Events are short paragraphs that cover the who, what, when and how of something happening.

A couple of things make for easy reading of events:

• Include the email and phone number of who to contact for more information
• Make the headline stand alone. Make the first sentence clear. These may be all many folks will see of your text.

Here’s how to add a new event. You may want to print these instructions (or download the PDF).

1. Login

Use the “Author Login” link at the bottom of the left column.

You can also get here using the grey menu bar— Church Life > Author Login

If you don’t have a login yet, click “Register” to sign up for one.

Then email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and the web team will turn on your posting privileges.

2. Pick ‘Add Event’

Once you’ve logged in, you’ll see a list of links on the left column labeled “User Menu”

Click on “Add Event”.

3. Type your text

1. Headline goes into the little box at the top.
2. Pick a category—the kind of event you’re posting—from the pull-down.
3. And type (or paste) your text into the large text area.

Fine point: If you scroll down, you’ll notice there’s a second big text area. Only text in the top box “Intro Text” shows in overview—like on the homepage.

Folks see the stuff in the second box “Main Text” if they click “read more…”

So important text goes in the top box, and page 2 details can go in the bottom. Most of the time, you won’t need a page 2.

4. Save your changes

The large black disk icon saves your changes. (Or, if you’re having an oops moment, the red x cancels them.)

After you save, if you’d like to edit your text, click on the pencil-and-paper icon besides the headline. That loads your copy back into the editor, where you can change it as you like.

When you do post something new, the web team gets an email that there’s new content for us to approve. We’ll post it as soon as we can.

5. Change publication date (Optional)

To publish the event sometime in the future—or to publish the story immediately (for those of you with super powers), there are a couple of settings on the Publication tab down at the bottom of the screen.

Two settings here are particularly useful:

• “Finish Publishing” should be the day after your event finishes. That way the web site will archive your event automatically.
• “State”—Change to “Published” to make your event appear on the web site right now. You may or may not be allowed to do this. Folks in the church office can; others can’t. If you can’t change this, don’t worry—the Communications Committee gets an email about your post, and we’ll approve it quickly.