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2. To view the news site’s content, click on the Site dropdown at the upper left corner of your Dashboard. Select your site, e.g. ACAD-COMMGRAD-news.miami.edu or ACAD-ADMIS-news.miami.edu
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3. Once you are viewing the site content for news.miami.edu, click on the _assets folder. Navigate to the images/images-stories folder. Continue navigating until you reach the folder for the appropriate year/month.
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4. Look for a red plus sign in the topmost header area of the page and click on Add Content. Inside the Common Add Images and PDFs folder, select Image from the dropdown menu.
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5. Drag and drop the first image into the window or choose it from your computer. The File Name will automatically populate with the file name previously given to the image in Photoshop. Fill in the Alternative Text (img ALT tag).
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The File Name should include the image dimensions at the end—e.g., student-center-480x320. This will help when you are inserting the image into the story. The purpose of Alternative Text is to provide a description of the contents of an image file. One of the most common uses of Alternative Text is to provide text for visitors who can't see images in their browsers. |
6. Click Save & Preview Draft. After the preview, click Submit, then click Start Workflow Submit again. Repeat this process for the other two versions of the photo.
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8. Look for the red plus sign in the topmost header, and click on Add Content. Inside the Site Assets Add Stories folder, select News Item from the dropdown menu.
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9. Begin filling out the fields for the News Item.
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Call to Action: The checkbox to enable the call to action feature is checked by default. If you do not wish to have this feature active, remember to uncheck the box.
Button Collection: For the Call to Action button collection to work, you need to click the “Choose Block” field and navigate to the Call to Action Block folder which is located here: ACAD-COMM-news.miami.edu / _cascade / site-assets / call-to-action /. This folder houses all the Call to Action Blocks from all areas and schools.
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Bridge Story: The bridge story feature is an option that allows you to create bridging lead-in content from another news story. Choose a Page from one of our existing news subsites —e.g., Alumni, Architecture and Nursing.
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Image: Select the three images you cropped in Photoshop, and uploaded to the images/images-– 940x529, 790x527, and 365x365stories folder -– Main Image 16:9 (940 x 529), Medium Image 3:2 (790 x 527), and Small Image 1:1 (365 x 365).
Caption: Enter the caption for your image(s) in this area.
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Contains Media: If your story will include a YouTube or Vimeo video, a slideshow from PhotoShelter (or equivalent), or an audio file, check the appropriate box.
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Schools and Colleges: Does your story mention any schools and colleges?Check all that apply.
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Schools and colleges with news subsites, must always pick their school from this section, e.g. The Graduate School must select The Graduate School in order to select sub-topics,such as Grad Students and Grad Events. |
Administrative Areas Section
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Redirect: Do you want to enable a redirect-i.e., when your story loads, it immediately sends you to a story on another site? If so, check the Enable Redirect box and choose the link for the page. This feature allows you to push the user to the other site and eliminate the need to copy the whole story into the main site.
Top Content & Bottom Content: The body of the story can be separated into two sections – Top Content, and Bottom Content. Both areas do not have to be used for the story to be published. Add the main body copy for your story in these sections and use the WYSISYG editor to format your story as needed.
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On small viewports (if you inserted a slideshow or call to action buttons), whatever was inserted into the Top Content will display above the slideshow and/or call to action buttons, and whatever was inserted into the Bottom Content will display below. |
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10. Click Save & Preview Draft. After previewing the draft, click Submit , then click Start Workflowto save the page to CMS.
11. Enter any comments you may have for the reviewer. Click on Start Workflow. A workflow is a series of ordered steps that the content must go through to be quality-checked, and either approved, modified, or disapproved by the appropriate user.
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12. Choose one of the three Available Actions. If you have no changes and would like to submit for review/publish, choose Yes, Submit for Publish to Production.
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The story has been successfully saved to the CMS. You must now Publish your story.
12. Select one or more of the outputs to Publish to the destinations selected.
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