The newsletter section can increase people’s interest in the key ministries and activities of your church. The newsletter component is designed to create individual articles, like an online newspaper. However, many churches create their newsletter off line and want to upload the complete newsletter in a PDF format rather than individual articles. Both methods are explained.

1. Login into your site
2. Click on “Edit Site” and navigate to the News page
3. Click on the “Add Newsletter” link
4. You are now on the “Create New Page” screen.  Add your ‘Page Name’ (which will also be the title that appears on the news page) and click ‘Create page and view page’
5. You should now be viewing the page. Click the ‘edit page’ green button at the top
6. Add content to the news article:
   1. Click on the ‘EDIT’ button in the component header directly above the test /image component (this is the second component on the page, the page title is the first component)
   2. You can type your newsletter title in the title box, add you Authors name, and then paste in or type in the newsletter content. If pasting in from Word you might find the copy difficult to edit. If you paste content into Notepad first and then into your site text component you can format the content using the site editor
7. Change or delete the image
   1. To change the image
   2. Click “Click here to change this image”
   3. From the “Select Image” page you can either upload a GIF or JPG image or you can select from uploaded images by clicking on the blue menu on the left. Remember web pictures show at 72 dots per inch and should be correctly sized before uploading
   4. To delete the image click on the ‘Change layout’ yellow box in the upper right and select a non-image text component. You will lose the newsletter title and have to re-enter it in the Paragraph text
8. Click the ‘Apply changes’ button. You can now add additional content components to the page if you wish
9. Before leaving the page scroll to the bottom and type in a brief description of this newsletter. This and the page title will appear on the news page
10. Click the ‘Apply Changes’ button at the bottom of the page.

1. Convert or save your newsletter into a PDF format. Usually you want to use the ‘smallest size’ option to reduce upload and download time. It is best if you file name has no blanks or symbols (dashes and underscores are fine)
2. Login to your website and click on the file manager icon (filing cabinet) on the admin page and click on the ‘General’ tab and upload your PDF document
3. Click on the properties for the uploaded document and copy the http: address without the ‘http://’
4. Go to your news page and click on ‘Add Newsletter’ and add the title and click ‘Create page and view page’
5. Click on the ‘Edit Page’ green button at the top
6. Delete the image / text component (the second component on the page after the page title component) by clicking the ‘x’ in the component header and confirming
7. Add an iframe component to the page by clicking the green ‘ADD’ button in the section 1 heading and selecting the ‘Standard / HTML’ category and the iframe component
8. Paste the copied HTTP: address for the document into the Web Site box and adjust the height (800 should be appropriate) and click ‘Apply Changes’
9. Before leaving the page scroll to the bottom and type in a brief description of this newsletter. This and the page title will appear on the news page. You might highlight some of the key articles in the newsletter
10. Click the ‘Apply Changes’ button at the bottom of the page.

If you upgrade to interactive site you have a calendar function.  That allows you to enter key events and choose the most important to go onto the news page by selecting the ‘visible’ option.  If you stick with the basic plan, you can use announcements for your calendar events.  Otherwise keep the announcements to non-date specific announcements, like new staff, program opportunities, prayer needs, etc.  Use the calendar for  date specific events.

To add announcements use the “add announcement” button on the News page when you are in the site editor.  After you have finished adding announcements, go to the page list, delete old announcements and reorder announcements if you need to.  Remember, the default is for announcements to appear in reverse order on the News page from how they are listed on the page list. All of your announcements will appear on the announcements page (you add an announcements page to your site from the add page function) but only the pre-set number of announcements will appear on the news page. You can change the pre-set number by clicking on the edit button for the announcements component.

1. Login into your site.
2. Click on “Edit Site” and navigate to the News page
3. Click on the “Add Annoucement” link
4. You are now on the “Create New Page” screen.  Add your ‘Page Name’ (which will also be the title that appears on the news page) and click ‘Create page and view page’
5. You should now be viewing the page. Click the ‘edit page’ green button at the top
6. Add content to the announcement:
   1. Click on the ‘EDIT’ button in the component header directly above the test /image component (this is the second component on the page, the page title is the first component)
   2. You can type your content or paste it in from another application. If pasting in from Word you might find the copy difficult to edit. If you paste content into Notepad first you can format the content using the site editor
7. Click the ‘Apply changes’ button. You can now add additional content components to the page if you wish
8. Before leaving the page scroll to the bottom and type in a brief description of this announcement. This and the page title will appear on the news page
9. Click the ‘Apply Changes’ button at the bottom of the page.