Adding a News Item to the TDWG Home Page (direct)
- Log in to the main TDWG web site using your credentials
- Browse to the TDWG home page
- As an Executive Committee member or Convener, you should see toolbars and pencil icons next to the groups of text. If you don't see these tools please contact webmaster(at)tdwg(dot)org.
- You should see small toolbars with a pencil icon on the left and a starred page icon on the right.
- Click on the starred page icon (the tool tip says "new record after") on any one of the small toolbars under the "Latest News" header in the right hand column.
- Add the "title", "subheader", "text" and "archive date" fields for your news item in the pop-up. If you do not see the "archive date" field please click the "show secondary options" check box at the bottom of the form.
- title: will serve as the title for your news item
- text: will be the body of your news item.
- subheader: will appear on the news listing (home page and group pages) as a teaser. If you choose not to enter a subheader then Typo3 will take the first 500 or so characters of the news body and make that the teaser.
- archive date: represents the date when the news item will vanish from the frontpage/subgroup page and will appear in the archives.
- Save the news item by clicking the diskette icon in the upper left hand corner of the page. The window will close and the homepage will refresh.
- Your newly created news item should appear at the top of the news list (the list is sorted by date - recent first).
