Creating a Newsletter

The Faculty Affairs newsletter is an important tool for communicating with faculty and staff, as well as other members of our community. Creating the newsletter on the website should be a fairly simple process. 

1. Add the articles you want to display on the website. These are usually longer articles, referenced in the MailChimp email following the first paragraph or so of the article. You can add images to the article with the image button in the text editor, or you can upload an image with the image file box.
2. For now, newsletter articles must begin with their title. So, you add the title in the title box, and then add it a second time a the beginning of the article. I recommend that you set these titles to Heading 2. 
3. Give each article an info tag of "Newsletter Articles" and then choose the text type of "Newsletter Articles". 

When you have added all the articles, create a "Newsletter Issue" record. For the title, you might add something like "April Newsletter". For the newsletter issue link, add the MailChimp link to the URL field, and put the date, volume and issue as the link text. Finally, link the issue articles that you just created to this Newsletter Issue. When you are in the Issue Articles field, just start typing the title of the article. The system will complete the title, and allow you to add other articles as necessary. 

Before you save the article, give it a URL alias (to the right of the box where you are entering text) which begins /newsletter/[year-month]. You can choose anything for what comes after the /newsletter/ part of the URL, but remember that readers will see that in the browser bar when they read the article. So, an article about the Year in Review might be /newsletter/year-in-review. Articles that have /newsletter/ at the beginning of their URL will display the newsletter tagline: Providing pathways for development, promotion, and everything in between.