STORY'S must be in and APPROVED BY THURSDAY AT NOON
Image Specs (upload file as 'image' not media path - T4 name should match the filename):
Size (Field Name: Article Image): 450px (w) by 338px (h) https://pixlr.com/
Size (Field Name: Homepage Feature Image): 900px (w) by 500px (h)
**DO NOT INCLUDE WHITE SPACE IN FILENAMES**
Filename Covention: "Friday-Issue-Date_image_description_initials" (ex: 9-18-15_image_lucas-event_ALB)
Upload to: Content → Media Library → Main-Site → 2017-18 → Images → News → "Current Year" → "Current Month"
Prior to re-sizing, please save a hi-res version of your image. If your story is the 'Featured Top Story' please send the original image to rbove@fairfield.edu.
Top 7 Stories - General Audience (DO NOT include personalized stories in this section):
- Upload image to the media library (see above instructions)... select 'image' not media path
- In T4 go to section: "News" → "Archive" → (select month matching publish date)
- Click "Add Content" and choose template: NewsAt-2017-Story
- Filename Convention: "Friday-Issue-Date_top-story_description_initials" (ex: 9-18-15_top-story_lucas-event_AB)
- Fill in all required fields (all field names have an "i" next to them - you can hover over this icon for more information)
- Headline for URL (this will be the last part in the story URL - in most cases it will match the headline - it should be all lowercase, no punctuation, words separated by hyphen)
- Homepage Feature (required if the story is the feature for that week - please send the image to the digital marketing contact listed in the current week's summary email from Jen S.)
- Audience (creates a link at the bottom of the story next to 'tags' - links to the T4 section with other like stories)
- Vimeo Embed - /wiki/spaces/DM/pages/31293851
- Flickr Embed - Please send to the digital marketing contact listed in the current week's summary email from Jen S.
- Additional Events (if you have a need for more than 2 events - please contact Digital Marketing with event information)
- SEO title, description and keywords (these items will not be visible on the story page but are picked up and visible in the search engines)
- Personalized Story Removal Date (this is the date you no longer want the story to appear under that audience tag)
- Update and Approve
News Articles
For news articles outside of the weekly top 7 (ie. social media link), please follow the above steps when entering a new article (for the filename please use "news-story" in place of "top-story". Do not save the article at the top of the list - please move the piece of content to the #9 position with the 'H1' content in the #1 position. Contact Digital Marketing to publish the news archive.
Personalized Stories (DO NOT include stories from the top 7 - General Audience):
**personalization is updated using the 'audience' field - it is important this field is correctly filled out**
- In T4 go to section: "News" → "Tags" → (select audience section with the highest priority)
- Click "Add Content" and choose template: NewsAt-2017-Story
- Filename Convention: "Friday-Issue-Date_audience_description_initials" (ex: 9-18-15_alumni_lucas-event_AB)
- Fill in all required fields (all field names have an "i" next to them - you can hover over this icon for more information)
- Headline for URL (this will be the last part in the story URL - in most cases it will match the headline - it should be all lowercase, no punctuation, words separated by hyphen)
- Audience (must be selected for all audiences you want it to appear for - it is pulled in under 'stories just for you' in the right column of the homepage)
- Vimeo Embed - /wiki/spaces/DM/pages/31293851
- Flickr Embed - Please send to the digital marketing contact listed in the current week's summary email from Jen S.
- Additional Events (if you have a need for more than 2 events - please contact Digital Marketing with event information)
- SEO title, description and keywords (these items will not be visible on the story page but are picked up and visible in the search engines)
- Personalized Story Removal Date (this is the date you no longer want the story to appear under that audience tag)
- Update and Approve
STORY ORDER
Thinkspace:
T4 Location: "News" → "Thinkspace Blogs" → (use template and update with most recent blog posts from thinkspace.fairfield.edu)
Template Name: Thinkspace Template
Tags:
From previous redesigns there are 2 content types currently on the pages (alumni, parents, friend, student, fac/staff, university) - 'top story template' & 'feature story template'
Homepage:
Top Story Feature (1): updated through nav id 671 (NewsAt-2017-Feature) - the section field needs to pull from current publishing month (starts at first piece of content and pulls in 1)
Top Stories (2-7): updated through nav id 667 (NewsAt-2017-TopStories) - the section field needs to pull from current publishing month (starts at piece of second piece of content and pulls in 6)
Personalized Stories: updated through nav ids 707 (alumni), 708 (parent), 709 (friend), 710 (student), 711 (facstaff) - start at first piece of content and pulls in 3; content no longer appears based on removed date "Personalized Story Removal Date"
Code Only Content: comments for force publishing the homepage
Archive: updated through two nav ids to pull in the most recent two months under the "Archive"
- NewsAt 2017 - Older Stories - 1st Month (701): starts at piece of content 8 and pulls in remaining pieces. Section field needs to pull from current publishing month & Number of pieces of content to display needs to be updated to pull in remaining content.
- NewsAt 2017 - Older Stories - 2nd Month (706): starts at piece of content 8 and pulls in remaining pieces. Section field needs to pull from most recent past publishing month & Number of pieces of content to display needs to be updated to pull in remaining content.
Images:
Upload to: Content → Media Library → Main-Site → 2017-18 → Images → News → "Current Year" → "Current Month"
Note: images from past designs live under: Media Library -> News -> News@Images -> "the current year" -> "the current month"
Archive (future months - add new sections here):
When adding a new section (month) - mirror the "H1 tag" piece of content into the new section.
RSS Feeds (located under assets):
At the beginning of every month the below navigation objects need to have the section updated to the current month.
- 'NewsAt-2017-RSS Feed out' (navID 730) **this is pulled into the digital boards**
'NewsAt-2017-RSS Feed out - Facebook' (navID 690) **this is pulled into instant articles**
Publish Settings:
The News section is ignored on all auto publishes. Those settings need to be removed prior to publishing the branch on Friday morning.
- Go to tools → configuration
- Click on the Environment tab
- Add variable "ignore-name-on-publish-36"
- enter the name of the section "news" into the field