Add a home-page teaser/promo#

FIG. 1 -- The home-page teaser/promo

FIG. 1 -- The home-page teaser/promo

To add a promo to the top of our homepage, go to the online edit interface:

http://edit.theday.com/apps/pbcsedit.dll/red

FIG. 2 -- The Links admin page – Creating a Link

FIG. 2 -- The Links admin page – Creating a Link

Go to menu item "Miscellaneous > Link Directory"

From the "Categories" dropdown, select "Home Teaser" and filter the results. Only 1 can be published at a time. If there is currently no teaser on the home page, there should be none published in the "Home Teaser" category.

To create a new teaser, click the "New item" button. If the category field isn't filled,select "Home Teaser" from the drop-down; fill in the Title Field (keep it short); the Description field (see Custom icons section, below) and the link field; if it's a link on our site, you only need the relative URL:

/section/sports/
/statenortheast/20160406/budget-plan-offers-painful-cuts-but-remains-out-of-balance).

In other words, you can strip the leading www.theday.com from the URL.

Once you've published your teaser, go to this URL:

www.theday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/misc?url=/misc/refer.pbs&nocache=1

That re-caches the teaser. Then reload the homepage. Your teaser should be in place.

To remove a promo, simply un-publish it. Only published promos show up in the promo spot on the homepage. No published promos = empty promo spot.

Custom icons

You can change the icon that displays with the teaser by entering a single word in the description field. If you leave the field blank it will display the teaser/promo text & link without an icon. These are the options for the description field. All you need is the single word in bold (or leave the field empty):