From the User Guide: How to create or edit and edition

Posting content

Posting content to the site is done, briefly, by opening both your Web browser and your page layout or content-editing program at the same time and then copying and pasting text from one to the other.

We do not recommend writing articles directly on our Web page. You will lose everything you wrote if anything goes wrong.

Creating a new edition

Click on Add Edition. You are presented with a form with several fields.

• Newspaper: You can't change the site name.
• Edition Name (Required): You can use a variety of approaches, such as: 2010-11 School Year, Valentine’s Day; Volume XXI; Number 8 or December 2010. Once you choose a style, stick with it to maintain consistency. This name will

TIP: Editions appear when the date is today’s date OR before today’s date. Post-dated editions will not appear until that date. If you only have deleted OR post-dated editions, the system will say you haven’t posted anything.

be displayed on all pages of the site where that edition displays.

• Edition Date (Required): Next, enter the edition date. You can use the little calendar if you like, which will put the date in the form that the system requires. This date will be displayed in the site information box. If the date is in the future, the system will not display the edition or its contents.
• PDF File (Optional): This asks you to upload PDFs. If you already have a print edition and know how to create a PDF, you can post them here. You can upload multiple PDFs per edition if you wish. We do not support creation of PDFs and cannot help you in this area. The large Add and Delete buttons refer to this PDF.
• Is Deleted: If this is checked then this edition will not appear publically, but you will be able to see it in your admin area.

Click on Update.

TIP: The system is based on an edition/ article model. When a new edition is created, it sends the old one to the archives. TIP: If you want to, you could use the same edition all year and have material appear, blog-like from most recent to least. For example, the 2010-11 Edition.

Editing an edition

Click on Edit Edition.

You are presented with a menu screen showing all the available editions. You see:

o Edition name

o Number of articles in the edition. (This value can be clicked to take you to the article Edit Article page.)

o Edition Date

o Name of PDF file associated with edition (if any)

o Date edition was created

Here is what the icons to their left mean:

o The x will delete an edition.

o The pencil takes you to the Edit Edition screen – which is identical to the Create Edition screen. You may change the values here if you wish.