Spotlight & photo rotation
News spotlight links should be changed once a week (or as soon as timely stories are obsolete), along with the corresponding image for the news section on the left.
The upper right photo should be changed every 1-2 months.
To change spotlights & photos
- Log into test site: http://libraries-test.mit.edu/wp-admin
- Hover on "Pages" on left, and click "Tree View"
- Click on the page for "Home"
- For spotlight links:
- Scroll down to find fields for News 1, 2, & 3.
- Enter blog title, and feel free to shorten to make it look good & read well on the homepage.
- Enter link to the blog title. Links should be in this format: /news/ask-chat/11876/ (so don't bother including the "http://libraries.mit.edu" and just start with the slash).
- For images:
- Scroll down to find fields for "photo" & "news photo."
- Delete the current photo (with the red x), and upload an new high-quality image or add an existing one with the exact size specified in the fields.
- For the news photo on the left, always link to the related news blog story. Links should be in this format: /news/ask-chat/11876/ (so don't bother including the "http://libraries.mit.edu" and just start with the slash).
- For the upper right photo, consider whether you should link the photo or not. If there's no added value for the user, don't specify a link.
- If you need to add a new image, make sure you add an image title that makes sense, & use alt tags for the image!
- For spotlight links:
- Hit the "update" button.
- After you look at the updated test page and everything looks good, make the exact same changes to the live site by logging into http://libraries.mit.edu/wp-admin and following the same steps.
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