Here's a quick visual guide on how to create a new article with the CMS. You must be a registered user and granted Editor permissions by the site administrator. All articles are queued and will be published once the editorial staff has the opportunity to review them. We reserve the right to modify or deny publication of any articles that are deemed inappropriate in our sole opinion.

1. Create New Article Button: Navigate to the section you want the article to be published in. Click on the "Create a New Article" button. This will open an article form.


2. Article Title: In the "Add/Edit Article" screen, enter the title of your article in the "Title" textbox.

3. SEO URL: Put in SEO-friendly URL in "SEO URL Alias" field. After entering the article title and SEO URL field is blank, the system will auto-fill the SEO URL based on the article title. (Don't worry if you don't know what this means. All articles are reviewed and adjusted by the editorial board before publishing and they will select the correct SEO tags.)

4. Article Text: Enter the body of your article in the WYSIWYG editor.


5. Image Settings Pop-up: Clicking on the image in the WYSIWYG, you will see a small pencil icon in the upper left corner. Click again on this pencil Icon and it will bring up the "Image Settings Menu" that allows you to set Image Alignment, Size, Title and Descriptions, and even enter CSS Style.


Editorial Settings:

The following settings will modified by the editorial staff. You may suggest your desired options that will then be reviewed prior to the article going live.

6. Publish Status: Enable article to be published or un-published.
7. Publish Date/Time: Ability to set a future publish date and time.
8. Comments: Enable/Disable User Comments for this specific article.
9. Permission Previews: If this article is to be published in a permission-secured section, you can still allow an article preview to be viewed on the homepage or public-accessible sections. This is a great feature if you want to provide a teaser for future publication.


10. Sections: This displays the current section for this article. Clicking on different section will move the article to that section.
11. Categories. Click on any categories for the articles.
12. Permission Read Access: This lets you know which user-groups can read this article.


13. HTML Title: This is what you want displayed on the browser title.
14. Meta Descriptions. By default, if the user does not fill this in, the system will automatically will fill this with the first 100 characters.
15. Meta Keywords: Add any meta keywords for this article.
16. Click Save and your article will be added to the editorial queue for review and publication.