Chapter III - CREATING & EDITING YOUR ARTICLES

You are now on your way to creating your own entries for your website. Instead of relying on one solitary person to handle all your web editing needs, you can now assign different people to enter articles to different sections of your website. There is no programming knowledge required to enter these articles. Anyone can do it. Passwords and authorization levels allow you to customize the access of different people to different sections of your website.

Here are the topics we cover in this chapter. Please take the time to review them. And please make it a point to come back to them for reference as frequently as you need to.

Steps to getting started
Setting up parish web editors
Working with articles
Working with secondary languages
Working with photos and videos
Working with your Parish Forms
Working with your calendar
Adding & Editing Staff Members to the website
Working with e-blasts
Working with parish blogs


These are covered in great detail in the sections that follow below.

8.0 STEPS TO GETTING STARTED

Getting started is easy. Just follow the simple steps and information we have included for your reference in the following section. Here's a complete list of the sections you can find in this chapter.

IDENTIFY YOUR WEB EDITORS

- Administrators vs. Content Managers
- Calendar editors and Ministry Blog editors
- Who gets to enter articles to the website?
- How to create a new Parish User
- How to edit an existing Parish User

POST STAFF MEMBERS INFO TO THE WEBSITE

- Add/edit staff members profile to the website

COLLECTING THE INITIAL INFORMATION

- Enter your seed subscriber list
- What initial information do you need to collect?
- Information needed for Parish Info
- Information needed for Ministries
- Information needed for Sacraments
- Information needed for Religious Education
- Information needed for Share Your Time
- Information needed for Parish Blogs

ONLINE MEETINGS AND TRAINING

- The many uses of online meetings
- Setting up with GoToMeeting
- Accepting a GoToMeeting invitation for training
- Sending a GoToMeeting invitation

9.0 WORKING WITH ARTICLES

Posting articles into your website is a simple cut-and-paste operation. There is no computer knowledge required. It is best however, that the user at least knows how to send and receive email. Any computer knowledge beyond that is not required, but is a plus.

POSTING ARTICLES TO YOUR WEBSITE

- How to enter a new article to your website
- How to edit a previously posted article
- How to preview a posted article
- How to create URL Links to a website outside of ParishWorld.net
- How to create URL Links to a ParishWorld.net article
- How to create Email Links
- How t0 create Page Anchors
- How to create a jump page to link from your articles
- How to load parish forms and files to your website using Google Documents
- How to load parish forms and files to your website using your PWadmin Editor
- How to save and print forms as PDF
- How to save and print web pages as PDF
- How to edit the PARISH INFO section
- How to post copyrighted articles from the Internet

9.1 WORKING WITH PHOTOS

- Copyright issues and use of photo releases
- What's in our existing Photo Galleries?
- How to create a Photo Gallery
- How to add your own photos
- How to use non-JPG photos
- How to resize photos without PhotoShopTM
- How to create a photo slide show and link
- How to place a photo into the body of your articles

9.2 WORKING WITH YOUR CALENDAR

- How do I log in to edit my Calendar of Events?
- How do I create and edit a calendar event?
- Using multiple calendars for the parish
- Using individual calendars for Ministries
- Using individual calendars for Religious Education classes

9.3 WORKING WITH VIDEOS

- Linking to your own videos in your computer
- Loading your own video to the internet
- Linking to other videos on the internet.
- Embedding videos to your pages

9.3 LISTING STAFF MEMBERS IN YOUR WEBSITE
- Adding and listing staff members to your parish website
- Editing your staff member listings

9.4 WORKING WITH OTHER LANGUAGES

- How to enter Spanish articles
- How to enter Korean articles
- Availability of other languages
- Use page anchors to highlight bi-lingual articles

9.5 WORKING WITH PARISH BLOGS

- Standard parish blogs preset in your website
- Which ministries should get a ministry blog?
- Assign moderators for each ministry blog
- Blogs Vs. Posts - what's the difference?
- How to set up a new blog
- How to enter/edit articles in the blog
- How to approve a Parish Prayer Request by email
- How to approve a Voices from the Pews by email
- How to link your blogs to your parish Blogs section
- Monitoring articles posted to the parish blogs
- Moderating comments to articles on the blog
- Headlining blog posts on the website frontpage

9.6 WORKING WITH E-BLASTS

- Friday morning automated Catechesis e-blast
- How to set up an email mailing list
- How to send on-demand (ad-hoc) e-blasts
- How to collect emails from your parish

9.7 ADVANCED EDITING TIPS

- Open multiple instances of pwadmin
- Use prefix codes to manage your article file names


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USEFUL NAVIGATION BACK LINKS:
Chapter 0 - WELCOME TO YOUR USER MANUAL
Chapter I - GETTING STARTED
Chapter II -THE GOALS OF YOUR WEBSITE
Chapter III - CREATING YOUR ARTICLES
Chapter IV - MANAGING YOUR WEBSITE
Chapter V - GENERATING REVENUES
COMPLETE TABLE OF CONTENTS