Newsys (Town News content manager):

Login – 1797

Password – vp4545 or 4545vp

Town news support

Login: smurphy@vicksburgpost.com

Password: PROVIBROJI

Web site

Login: admin

Password: Pass1234

Pictopia

Login: vicksburgpost

Password: vp1883

Publishing a story

1- Open Newsys content manager

2- import

3- New article

4- Go to bottom of the content editor page and fill in publish times

– Daily stories publish at 11:45 a.m. M-F; 1:30 a.m. Sat-Sun. Archive day is the following day, 5 minutes before the next publish time.

example: Monday story publishes at 11:45 a.m., archive date is Tuesday at 11:40 a.m.

CHECK AND RE-CHECK YOUR PUBLISH TIMES!!!!!

– Priority – top story No. 1, etc.

– Category – News, sports, etc.

5- Cut and paste headline from story in N-Design

– Place subheds in subhed box

6- Cut and paste the story in the content box. Take the byline and place in the byline box.

– Reporter e-mail goes at the end of the story. After last paragraph, hit return, do a shift-8, return again, then write: Contact Ernest Bowker at ebowker@vicksburgpost.com

7- Click create article at the bottom of the content editor window.

8- Repeat for all local stories.

TO ADD A PICTURE TO A STORY

1- Find picture in zimported photos and drag to photoshop

2- Size picture at 72 pixels. The width should be a max of 720 and depth about 375. For News pictures, verticals have to be converted to horizontals in photoshop.

**For news pictures that appear on the Web site home page, depth has to be 375 pixels and width 720 pixels.**

3- Change to RGB and tone.

4- File – save for web and devices. (Put pictures in a desktop web folder

5- Go back to content editor window, click on edit media

6- Cut and paste cutline into box

6A – photo credit goes after cutline in parentheses. Change quote marks and apostrophe