Post a News Item - Web Team

Posting news using the CMS is done using a blogging tool. The information here will show you how to post a news item.

To learn more about strategies for posting news, see News and Events Marketing Strategies and Writing an Effective News Post.

You can also create a news post with a YouTube video embedded. To learn more, see Embed a YouTube Video into a Page or News Post.

Also see a visual demonstration of posting a news item.

If you are not a web maintainer and wish to post a news item, please see How to Suggest a News Item.

To post news, first go to your Workarea.
On the left side of the Workarea, click Content.
Also on the left side of your Workarea, find your unit website and find your News folder. Beneath your News folder, you will see what appears to be a subfolder, indicated with a Blog icon and labeled with your unit's name, followed by "News." See "Web Team News" below:
On the right side of your Workarea, mouse over New on the toolbar, and on the pull-down menu, select HTML Post.
Give the post a title. This is what will appear as the headline for the news item.
Enter the content of the post, as you would for any content item.
Under the Summary tab, enter a short description of the post. Check the appropriate box under Subjects. If the categories provided do not suit your typical news posts, please contact the Web Team to have different categories added.
When finished, submit the post for publishing, as you would any other content item.

Making the Upcoming News Box Display on Your Page

The Upcoming News box will automatically display on your unit’s home page. The titles of the five most recently published news items are set to display automatically in the box.

If you need to make the Upcoming News box appear on your home page or an additional page, follow this process:

In the Workarea, navigate to the main content block for the page on which you want the News and Events block to appear.
Open up the content block for editing.
Go to the Metadata tab, and go to the News Block.
Click Change. The Library screen will appear.
On the left side of the screen, navigate to your unit's News folder.
On the right side of the screen, double click on the News content item. (This is not a news item; it is a descriptive, introductory content block for your news page.)
The News item will appear at the bottom of the screen, with a checked box to the left of it. Click on Add Selections (the Save icon, ). The News block has been added to the metadata.
Submit the content for publishing, as you would any other content item.

Removing the Upcoming News from Your Page

The process of removing the Upcoming News box from a page is similar to that of adding it:

Navigate to the main content block for the page where you want remove the Upcoming News.
Open up the content block for editing.
Go to the Metadata tab, and go to the News Block.
Click on Clear. The Upcoming News box has been removed from the metadata.
Submit the content for publishing, as you would any other content item.