How To Create a Newsletter | Scribe

    How To Create a Newsletter

    • Chris Skelly |
    • 26 steps |
    • 3 minutes
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    Tip! Newsletters are posted as articles to a section page. This tutorial assumes you have already set up a section page for this content to go in. If you want to just use the "Blog" section to house your newsletters you can forgo setting up a new section page. More on section pages: <https://docs.google.com/document/d/19QP0W1dVEAVE5B6syP_m-6kgZETI2crWBIVfQ30MRXM/edit?tab=t.0#bookmark=id.i5sxyhgzmx14> If you haven't already created a separate section page to house your newsletter, here's more info on creating section pages: <https://docs.google.com/document/d/19QP0W1dVEAVE5B6syP_m-6kgZETI2crWBIVfQ30MRXM/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0#heading=h.qda5sz2l527w>
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    Navigate to your SolidWeb Site
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    Click "Create"
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    Click "Add Article"
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    Click "- Select -"
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    Click "Newsletter"
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    Click the "Title" field.
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    Type the date the title of your newsletter "Local XXXX Newsletter - December 2024"
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    Click this button. (If you use a generic photo for your newsletters, you can use that, but it's recommended to export the first page as a .JPG or .PNG to use as the featured image.)
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    Click "Select file" and upload an image of first page of the newsletter
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    Click the "Alternative text" field.
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    Type "UAW Local 434 Newsletter Featured"
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    Click "Save and insert"
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    Click in the body of the article
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    Enter a short summary of your newsletter issue
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    Type ""
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    After the summary Type " Download the newsletter:
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    Click here.
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    Click "Show Document media"
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    Click "Select file" and upload the PDF of your newsletter issue