News module
This module is developed for publishing news. You may create news and articles and sort them out by the categories. This module can be used for websites that publish a lot of news, e.g. portals. You can create user who can login to the administrative panel and have the access to news publishing only.
News/articles are posted by special CMS tags.
Warning! All input data are related to a current language version of a web site (for multilingual web sites)
1. Add news category
Here you can create categories of news/articles. All news/articles are grouped in categories and you should create a category before adding news/article to your site.
When you create a new category you should fill in the following fields:
ID - ID number of a category. Digits only.
Name - name for the news/article category
Description - short description of the category for administrative use only. You may leave this field blank.
Priority (000-999) - priority of displaying categories in administrative panel.
Active - Yes/No. If the category is inactive news/articles from the category are not published at the site.
Number on news on page (0 -all) - the number of published news/articles short descriptions from the category per one page. If the number of news
exceeds
the number of news on page they will be displayed on several pages automatically
Number of chars in news preview (0 - all) - the number of characters for publishing short summary of news/articles. If you set 0 the whole content of the news will be published instead of the summary.
Template - for every news/articles category you can upload its HTML design template (e.g. site_module_sample01.html). If you don't need this and you want to use the same HTML design template as on your main web site choose the same template as for the site categories.
Small image width, pixels - width of a small image in px
Big Image width, pixels - width of a big image in px
These parameters of width for Small and Big Image work for jpg and jpeg images. If you set these parameters then thumbnails of the images will be created automatically. Thumbnail images width is the width you set beforwards, thumbnail images height is defined automatically.
For example you upload only big images for news/articles with the width of 300px and all small images will be created automatically from the big ones. Small images width will be 100px.
Note. Thumbnail is available for jpg and jpeg images only. If you upload images of other types your settings for images width will be ignored. Images will be displayed with the same size as you uploaded.
2. News categories
Here is displayed the list of all created news categories. You can edit any category by clicking Edit.
3. Add news
In the menu item Add News you can create site news/articles associated with site sections. You may create as many news/articles within sections as it's necessary.
To add a new page fill in the following fields
Header - news/article header
Category - parent category for news/article.
News text - full text of news/articles
Active Yes/No - indicates whether the news/article is active or not. If [Yes] is selected the news is displayed at the site FrontEnd. If [No] is selected this news/article is not displayed at the FrontEnd but it's manageable from the admin panel. This feature is useful when you are editing the news/article and don't want visitors to surf through the page meantime.
4. News list
Here you can see the list of all news/articles grouped by categories . You may edit any category by clicking over Edit .
Image upload for news/article. Click over the link Images of the selected news/article. The n ew window will be opened as it's shown below
You can perform image upload here by filling in the following fields.
There are two ways of uploading images:
1. If you have prepared images (Small image and Big Image) of any type (gif, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp) and you don't want to use Auto resized image then upload the images through the fields Small image and Big Image
2. If you want to use Auto resized image then you can upload only big image and a small one will be created automatically. In this case you should upload images through the field Auto resized image.
Auto resized image supports only jpeg, jpg images.
You can see the list of images uploaded for the news/article below the fields for images upload. New images appear there with the upload.