1. Write your story in a word processing software such as Microsoft Word.
2. Select, name and resize your image(s).
   1. Images on the article page should be less than 300px wide.
   2. Images for the RSS reader should be 50px by 50px.
   3. Name your images similar to your article file name. For example, if your article is "homecoming.pcf", begin all the images with "homecoming-" then add words or a pixel size specific to the image (homecoming-50.jpg, homecoming-president.jpg, etc.).

1. Select your video(s).
2. Login into OmniUpdate.
3. Navigate to your News folder.
4. Select the current year.
5. Select the current month.
6. Upload your image(s) to the _media folder on the Production server.
7. Go back to the folder for the current month on the Staging server.

1. Select +new and choose your Article template.
   Notice the small orange icon in the right corner.
2. Fill in the criteria for the page form by following the instructions to the right of each line. Some things to remember:
   1. The article title should be attention getting and only between 40 and 90 characters. This title will appear in the RSS feed and on the article’s Web page. Good titles that are relevant to the article will also help people find your articles in search engines.
   2. Page description should be a statement from the article itself that entices the reader to know more. This description will appear in the RSS feed.
   3. Author:  Enter as Firstname Lastname and separate multiple authors with a comma. 
   4. RSS Feed: Find your RSS feed on the dropdown list.
   1. If you want the main college RSS (not a department within), choose your college name in all caps.
   5. RSS Article Number: Select the "article number" you have for this article between 0 and 5.
      1. If you chose "0", the article will be created and will be in your RSS feed. However,it will not be available to appear in your unit/college main page or UND.edu news lists.
      2. By assigning 1-5 to each article, your articles will appear in your feed and be available to appear on your unit/college main page or UND.edu news lists.
         
         1. For each article number (1-5), only the most recent article (based on RSS publication date) will be available to appear on your main page or UND.edu. For example,if an article is assigned as 1 and then you create a new article and also assign it as 1, only the new article will be available. This allows you to have one or more articles on your main page for a longer period of time, while the other articles on the display can change.
            
            Example: You have announced a new program and want that article to stay on your main page for one month, but want all other articles to change every couple days. Chose number 1 for the article you want to remain for one month and use numbers 2, 3, 4, or 5 for new articles. When you want to replace the month long article, assign a new article to number 1.
         2. Stories 1-5 can appear in any order on your home page (1,2,3,4,5; 2,4,3,1,5; 5,4,3,2,1, etc.).
   6. Remember to upload your RSS image to "Image SMALL." This is the 50x50px image.
   7. You do not need to include a RSS image MEDIUM. That is only for UND.edu.
   8. Name your article and keep the ".pcf" that is already exists. Choose keywords for your page name and separate your words with hyphens (ex: white-coat-ceremony.pcf).
      1. Please note you do not need to put the year in your file name. You are already in the folder for that month and year.
   9. Click Create.
3. Click Edit above the article title to edit the page.
4. Copy and paste your article into the body of the page.
5. Make any necessary formatting adjustments.
   1. Hyperlinking text
   2. Bolding a statement
   3. Making sub-headlines within the article
6. Click Save.

1. Click Edit in the right column.
2. Put your cursor at the top of the white column and click the Insert/Edit Image icon in the toolbar.
3. Select the photo you uploaded for this article (see step one.)
4. Enter the Image Description text. This text will describe the image in a screen reader.
5. Click Insert.

1. Video should go in the top position of the right column. Click Edit at the top of the right column.
2. Place your cursor at the top of the box.
   1. For a YouTube video, place the embed code from your YouTube video into the code of the article page and adjust the size to 300px wide by 250px tall. Add a character (anything will do) before the closing iframe tag </iframe>.
   2. For video you uploaded to the CMS, click on the Insert Media icon in the toolbar. Select your type of video. Browse to the video you uploaded. Clilck Insert.
3. Click Save.

1. Make sure you are finished with your edits and formatting.
2. Click Publish at the top of the page. Click Publish again in the information box that appears.

To update your college/unit home page RSS display, follow the steps below. You can display up to five RSS items at a time.

1. Check out your college/unit index.pcf page.
2. Click the Properties icon that looks like a wrench.
3. In the section titled Configuration Parameters, you will see five sets of three drop downs for each RSS item area (e.g. RSS News 1 OU Site, RSS News 1 Feed, RSS News 1 Article Number).
   1. Choose the SITE where your article is located. This will likely be your own.
   2. Choose the FEED where your article is located. if it is in the main college feed, that is the option in ALL CAPS. If it is in a department, those are the options underneath the college name.
   3. Choose the ARTICLE NUMBER the story has been assigned (1-5).
   4. Click Save at the very bottom.
   5. Click Publish. A new window appears and click Publish again.

After the page is created, the Web page title and description is separate from the RSS item title and description. Any changes to the title and description should be made in both areas by following #2 and #3 below.

1. For a general text/image updates to the body copy of the article:
   1. Login to the article page/
   2. Click Edit.
   3. Make any necessary changes.
   4. Click Save.
   5. Click Publish. A new window will appears and click Publish again.
2. To update the title or description of the web page:
   1. Click the Properties icon (looks like a wrench).
   2. Make any necessary changes.
   3. Click Save.
   4. Click Publish. A new window will appears and click Publish again.
3. To update the title/description/URL/article number and have that show up in the RSS feed:
   1. Login to the article page.
   2. Click on the orange RSS Items icon for that page either in the split screen view where it's up by the big green Publish button, or in the file view where it is in the row of options for that file.
   3. Click Edit Existing RSS Items at the top left of the info box that appears.
   4. Click the wrench icon in the edit column (if there is more than one listing that appears be sure you are editing the most recent one, which will be at the top of the list).
   5. Change the information you want to change in the info box (title, description, URL, article number). The article number appears in the Extra XML section and looks like <ou:categories>1</ou:categories>.
   6. Click Update.
   7. Click the Rebuild Feed link above the Entries on the Existing RSS Items page to publish your changes.

Here is a video that explains RSS in Plain English.

A RSS feed is a series of data usually links to pages, their titles, and descriptions. 

A RSS item is a title, description, url, and article number that is included in the RSS feed.

RSS Feeds aren't very appealing to look at without some formatting applied to them. UND has a couple ways of formatting RSS feeds on it's pages. (Chronological single feed, multiple feeds, feeds with images, feeds without images, etc.) Currently you must contact Web Applications to get an RSS Display on a page.

Here are some examples:

Chronological - 1 feed

Custom Ordered

Manual Item Display

When you create an article page you create a web page and an RSS Item which is inserted into whichever feed you choose. 

UND and OU feeds are highly customizable. Generally RSS feeds come from a singular source and items are displayed in reverse chronological order. UND and OU rss displays can show items from more than one feed and in any order that you choose.