Posting
files
1.
If you are assigned to post articles, please check your front page work study folder for new files.
If you have access from home or campus, please do this daily. If you only
have access from the office, then do this on your scheduled work
days.
2. The files in your workstudies/news folder will have this
naming convention, work study initials, date put in directory, sequence
number, publication, first three words from title, date of article, e.g.,
cd 110102 - 01 st pete bush opposes plan 102302.
3.
Unless there are many links and graphics, most articles take less
than 10 minutes to finish. Articles
with many links or photos will have file names including sp
after the work studies initials in the beginning of the file name, e.g., cd
sp 110102 - 01 st pete bush opposes 102302. Files
containing more than one article will be noted with file names including the
number of articles after the sequence number near the beginning of the file name, e.g.,
cd news 110102 - 01 2x st pete bush opposes
102302
3. If there is a url in the file, go to the url, see if there are any graphics.
Most times there won't be. Also check to see that the file is complete.
Sometimes the file is an excerpt of the article or document at the url.
If you see "cut", or "continued", make sure you get the
entire article from the web site. Make sure you copy the entire url when pasting it to the address section of your
browser.
4. If there are pictures, you will need to save the image to the front page
site, do not copy and paste to the file you will create. Download the picture to
the pc desktop area, use the article naming convention in # 7, with these
amendments, the first two words from the title and a description of the graphic,
e.g., 103002_miamiherald_Bush_enviro_pic1_bird_ar. Click and drag the picture
to the same folder you will save the article to, see below. Copy any caption
text, as it may not be in the file I place in your folder. Caption
text font, arial 8 point, keep the text within margins of picture, do not bold,
include credit.
5. After you determine whether there are graphics and completeness of file, make
a copy of the file in your work study directory and save it
[file/save as]
to the appropriate
news/year/month directory. If the article is dated October 30, 2002, you will save the
file in news/2002/10 folder.
6. Insert the graphics and links to the file you create.
7. For the files you save, use this naming
convention, date_publication_first 3
words from title_your initials,
for example, 103002_miamiherald_Bush_environmental_agenda_ar.
8. If the document is an editorial, commentary, op-ed, or letter, press release, or report, note it in the title, 103002_nytimes_letter_Bush_retreat_on_accord_ar. if there are any other special pre-fixes, I will list them in bold in the file.
9.
In the html section (html tab in
front page) of the file
you save, remove anything in the title
section at top, and replace it with article information in this format, date,
first 4 words from headline, your initials. Indicate
if the document is
a letter, editorial, commentary, op-ed, press release, report, etc., e.g.,
<title>103002 Letter Bush retreat
on plan</title>
10. Set file page properties, margins, left to 60.
11. The date should be on top of the page, followed by the title, which is
bolded, arial, 12 font. If there is a sub-title, the font should be arial 10
point, not bolded. It should be placed one space under the title and and
above the by-line. The rest of the text should be 10 font. Add spacing
where appropriate.
12. There should be 1 copyright credit on the bottom of each article
page. Add any new credits to the most recent news month summary file at the bottom. Monthly news pages after
November 2002
are
listed alphabetically.
13. After you are finished with the news article file, place a summary and
link
in the appropriate monthly news file. If the news article is dated April 13, 1999, the monthly file will be
located under news/1999. You will add the summary to the 1999_04_index.html
file.
14. Copy the title and about five sentences or so from the first
paragraph. This summary on the monthly page should not take up more
than 8 lines, including the credit. Paste the summary in the appropriate
date section of the recent/index.html or
monthly file. The title should be bold, 10 point, no space between the title and
the text (not bolded arial 10 point). After the last sentence of
the summary, type Read more... Create a link to the article.
[Select Read
more..., right click hyper links, select the file, ok]. Add the credit line, copy
from the bottom of the most recent news page. Copyright should be on the
next line, with no space [shift, enter], 8 point.
15. Be careful that you do not accidentally select
the entire page (it will turn
black), as you could
delete it. This happens sometimes, so be careful. If the entire screen is black,
this usually indicates that the entire page has been selected. Please call me as soon as possible
if you believe you have deleted files or
directories The sooner you tell me the faster we will be able to resolve the
issue.
16. Include any related links in an indented
[click on the increase intent button on top menu] section 1 space below the
credit (arial 8 point). Include the date of the article or file in the
beginning of the link. Please include the links in the article file.
17. Press shift enter when you want to space 1 line at a time. Pressing enter will give you double spacing.
18.
To delete spaces, press delete. If you encounter problems deleting, you
may have to delete the space(s) by going into the html tab of the file (make
sure you highlight the relevant section so that you can locate the proper area
in the code affecting the spacing). The most common reasons preventing
space deletions in the normal view of the file in front page, involve <block
quote> </block block> and any combination of <div>
</div>. Delete the beginning and end tags in the relevant area and
go back to normal view (click the normal tab). You should now be able to
delete spaces in normal view.
19. If there are pictures, please include at least one in the recent monthly
page, and all in the article page. Please make sure the caption text is 8 point,
falls within the margins of the picture, that it is not longer than the length
of the picture.
20. There should about 2 spaces between dates, and 1 between articles. Dates
should be bold, 12 point and yellow
highlighted.
21. After you are done with the finished file, and have created the summary and
link in the recent, monthly pages, move the one I placed in your news folder to
the done directory in your work study folder. This way I know when you are
finished with the files. Please work with the oldest, files, and work your way
down.
22. Please keep accurate record of your
time. This is what I expect:
10/30/02, 1pm -6pm, 5 hrs, posted 22 articles, mn 110102 - 01 thru ... - 12; mn 111002 - 01 thru
... - 10;
23. I also expect that you will work on these assignments at least at the pace
of the work schedule you provided. Unless I receive notification indicating
otherwise I expect that you will work on the days listed o your schedules.
A pace of about 5 - 6
articles per hour is expected, especially if you work at the office where the
internet connections are very good.
Exceptions will be made for more involved
articles and documents and for new work studies. Please let me know when you
experience any difficulty or delay by email and by noting these issues in your
work sheet notes. Please do not comment on articles with less than 2 links
or pictures. .
24. Email me if you are done with all
articles or if there are no articles in your news
folder.