News Items can be posted on our web site. Recent items will be displayed on the right above DatesEvents and the calendar.

Entries of interest to all members should be stored in our News folder, within the appropriate year subfolder. (Click on News under Navigation on the left. Then select the year.)

Entries of interest of a specific committee should be stored in that committee's group folder. (Click on Groups under Navigation on the left. If a committee intends to keep record of a number of entries, it would be useful to create a subfolder labeled News.)

An event may be added to a group folder or a member folder and moved later to the main News folder. This could be done by GAPoffice? staff or web staff else with appropriate manager status.

To Add a new item, go to the appropriate folder, select its contents tab, then select its add new item drop down menu (near its tabs). Select news item. Fill-out the form presented and select its Save button at bottom (or Cancel to abandon this effort).

To Edit a date or event entry, select the news item itself (from within the folder which holds the item). Its edit tab will be displayed above, if you have permission to edit the event.

NB: A news item must be published to show up on our site. Published also means it will be seen by all browsers, even non-members who are just viewing our front, home page. See state below.

NB: News items can not be edited directly from upcoming events because upcoming events they have been marked published: published items must be retracted before they may be edited.

The critical items to enter are:

Headline

eg, Proposition 63 Passed in California. Very short headlines are most effective for the small display area available. Put specifics in lead-in.

Lead-in

one or two lines that will be displayed in bold type when someone selects a particular news item.

Body text

All the rest of the information, quotes, etc that are of interest. It is also useful to include URLlinks to websites of organizations involved or news sites.

Short name

eg, prop63wins, or CalifProp63?, or some such. This will appear in URL and News folder content listings as if it were a file name (much more meaningful than default web site names like news.2004-11-04.8861752864).

State

Mark a news item for publication in our home page news column by selecting its state drop down menu towards the upper right (visible is normal state), then select submit. After you have finished entering your item, send email to our GAPoffice? staff or Publications Board or web master so they will be sure to review this event and mark it published.