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It's so easy even 7 year old children can do it. If you are able to move a mouse, click a few buttons and string a few sentences together you can maintain a cutting edge site.
We'll give you all the training you'll need, support you on the phone or with email, all to make sure you get the best out of your investment.
Our killer features are:
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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Monday, 25 June 2007
Mo, Jun 25, 2007More email interface
The email two weblog interface is growing, again. Now, you can email into your discussion group or to a story (as well as the normal news items).
Want to create a new page? Perhaps you want to show students work, but didn't want it on the front page. Perhaps, there's some building work, or you want to create a history of your school... In all these cases, I'd always put them on the front page, but some schools don't like this and want them deeper inside.
Now, all you need do is send your email with the switch [story] in the subject line. Later, you'll probably want to put the story in the site structure so it becomes part of the little green folders. Just edit the story and add the path to the yellow admin box.
What if you want to use your discussion group more, want to email a message into the site specifically for discussion? Perhaps you want to use your site as an adjunct to a mailing list. (The bulletins feature is perfect for informing all that a new 'something' is on the site and ready for discussion.)
Just add [dg] to the subject line.
Want all email into your site to go in as a story or discussion group message? There's a new preference on the Editors only: ==> Prefs ==> Email-to-weblog that allows the setting of the default position of all your emails.
Pick discussion group, and ALL emails will be places into your discussion group, same with stories. Leave it as it is for it to remain as news items.
If you want to override this setting, just add the switch to the subject line of your email.
[newsitem]
[story]
[dg]
For more switches see the long and growing how tos.
So, a good subject line maybe [xl] The buzzing of the bees [[notices school trips]] [newsitem] [nc]
Or, [xs] The buzzing of the bees [story] [nc]
Remember, you needn't add anything to the subject line... It will always become a news item (if you've not changed the Prefs) and give you 200 wide thumbnails. You can always edit the captions and alter the sizes of the thumbnails later, as well as picking which department the news item ends up in.
Want to create a new page? Perhaps you want to show students work, but didn't want it on the front page. Perhaps, there's some building work, or you want to create a history of your school... In all these cases, I'd always put them on the front page, but some schools don't like this and want them deeper inside.
Now, all you need do is send your email with the switch [story] in the subject line. Later, you'll probably want to put the story in the site structure so it becomes part of the little green folders. Just edit the story and add the path to the yellow admin box.
What if you want to use your discussion group more, want to email a message into the site specifically for discussion? Perhaps you want to use your site as an adjunct to a mailing list. (The bulletins feature is perfect for informing all that a new 'something' is on the site and ready for discussion.)
Just add [dg] to the subject line.
Want all email into your site to go in as a story or discussion group message? There's a new preference on the Editors only: ==> Prefs ==> Email-to-weblog that allows the setting of the default position of all your emails.
Pick discussion group, and ALL emails will be places into your discussion group, same with stories. Leave it as it is for it to remain as news items.
If you want to override this setting, just add the switch to the subject line of your email.
[newsitem]
[story]
[dg]
For more switches see the long and growing how tos.
So, a good subject line maybe [xl] The buzzing of the bees [[notices school trips]] [newsitem] [nc]
Or, [xs] The buzzing of the bees [story] [nc]
Remember, you needn't add anything to the subject line... It will always become a news item (if you've not changed the Prefs) and give you 200 wide thumbnails. You can always edit the captions and alter the sizes of the thumbnails later, as well as picking which department the news item ends up in.
Mobile blogging of a school trip
A warm welcome back to Walsall Wood who've been quiet for nearly a year... 'Lots going on,' was the excuse.
A what a comeback! With a brilliant 25 posts over the weekend from their school trip. The Deputy Head has been pasting from his mobile phone. Snapping, then emailing in the pictures to the front page of the site.
The parents have enjoyed it, I noted many new sign up and their comments have been, IMHO, poignant. They're missing their children.
I loved the one comment, with a girl climbing a rock face, "Nice pose Abbie! Don't remember putting those leggins in for you to climb up walls in!!! Love Mom xx."
A what a comeback! With a brilliant 25 posts over the weekend from their school trip. The Deputy Head has been pasting from his mobile phone. Snapping, then emailing in the pictures to the front page of the site.
The parents have enjoyed it, I noted many new sign up and their comments have been, IMHO, poignant. They're missing their children.
I loved the one comment, with a girl climbing a rock face, "Nice pose Abbie! Don't remember putting those leggins in for you to climb up walls in!!! Love Mom xx."
