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Facilitates the publication of news articles, with accompanying photos, to the web. Articles are categorized as Releases, Announcements or Union in the Media.

Standards

Article photos are resized automatically, according to the following chart.

Type Orientation Size
Single photo Portrait 250 px tall
Single photo Landscape 250 px wide
Photo gallery Portrait 700 px tall
Photo gallery Landscape 700 px wide
Flickr photo gallery Portrait big
Flickr photo gallery Landscape big

Feature thumbnails must be cropped according to the following chart, before being uploaded to the CMS.

Location Photo Dimensions
http://www.union.edu 177 x 108
http://www.union.edu/news 688 x 250
Maintenance
  • At the start of each month:
    1. A new folder is created to store that month's articles and photos.
    2. Asset factories are updated to point to the new folder.
    3. A link to the new folder is added to the Archives page.
  • At the start of each year
    1. 2-year old stories are archived to a new content type.
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