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How to: Categories Each Web site section that will receive news via Creative News should have a corresponding category. There are four steps to add a category.
Assign a category name and a parent category if necessary. To add a category, log into Creative News, and click 'News Settings' on the main toolbar. Next, click 'Categories', then 'Add a Category'. Now enter the name of the category that you would like to add. Category names may contain Letters, Number, Spaces, and Underscores (_). Some valid Category names are 'Top Stories', 'Top_Stories' or 'topstories'. Next, choose root from the 'Parent Category' drop box. ( After each category is created, it will be added to the parent category drop-box. This allows you to nest categories, similar to the way the folders can be created inside of other folders on the Windows OS. In other words, you can create a category named 'Top Stories', and create several other categories in 'Top Stories'.) When you are finished, click the 'submit' button to continue. Browse to the folder where articles will be saved. Now browse to the directory where Full Story Articles will be stored. ( This directory must have permissions of 766, and must be placed in the 'www', 'public_html' or 'htdocs' folder on most web servers.) when you have finished, highlight the directory name, and click 'Choose this directory'. Enter the folders URL that you specified in step two. Another form will appear. Enter the URL for the directory that you browsed to above. The URL should include 'http://', but the last slash should be left out. Example: http://www.jonmacpherson.info/Articles Even thought this is the path to a folder, the last slash is left out. Create and upload into the category's folder a HTML template. To start off, change the category's permissions to 766. or (Owner: read, write, execute; Group: read, write; Other: read, write). After the category is created, you must now create a template named 'template.html' and place this file in the category's directory. This template should be in HTML form, with markers. Each marker will be replaced with article information when an editor publishes the news. This process is repeated for every article. The results are then saved into the corresponding category's directory with the article's order-number as the filename. Each file is termed a full story page. A full story page is created for each article. Here is a list of Markers that can be used on templates.
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