NCCNewsOnline How To Post

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1 NCCNewsOnline How To Post Go to nccnewsonline.net and log in On the left-hand side click Posts Add New Enter headline where it says Enter title here o Headline must have a subject and a verb. No secondary head needed. Byline and Dateline in bold: By Tim Frank FULTON, N.Y. (NCC News) start article right away, no return Choose a category from the right-hand column Enter several tags from the right-hand column Choose your course from the right-hand column (this is how your professor finds your story) Set Featured Image from the right-hand column o Upload Files o Select image to upload o Write caption as a sentence of news, adding to what the photo shows. o End with: (c) 2015 Juanita Perez o Set featured image Click Yes box within Feature Image section under Use featured image toggle Save Draft Preview Publish when your professor says it s OK How to post audio Your audio file will not be featured at the top of the story, so you need to include a featured image. Go to SoundCloud and click on your story Click Share At the top choose Embed Choose the smaller icon to the right Click WordPress code and then copy the information inside the Code & preview box Go back to your NCC News story Scroll down to SoundCloud Embed Code Paste your link in the box SoundCloud Audio Title: write title of your story Audio Caption: enter complete sentence of news describing what s in the audio story Save Draft

2 How to post a Featured Video: still doesn t work Your video will be featured at the top of the story. But, leave the featured image you created in the first step because that s what will appear next to your story on the home page. Scroll down to Featured Video Featured Video YouTube ID: find your video on YouTube and enter the text that follows the = in the URL. For example: o YouTube URL: o You only paste: CmBD45O5IUU Video Caption: enter a complete sentence of news describing what s in the video. End the sentence with (c) 2015 your name Featured Video Credit: leave blank How to include photos in the body of the story: Scroll down to Subsection Photos under Post Relationship Add new Subsection Photo Select image Once in Media Gallery, choose the image you want to include Title: can leave blank Caption: can leave blank Alt Text: leave blank Description: leave blank Select Subsection Photo Caption Write caption as a sentence of news, adding to what the photo shows and end caption with (c) 2015 your name or photo source Subsection Photo Paragraph Placement choose in which paragraph you want the photo to appear Subsection Photo Alignment choose left or right Save How to post a video within the text of the story: Use this option for an extra interview you weren t able to include in the main video story Find your video on YouTube and copy the text that follows the = in the URL Scroll down to Subsection Videos Add New Subsection Video Subsection YouTube ID: paste YouTube text that follows the = Subsection Video Caption: enter a complete sentence of news describing what s in the video and end caption with (c) 2015 your name Save

3 How to post a photo gallery (slideshow): still doesn t work Your gallery will be featured at the top of the story; no need to create a featured image. If you have already set a Featured Image, go back and Remove featured image. Scroll down to Photo Gallery Images under Post Relationship Click Add New Photo Gallery Image Click Select image Choose the image you want to upload Title: can leave blank Caption: can leave blank Alt Text: can leave blank Description: can leave blank Select Photo Gallery Image Caption: Write caption as a sentence of news, adding to what the photo shows and end caption with (c) 2015 your name or photo source Photo Gallery Image Order Number: fill in? Image Orientation: landscape preferred, portrait OK is this still accurate? Save Add New Photo Gallery Image Follow previous instructions Save All Photo Gallery Images **Note: the order of the slide show will be the reverse order you upload the photos. Last photo uploaded appears first in the slideshow. The last photo uploaded is the Cover Image for the slideshow is this still correct?

4 Use the tool bar above the text box to format text Bold: Create bolded font. Italics: Create italicized font. Strikethrough: Create font with a line through it. Unordered List: Create a list in your article with bullets. Ordered List: Create a list with number. Blockquote: Highlight/indent a quote. Align Left: Align text to the left. Align Center: Align text to the center. Align Right: Align text to the right. Link: Add a hyperlink to words in your article. Unlink: Take a link away from words in your article. Insert More Tag: Do not use. Does not work. Distraction Free Writing Mode: Allows for simpler format in writing screen. The last icon on the first row - the kitchen sink - gives you this second row: Format Bar: The default is paragraph. Use it. For subheads in a long story: use Heading 2 Underline: Font is underlined. Align Full: Create fully-aligned text. Select Text Color: Leave black Paste as Plain Text: Use when you paste from the web or another document so text is formatted correctly. Paste from Word: Use when you paste from a Word document Remove Formatting: Removes all changes made to format from highlighted text. Insert Custom Character: Gives a choice of many custom characters. Outdent: Moves indented text back to the left. Indent: Indents text to the right. Undo Redo WordPress Help

5 Checklist: Avoid the 10 Most Common Mistakes Spelling is correct. o Review what s underlined in red Headlines have a subject and a verb. o The headline is no more than two lines. o Words in the second line extend at least halfway across. o Each word in the title headline is capitalized. o Subheads are not required, but can be used for a long story. The byline/dateline is formatted and capitalized correctly. o By Firstname Lastname CITY, N.Y. (NCC News) - The story starts here o Examples: o By Mannie Holmes CAZENOVIA, N.Y. (NCC News) - The Town of Cazenovia is o By Nigel Duara TROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) - A teen armed with a rifle. o Note the capitalization: Only the city is all caps. State abbreviations are AP abbreviations, not postal abbreviations. Verbs are past tense for quotes. Shoot for present or future tense in the lead (what s next?). Quotes are punctuated correctly, with attribution after the first sentence. o Examples: o It s great that the state has done this, Strobel-Gower said. People with disabilities don t use the word handicapped, and haven t for a long time. o I feel sorry for the taxpayers, but this is a much bigger problem than just the Town of DeWitt, said Jim Clune, one of the protestors. (Put said first if a phrase comes after the name.) Photos are horizontal, not vertical. Photo captions are a sentence of news with a subject and a verb. They add news or information to what the picture itself communicates. The photo copyright notice follows this format: (c) 2015 Newie Newhouse The story is tagged by topic and by class. You ve looked at the published story online. Video and audio appear at the top and play correctly.