ADDING NEWS ARTICLES OR CAREER LISTINGS

  1. Access either the article listings page or the Career listings page from within Contribute
  2. Click "Edit".
  3. If you are adding an article to the news page, right click on the top article in the list and select "insert row above". If you are editing the Careers page you will not need to do this.
  4. Add your date/headline or new career title into the proper location.
  5. Highlight the text that you want to link to your new article or career page. In the Contribute toolbar click the "link" button and select "create new page".
  6. Select the either the "news" or "career" template. Enter the title for your new page in the space provided. Click "OK".
  7. Fill out the template with your article or career content, then click "publish".
  8. In the dialog box that comes up, make sure the file has the name you want (it can not have any spaces) then click "Choose Folder" and click on either the news or career folder. Click the "select" button. The box will close, then click "publish".
  9. Now you have published your new page, but the article listings or career listings page still needs to be published. In the left hand sidebar in Contribute, select the page you edited earlier. it will begin: "draft...". Then click "publish" and everything will be live.

 

UPDATING THE NEWS SCROLLER

  1. Access this instruction page (http://www.selectrontechnologies.com/newsedit.html) from within Contribute.
  2. Click on this link: news.txt
  3. A page with a message and a document icon will open in Contribute. Click "Edit". Your computer should open the .txt file automatically in outside of Contribute.
  4. The file should look like this:
    ###news/04-26-04.html
King County, WA to Implement IVR
###news/04-19-04.html
Contract Announcement: City of Stockton, CA
###news/04-12-04.html
Chandler, AZ goes live with Voice and WebUtility
###news/03-26-04.html
Contract Announcement: Hillsborough County, FL
###news/03-01-04.html
Contract Announcement: City of Orlando, FL
  5. To add your latest news article, just replace the oldest date in the .txt file with the new date that you gave the news article when you named it, and then type or paste the new headline over the old one directly below the date.
  6. If you want, you can also reorder the articles, and there can be as many articles as you like, as long as they are listed in the format above.
  7. When you are done, save the file, then go back into Contribute and click "Publish".
  8. Then be sure to go online in a regular browser to the scrolling news page and test your new news link.

 
 



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