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On first glimpse you will notice that this interface is the same as the one in the Directory section. The search function will allow you to search against any news articles that you have listed. As for directory entries, if you do not have any news items created then you will not see any listed. To add a new ‘news article’, click on add new article. Adding a news article:
On clicking add new article, you will see a screen that requires data to be entered by you. The first entry required is a Publish Date. The publish date is when the article will become visible and therefore the ‘expires’ time specifies when it will drop off the site. This is good as you do not have to remember to go back and turn it off when it is no longer news worthy. As the item you are entering is a News item you can elect, by ticking the selection, to have it listed on your website and on the main MySouthWest website as well. This allows you to get 'free' publicity for any news article that you would like the general public to have access to. Obviously if the article is intended only for your own membership then it is unlikely you will want to list it on My South West as well. Select the publish date by using the pull down boxes and decide when the article should expire. The locality is also picked from another drop down box. You then have to select the category of news item from the choices available in the topic box. Enter a title which will draw attention to your organisation name and what the news event is about. This title is all that will be displayed on the website initially. To find out anything more about it visitors to the site will have to click on the title. Therefore it makes good sense for the title to be 'appealing'. Once you have typed in your title you will then need to fill in a more complete description, the normal contact details for your organisation and finally upload any image or logo that you would like to illustrate the article with (in the same way as explained in the Website Wizard Fact Sheet 1). Please note that your email address will be masked from public view. Should anyone wish to contact you with regard to the article then they will be able to fill out an online form and that will be sent to the email address specified by you. This is done to prevent malicious 'harvesting' of accessible email addresses by SPAM mailers.
Having completed the form, click on Add Article. Editing an existing news article: Having added a News article, when you return to the main listings page it will be listed. Should you require to edit the article for any reason you can access it by clicking on the headline.
This will take you straight back to the editor screen. Having made any changes that you require, click on the Edit article button to update the screen. PLEASE NOTE: when you go into the editor to update a news article, the expiry date will reset to NEVER. If you need to have an expiry date, please change it back to what you require before clicking on the Edit Article button.
Cancelling edits in a news article: Should you mistakenly find yourself in this editor screen but you do not actually want to update a news item, click on the green News tab at the top. This will take you back to the list of articles without saving any changes.
Deleting a news article or a picture associated with a news article: To delete a news item click on the delete link next to the headline. To delete any picture that you may have uploaded, but to leave the rest of the article as it is, click on the news item headline. This will take you back into the main screen.
By clicking on the “Remove” check box above the image name and then Edit Article, the picture will be removed. Viewing your article on MySouthWest: If you have selected that your news item will be visible to the whole of the MySouthWest site, to check what your news item will look like open up a new browser window and visit http://www.mysouthwest.com.au. At the foot of the home page is a list of News articles, ordered by published date. As yours is probably the latest one to be added then it will currently be at the top of the list. By clicking on the link a page will open allowing you to read the whole thing!
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