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LiveUpdater
main administration Menu.
Add
a new news article.
This page is for entering a new news item. The page is displayed as
follows:
Choose
a category for this story.
The administrator can add additional categories here. This allows similar
articles to be grouped under a specific category for easier searching
by the viewer.
e.g.
Latest News
Local News
International news
Special deals
(note in the lite version this feature is not available. Each
new category must be requested as an upgrade).
Story
Title.
Headline for the news item. This is your main drawcard for people to
read your news item. Needs to be very brief. Shorter is better.
Teaser.
Addional detail information related to the news item. Possibly a teaser
to encourage the reader to read the entire article. Can be longer than
story title but should only one or two sentences.
You may wish to use the first sentence from the story?
Type
or paste the story here.
This is where your actual news item goes. You can either type it directly
in here or produce offline and paste into here. We recommend spell checking
before adding.
Helpful shortcuts: COPY = CTRL + C
PASTE= CTRL + V
CUT = CTRL + X
Special formatting help.
This section provides you with tips on how to make your item more presentable
by adding features to text. <B>Bold, </B> italics
etc add to your item by drawing attention to formatted text. Use it
to highlight key points, phrases or features. Go there now
GO LIVE NOW?
This will place your news item live on the web for everyone to see as
soon as you click the SAVE button.
By un-checking this box the news item will be available to view in LiveUpdater
Administration area but will not appear on the web. This is useful for
news items that may have to be proof read before putting online or to
save a story which may re-appear at a later date.
SHOW IMAGE
If you want to add an image to your news item you will need to type
the image filename in here. If you know the filename type it. If not
select one from the image library. It must end in .jpg or .gif and have
No spaces. View
image library.
This link takes you to a list of all the available images. Click on
VIEW to view image. Copy the image filename and paste the text
name into the SHOW IMAGE field of the news item.
If you have authorisation you can add new images of your own to this
section.
Follow the instructions on the ADD IMAGE page.
Story importance.
Choose a number between 1-9 to rate your news item. The lower number
you specify, the higher up the list your news item will appear. Use
the lower numbers for your newer news items or items of importance.
Display
this story from:
You can specify a date at which your news item will appear. This gives
you the opportunity to write items in advance & put them online
at a set date in the future or embargo items.
Display this story until:
You can specify how long an article stays online by setting a retirement
date. The items will then go offline on the specified date but will
remain in LiveUpdater for future reference. NOTE: The default time for articles staying Live is until 2999.
www
link:
If you know of a link to another website related to your news item you
can put it here.It already has http:// on it so just add www.thesitename.com
Author:
This relates to your login details and shows who updated or added the
article.
Display until: NEW
This will highlight the item as NEW. You can set how long you want each
item to remain shown as new. If you put new items weekly you might choose
to display as new for six days by putting in the date the NEW graphic
should be removed - in the form DD/MM/YYYY - 12/01/2001. After the set
period the item will no longer be highlighted as new but will remain
displayed online.
Display until: UPDATED
If you make changes to an item you can advise your viewers by marking
the item as UPDATED. This will draw attention to the fact you have updated
the article. Set the number of days to be displayed as updated. After
the set period the item will no longer be highlighted as updated but
will remain displayed.
Update
an existing news article.
Search
for a story by Keyword:
You can find an article by just typing a word that is in the article.
A list of items that have that word anywhere in the heading or story
will be displayed.
You can then go straight to the relevant item for editing by clicking
on the link which is in the form of the item heading.
Maintain
categories and sites (Admin only)
Administrator can change title or add a new category Upload
an image, document or thumbnail.
See details on the page the klink takes you to of what is allowed and
how to upload.
View the image library.
View all the images available in the image gallery.
View
category live.
You can view what the items look like online. Useful for seeing how
any formatting you have applied looks online & how the image appears
(if included).
Add
a new user (Admin only)
Administrator can add a new user for the system.
You must check what areas the user is able to update and add all details
Update
an existing user (Admin only) Administrator can update a users details.
