item. It is similar to the abstract of an article in an academic journal. It's purpose is to inform the reader enough so that s/he knows whether to spend time reading the entire news item.
- Notice that you can but do not have to provide a contact name, email, and phone, and that these can be DIFFERENT than that of the person posting the news. This can be very convenient!
- Don't forget that you must click on "Submit" to finish posting the news item.
- Always check your news item after you log out. If your news item is on the homepage is check there; otherwise, check it on your news page. Make sure you said what you meant to say and that any direct links to or in your news item are correct. This way you can fix errors before someone else catches them!
