Adding a news article. First, find yourself an appropriate news article. You can use the address, your own email, or whatever to find them. It should be stormwater, water policy, and /or water quality related. Sign into the website’s admin area (wastormwatercenter.org/admin) . When it comes to posting news, there are specific guidelines in the SOP. I will cover the ones for listserves here only, since that is 90-95% of the news articles that will be posted. If you have a news item you want to post from the WSU connect email (), DO NOT copy and paste from that account. Email it to the listserve email if there are links in the news announcement you want to keep, or copy and paste into notepad. Notepad will remove all of the bad code that connect adds to everything, but it will also break any links in the email. Forwarding it to another account, such as the gmail account already associated with the website, allows you to copy and paste without worry of extra bad code and keeps the links intact. This will work. It’s not stormwater, but it is water quality, and there is a fair bit of policy concerned. I add all “public comment” style emails to the news section. There are a few things to keep in mind: What is the article headline? What is the article additional headline? (While not required by Gearbox, I require it because of formatting.) What is the body? (Listserve emails tend to have extra text at the bottom, such as unsubscribe notices.) What is the timing? (Some news are time sensitive, such as the one above. Some are not.) Now…back in Gearbox
Adding a news article. First, find yourself an appropriate news article. You can use the address, your own email, or whatever to find them. It should be stormwater, water policy, and /or water quality related. Sign into the website’s admin area (wastormwatercenter.org/admin) . When it comes to posting news, there are specific guidelines in the SOP. I will cover the ones for listserves here only, since that is 90-95% of the news articles that will be posted. If you have a news item you want to post from the WSU connect email (), DO NOT copy and paste from that account. Email it to the listserve email if there are links in the news announcement you want to keep, or copy and paste into notepad. Notepad will remove all of the bad code that connect adds to everything, but it will also break any links in the email. Forwarding it to another account, such as the gmail account already associated with the website, allows you to copy and paste without worry of extra bad code and keeps the links intact. This will work. It’s not stormwater, but it is water quality, and there is a fair bit of policy concerned. I add all “public comment” style emails to the news section. There are a few things to keep in mind: What is the article headline? What is the article additional headline? (While not required by Gearbox, I require it because of formatting.) What is the body? (Listserve emails tend to have extra text at the bottom, such as unsubscribe notices.) What is the timing? (Some news are time sensitive, such as the one above. Some are not.) Now…back in Gearbox
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