Articles

Look for 'Articles' in the top navigation bar and click on it, it should take you to another screen that will ask you whether you would like to create a new article or edit and existing one. In your case, it would be to create one. So hit click here create.

The article in the Admin is made up of a few elements, we will go in order appearance of what and how to use each element of an article.

Page setup

• headline: you always need to add a headline to your article, there is a maximum number of 150 characters.
• section: you need to assign your article to a section, this will define where the article sits in the overall site map. It will dictate the breadcrumbs and navigation that will appear on the article page.
• access level: enables you to restrict access to this article. Select one or more access levels to define who can see the article. Refer the article on 'Access Levels' for further information. 
• byline: here you add the name of the writer if you wish
• Publish date: the article will not be visible on the site until the date specified here. This is also the date that will appear on the article is 'timestamp' is enabled.
• Unpublish date: the article will not appear on the site after this date. This is optional, if left blank the article will always be visible.
• Show time stamp: this allow you to show the date and time the article was published.
• Page header: You can also add banners and flash banners to you article page once you have uploaded them through "Media" as a 'Banner" of "Flash banner". Alt: allows you to give the banner a short description, when the cursor rolls over the banner the description will appear. URL: you can a url link to the banner, so if the banner is clicked on it will take the person to that url.

Copy

• Introduction: This field allows for up to 500 characters
  Body copy: This field allows for up to 30,000 characters with the standard formating function of bold, italic, links to other sites , link to other pages within the site , email link and adding a list. It is quite simple to apply these formats to your text. This works similar to formatting in word.
• Restricted Copy: copy included here will only appear to users with the associated access level even though the user is able to see all the other copy on the page. 

Images

• You can assign images to your article if you have uploaded the images through "Media" in Admin. You simply pick the image you upload in the list in this image section and save, if the image you want is not in the list, you can upload it through "Media".

Modules

• You can assign existing modules to sit on the right hand side of your article. Add the module ID, click 'active' and then either 'add to bottom' or 'add to top'. The module will be live immediately.
• Any moduels specified here will override Section Module that have been specified for the section.

Related Resources
You can also add related articles, images and urls to other sites here.

• The buttons are as follows:
  • update: will save the current changes to the copy but not publish them to the live site
  • make live: will publish the current copy visible in admin to the live site
  • preview: will enable you to view a copy of the page with the saved changes even if these changes haven't been published to the live site
  • delete: will delete the article from the database, this can not be undone
  • unpublish: will remove the article from public view

note:
- changes to images, related resources, and modules will go live immediately they are saved
- you need to save any changes to the copy before you click on the 'image' or 'modules' tab otherwise your changes will be lost.