INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENVIRO ONLINE NEWSLETTER:
1. ADD THE NEWSLETTER ISSUE HOMEPAGE. Navigate to the main newsletters archive page on the site. Add a page, make the title "Environment[State]-[Season] [Year] Report", make the menu title the headline of the first article, and the url should be "newsletter/[season][2-digit year]".
In the display tab set the style template to "Env newsletter style" and the page layout template to "Right Column Newsletter". Set the title not to display. This will be the same for all newsletter pages.
2. ADD THE BANNER ART. To add the banner art,
download this file, update it in Fireworks, and upload it to the newsletter folder on the site. Name make sure you name the url just [season]-[year]-banner.
Then look in metadata tab of any page of the example newsletter at alpha.environmentcalifornia.org. Copy the code for the extra head elements to the metadata tabs of each page in your newsletter and change the example-2007-banner to the url you used when you uploaded your banner art.
3. ADD A MAIN STORY. In the New Content tab on the left, add an article to the page. Set the style to "newsletter article." Set the title not to display. You can ignore the title, menu title and url of articles. Include the title of the article in the description. Set the headline to H1. Set the subheads to H3. Set the body text to paragraph. To include a photo attach it to the article. If there's a caption include it as the link title. Large photos should be 350 x 250px, narrow photos should be 350 x 150px.
4. ADD A SIDEBAR STORY. Add an article to the page. Set the style to one of the sidebar color styles. If you'd like to use a different color, use the custom template and go to the edit template view for instructions on how to set up custom colors. If the article has a headline in a dark bar you should make that the title and menu title and set the title to display. If it doesn't have a headline in a dark bar, set the title not to display. Set the headline to H3 and set the body text to paragraph. To add a photo, attach it to the article. It should be formatted to be 210 x 150 px. If it's a headshot it should be 120 x 105 px.
5. ADD ANOTHER PAGE. Always navigate to the first page of the newsletter edition you're working on and add a page layout. Make the title and the menu title the headline of the article on that page. Use the same style and page layout templates as the first page and set the title not to display. Add your main and sidebar articles.
6. ADD OTHER PAGES FOR ADDITIONAL NEWSLETTER STORIES.
7. ADD RECENT ACTION PAGE. To set up the Recent action banner, add an article with the sidebar blue style to the main column and make the title Recent action.
8. ON RECENT ACTION PAGE, ADD CREDITS IN SIDEBAR. Add a sidebar article, set the title not to display and put "credits" as the headline and include the credits for contributors and photos here.
9. LINK THE PAGES. Once the pages are set up, starting with the first page add an article to the end of each page with the default article style, with the title Next page and in the description add the name of the main article on the next page and link it to the page, not the article.
10. ADD EXTRA CONTENT, IF YOU HAVE IT. You can add additional content as sidebar articles with links to other content on the site or following the article in the first column by adding and article with as sidebar style and attaching a photo that's 175 x 150 px. You can also just add additional stories as extra pages.
