How-To Post a Newsletter
Jun 3rd, 2007 by Blake Brannon
Church newsletters are created on a monthly basis. These can be easily uploaded to the site to replace the current newsletter on the front page by following a few simple steps. This article will explain the details of this process.
The church newsletter is currently created in Microsoft Publisher. Before it can be uploaded to the web, it must be converted to a PDF. To convert the newsletter to a PDF, open the newsletter in Publisher and print the document. Select the Adobe PDF printer and save the PDF on the desktop. I recommend saving the file as “Church Newsletter Month Year“. For this example the file will be named “Church Newsletter July 2007″.
Now that you have the newsletter as a PDF, you need to upload it to Scribd. Once at www.scribd.com, you first you need to login to the site using your username and password. This can be done in the top right corner of the site. Once logged in, upload your document by clicking browse and selecting the “Church Newsletter Month Year” PDF on your computer. This box is shown below.
Once your file uploads, Scribd will ask you to give the document a title and to publish the document. Select the “keep private” checkbox as shown below and make sure the newsletter has a title consistent with the following. Press the “Publish” button.
Your document is now available. Press the “view here” link in the blue box as shown below.
Now you should see your uploaded church newsletter. What you now need to do is get the code required to embed the newsletter into the www.alamofirstchristianchurch.com website. To do this we need to select the “resize this” link (shown below) in the right column next the the newsletter.
You will now need to enter the dimensions of the document size you would like and select “resize” to generate the code. Select Width: 550 and Height: 600. Your page and code should look like below.
IMPORTANT: You will now need to minimize this window and open a new browser window and navigate to the admin panel. Login if you are not already logged in. This will bring you to the dashboard. Since we want to create a new newsletter, select “write” from the top navigation.
This creates a new post. The first thing to do is give the post a title. To be consistent, name the document “Month Year Newsletter”. You will next want to copy the code you generated from the Scribd document into the code part of the post. First copy the code generated on the Scribd site (shown above starting with “<object width=”) onto the clipboard. Then under your new post, select the “code” tab from the editor and paste the corresponding code into the editor. Your result should look the following.
Now select the visual tab. You should now see a generated preview of your uploaded church newsletter. You will now need to center it into the web page. To do this, simply select just to the left of the document and then select the “align center” button at the top of the editor. The document should move to the center of the window if you correctly did it.
IMPORTANT: Don’t forget to select the category you are filling the post under. For a newsletter you will select the check box next the “Newsletter” under the categories menu. If you forget to do this your newsletter will not show up on the front page and the default category assignment will be “Administrative”.
The end result should look like the below picture.
Now simply select the “Publish” button below the editor.
You have now successfully uploaded a church newsletter. If everything worked correctly the new newsletter will appear on the home page and the older one should appear as a link below filed as “Previous Newsletters”. If the page renders unusual or the sidebar information now appears below at the bottom of the page, you probably have made an error in coping your code into the post. You should either edit your post or just delete it and start over per these instructions.
