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Newsletter
Our Newsletter tool lets you easily create a newsletter for your community. With it, you can gather articles from community members, edit them, and then automatically send out a completed newsletter to everyone on your Address List.
To start publishing a newsletter from your Web site, you'll need to complete a few steps. First, take a few minutes to review our Terms and Conditions. Then, do the following:
- Sign up for this feature, so that part of your allotted server space will be reserved for your newsletter
- Install a link on your page so that people can contribute articles to your newsletter with an Article Entry Form
- Decide how you want the Article Entry Form to look
- Install a link on your page so that people can view your newsletter
- Decide how you want your newsletter to look, and start editing
articles.
Here are instructions for each of these steps . . .
The newsletter uses 100 kilobytes of your allotted server space.
- Reserve space
Before attempting to create a newsletter on your page, go to your
Features Profile and select the Newsletter option. (Remember that 100KB of your allotted Web server space will be reserved for your newsletter.)
- Create an Article Entry Form for Your Newsletter
To let visitors to your page submit articles to your newsletter, you will need to place a link on your page to an Article Entry Form. You can do this in two ways:
- Use our Quick Template to create a new page that contains an Article Entry form, which will allow community members to submit articles.
Or . . .
- On a Web page you've already created, insert the following text at the spot you would like the Article Entry link displayed:
<a href="/cgi-bin/NLEntry?owner=emailid">
<img src="/global-images/guestbook/sign_ml.jpg" border="0"></a>
Important! When you use the second method, be sure to replace "emailid" with your own e-mail ID. (Your e-mail ID appears before the "@" sign in your e-mail address.)
- Format Your Article Entry form
Use our Article Entry Format Template to customize the title and appearance of the entry form that your contributors will use to submit articles.
- Create a "View My Newsletter" Button
To let visitors to your page view your newsletter, you will need to place a "View My Newsletter" link on the page. You can do this in two ways:
- Use our Quick Template to create a new page that contains a "View My Newsletter" button
Or . . .
- On a Web page you've already created, insert the following text where you would like the "View My Newsletter" button displayed:
<a href="/cgi-bin/NLEntry?owner=emailid">
<img src="/global-images/guestbook/sign_ml.jpg" border="0"></a>
Important! When you use the second method, be sure to replace "emailid" with your own e-mail ID. (Your e-mail ID appears before the "@" sign in your e-mail address.)
- Manage Your Newsletter with the Newsletter Wizard
Go to our Newsletter Wizard to create the look of your newsletter and to get access to the submitted articles. You'll be able to edit the articles, add graphics and, with a push of a button, publish a complete newsletter for the enjoyment of all the visitors to your site.
Reminder About Terms and Conditions
The Terms and Conditions apply to your use of the Newsletter Tool and the content you publish in your newsletter. Here are two important reminders:
- You remain responsible for all content that appears in your newsletter, even if you were not the author or creator.
- Please pay attention to the law of copyright. You will need to make sure that youhave the legal right to upload and publish any content that you did not create yourself. Others who submit articles for your newsletter may wish to reserve a copyright in their submission. You may resolve questions of your right to publish directly with them.
Here is a complete set of Terms and Conditions.
You can get started right now by following the steps above. Or you can read on to get an overview of how the Wizard works.
Using the Newsletter Wizard
The Newsletter Wizard is a powerful program that asks you a series of questions and builds your newsletter accordingly. You'll use it after you've collected articles for the newsletter and you're ready to put them all together into a final document. Once you use the Wizard, your newsletter will be posted on your site and sent out by e-mail to the Community Members List. If you've used other Wizard programs, like our Page Wizard, you'll find many of its features to be familiar.
Here's a summary of what the Wizard will ask you for:
- The first page of the Wizard asks you to provide a title for your newsletter and a name for the HTML file. Enter the required information and click Next.
- The second page of the Wizard asks you to specify a color scheme for your newsletter. Click Next when you are finished.
- The third page of the Wizard asks you to specify properties of the newsletter layout, such as the number of columns and the placement of borders and images. Click Next when you are finished.
- The next page asks you to choose an article to add to the newsletter. Select the article you want to add and then click Next.
- The next page allows you to edit the article that you just added. When you are finished, click Next.
- The previous steps will be repeated until you have added as many articles as you want. Note that the first article added appears at the top of the page, the second article is displayed immediately below or beside it, etc.
- When you have added all the articles you wish, click Save Draft or Publish.
Go to the Newsletter Wizard
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