How To Add a News Item to the Website.
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Open the file news.html in a text editor.    (Notepad or pfe or vi or emacs or whatever)

Your next story is going to go just below the tag that says

<div id="content">

Find it.

Make a couple of spare lines below it ( Enter Enter)


You are going to have three elements to the story, in adequate journalistic style, called:-

Headline;
Standfirst;
and the copy, or content or text of the story.

So:-

1.  Headline
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The headline starts with <h2> and ends with </h2>

The bit in the middle is definitely not my problem,
but I'd offer Jakob Nielsen's advice on writing them if anyone wants advice:-

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980906.html

 -------- I don't like the way the headline looks -----------------------------------------XXX
The appearance of _all_ headlines can be changed by altering the style sheet statement in the file
new2.css but this changes all 2nd level headings in the whole site.

The appearance of all healdlines just on this page can be changed
by adding a style sheet in the top of this page:-
<style>
        h2      {font-size:200%; font-color:purple;text-decoration:underline;text-align:right;}
</style>
For instance.

The appearance of one headline can be changed by adding a style statement in the opening tag
of that healdine like this:-

<h2 style="font-size:200%;">

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<h2>Not Much Happens for Several Months</h2>


2.  Standfirst
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This is a one-line summing up of the sort of story this is.
Many people may only read this.
It could be a header, but it isn't really, logically, so it is a paragraph.

Start it with a <p> tag giving the class it belongs to,
this class has an appearance defined in the new2.css style sheet.
The new editor can have all teh standfirsts changed in one go by having the class style edited there,
the same applies to modifying this page, or a single paragraph as did to headers as above.

<p class="standfirst">

All paragraphs end with a closing tag </p>

<p class="standfirst">Few things worthy of note</p>



3. Some sort of story copy
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THis is a stnadard paragraph.  You can change that if you like,
by defining a style, in page in story or in site, and giving it a class of for instance "news".

Starts with <p>   ends with </p> and has whatever youfancy in the middle.

Long stories can be two or three paragrpahs.
If it gets to 4 it won't be news by the time the reader gets to teh end,
and it is probably some NHS brigfing regurgitated.

If you want a paragraph to be in short lines, then put a break in it.
Break is <br />

You will get away with <br> which is what Front Page thinks is a break, but it is bad.


<p>General Practice is actually busy enough to make it hard to get news stories onto web sites.  Now the site is up the effort will be reduced.  Watch this space.</p>


Is that all?
It is a good idea I'd say to put a separator in between stories.
Your mileage may vary.
I chose to put a horizontal rule in.

<hr />


You can get away with <hr> but again, it is deprecated and will appear wrong in a while.


---  Story done ---------------------

Now save it, then upload it in the usual way.
Run it pst the lawyers on the staging  - internal - site if you want, Whatever.


-- In a few years' time ------------

It'll be getting a long page.  I'd archive it, chopping the page into old news and new news,
and linking to the old news pages.

The NHS would usually delete it all, give themselves a new organisational name,
and pretend none of it every happens.

Whatever.  YMMV, and so on.  Have fun.


---- Pictures?  You want Pictures!? ------------------

In the middle of a paragraph just put this link

<img src="puncturedduck.jpg" alt="a picture of a duck receiving acupuncture in the pet's clinic">

(I'm assuming you have a picture, it is a file,
you put it in the same directory as the text pages are and it is called puncturedduck.jpg)


---- Its a web, link outward -----------------------


<p>The Department of Health ( <a href="http://www.doh.gov.uk">DoH</a> ) caught fire yesterday.
A spokesman said this wa sdue to inadequate performance by GPs, and announcd the formation of a new
supervisory authority to coordiante GP work on stopping smoking.</p>


Et cetera.