The site displays the "Sorry, this school hasn't posted any content yet. Check back soon" message when it thinks it has nothing to display.
It will do this if you:
* Have no active editions
* Have only future editions
* Have no active stories
A lot of people approve stuff and then don't see it show up. Try this first:
* Go to the Dashboard.
* Click on Edit Edition on the left
* Click on the pencil next to the edition in question
* Make sure that the date is not in the future.
* Make sure that active is yes.
* Click update
* Go look at your page again.
It SHOULD have updated itself.
Friday, August 28, 2009
My design changes aren't taking
In order for design changes to be reflected on your site, you must have one active edition and a story (even a token story).
Thursday, August 13, 2009
You want a shorter URL
You don't like the URL you have (http://my.hsj.org/Schools/Newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/newspaperid/xxxxx/Default.aspx) and you want a new one.
Do the following:
1. Log in under the teacher login.
2. Click on Newspaper Information in the Dashboard.
3. In the middle of the page, there is a field called Relative Short Name. Type one word in this field. It doesn't matter if it's capitalized or not. This word should represent your school.
4. Now your URL will be: http://my.hsj.org/stateabbreviation/cityname/thatword. Or something like http://my.hsj.org/va/reston/asne
5. Now you must go brand that URL everywhere. The library. The bulletin board. The flag of your printed paper. On letterhead. Everywhere. And build your media empire!
P.S. If Relative Short Name is for the URL, what is Relative Short URL for? I'm glad you asked. Sometimes advisers don't like the At-A-Glance page being their home page. It lists things in date order not in story priority order (that number at the bottom of the article-entry page). So what one would do in that instance is enter a URL in that field that they want the Relative Short Name to redirect to. Instead of the At-A-Glance page, they have it redirect to their front page (which is a different URL). PLEASE REMEMBER TO INSERT THE HTTP:// before your URL in this field.
IF YOU ARE HAPPY WITH THE AT-A-GLANCE PAGE BEING YOUR HOME PAGE ON THE SITE, DO NOT CHANGE THIS.
Do the following:
1. Log in under the teacher login.
2. Click on Newspaper Information in the Dashboard.
3. In the middle of the page, there is a field called Relative Short Name. Type one word in this field. It doesn't matter if it's capitalized or not. This word should represent your school.
4. Now your URL will be: http://my.hsj.org/stateabbreviation/cityname/thatword. Or something like http://my.hsj.org/va/reston/asne
5. Now you must go brand that URL everywhere. The library. The bulletin board. The flag of your printed paper. On letterhead. Everywhere. And build your media empire!
P.S. If Relative Short Name is for the URL, what is Relative Short URL for? I'm glad you asked. Sometimes advisers don't like the At-A-Glance page being their home page. It lists things in date order not in story priority order (that number at the bottom of the article-entry page). So what one would do in that instance is enter a URL in that field that they want the Relative Short Name to redirect to. Instead of the At-A-Glance page, they have it redirect to their front page (which is a different URL). PLEASE REMEMBER TO INSERT THE HTTP:// before your URL in this field.
IF YOU ARE HAPPY WITH THE AT-A-GLANCE PAGE BEING YOUR HOME PAGE ON THE SITE, DO NOT CHANGE THIS.
Many many changes in store for 2009-10
There have been many changes made to the site since June. We will be releasing a new version of the user guide going forward, but a short overview is:
- Editions
- Backdated has now been eliminated. Editions are now either active or inactive. The date MUST BE BEFORE TODAY OR TODAY in order for an active edition to appear.
- An edition can now have more than one PDF associated with it. For the love of all that is good, please keep these under 5 Mb -- preferably 1 Mb. No one has that much time.
- Articles
- You cannot leave the title field blank now. Doing so used to make articles unclickable on the admin screen.
- Appearance
- Lots of changes here. We have separated the appearance and newspaper information screens.
- We have introduced what is known as an AJAX application for the appearance page. This allows you to see the changes in real time. It's really cool.
- We now have five page designs -- up from two before. They are named after the Great Lakes -- HOMES -- Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior. They all look slightly different.
- We have introduced colors to various parts of the screen.
- We have introduced different motifs for you to use.
- We will be adding additional features going forward in this area.
- Public pages
- The weather now appears on the front page of your site. This is based on your ZIP code. You can see what we have for you on the School Information page; let us know if it's wrong. Also, you can turn off the weather (and various other features) on that page.
- Pages now look really different. In addition to the changes outlined above, you have:
- changes to the list view (list or card view)
- changes to the icon sizes (they should now be no deeper than 22 pixels deep)
- Full Story icons appear different (and change color when you hover over them)
- headlines themselves are ALL CAPS now.
- We now allow feeds to be read on the site. If you have RSS feeds (say from this blog or another one outside our site -- remember, we have regulated blogs, too, and they work just like stories -- you can have them available on your site by clicking on Add [RSS feeds that will be prominent on your site] from the dashboard.
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