CMS Upload Guide
News items and offers can be passed to our SEO/SMM Manager (Ivan) who manages the website content. You may be sent news items or offers for newsletters that are too long for the venue offer/news tabs or group offers that apply to various venues. In this instance you can upload these yourself to fit within your deadlines HOWEVER you will need to set a CRM activity for Ivan to check it once you’ve done so that he can optimise it.
Step 1: Login
Login in the normal login area using the CMS login details (if you’ve forgotten these, ask Callum Russell or Ivan Reyes.
Step 2: Pick which section you'd like to update
You have a choice of updating the ‘news’, ‘industry news’ or ‘group offers’ page. News = internal news about usIndustry News = external news about venues , groups and the industry
Group Offers = offers that relate to a group of venues.
Step 3: Page Details, Meta Data & News Details
Each section (News, Industry News and Group Offers) looks the same – they just upload to a different part of the website) Firstly enter the article title and a File Name.
Try and ensure that the File Name fits inside the box (it can be a bit longer if required) and that any spaces are filled with underscores.
Example: Cateys_at_30_Conference
Then Complete the Meta Data box
Meta Title = same as Article Title (at the top)
Meta Keywords = Article Title, venuedirectory.com, industry news (change this to ‘Group Offers’ or ‘news’ depending on the area you are updating)
Meta Description = same as Meta Keywords (Copy & Paste)
Just above the Meta Data section you will see ‘News Details’.
Click the publish date that you would like from the calendar. At the moment you want to keep the status as ‘FOR FURTHER AUTHORING’
THEN PRESS SAVE!
Step 4: Update Text Section (Upper and Lower)
Once you save you will be taken to the list of articles. Click on the article you are uploading to have the below page appear again.
Type the text in the upper and lower sections. You can copy from word but when pasting into the boxes you will need to click the word button first.
Ensure the text is formatted as per the below:
Un-formatted except for being ‘Normal’ here.
You can use Heading 3 for any ‘titles’ within the copy.
Step 5: Uploading and changing an image
Scroll down to the ‘Image’ Section.
Choose File (image should be resized to 250 x 250 (or as close as!)
Upload
Changing an image
To change an image, you must first remove the image first and then re-upload a new one
DONT FORGET TO SAVE
Step 6: Linking to the venue listing(s)
We always aim to provide a link at the bottom of each article that goes back to the relevant venue(s) listing.
This should pull through when you copy and paste the article over, if not please create a hyperlink using the URL I will include at the bottom of each article.
To create a hyperlink, highlight the ‘click here’ and click the URL button and then enter the relevant URL when prompted.
Step 7: Publish
The last thing to do is to 'publish' the article. If you'd like to check the article formatting first, click the 'Preview' button at the bottom of the page. Once happy, change the status to 'Published' and click SAVE.
NB. It can sometimes take some time for the article to appear on the front end of the site due to caching.
Then Preview
Amend if required
Then SAVE