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Introduction to Article Manager

What is an Article?

Articles can look however you want -- like blog entries, news blurbs, static webpages, stories, magazine articles (with sidebars) or even entire multi-chapter books! Article Manager gives you the flexibility to create all these looks through an easy-to-use interface.

Articles are made up of pages and sections. For most purposes, you will create 1-page articles that contain 1 section. If that's your wish, you can skip to the next page. When you're ready to create more complex articles, come back and read the rest of this page.

Making Multiple-Article Stories

Although webarticle content should always be as short and concise as possible, sometimes your article needs to be spread across more that one article. Usually when this happens we create several similarly-titled articles with links to related content:

How to Plan a Party: Getting Started
How to Plan a Party: Choosing the Place
How to Plan a Party: Picking the Music
How to Plan a Party: Get the Word Out
How to Plan a Party: Collect the Cash!
Lease Negotiation Tactics
How to get a DJ
Advertisement Media Effectiveness Statistics

Problem is, for each one of the "Planning the Party" articles, we have to create links to 4 other articles! What happens if we add a article? We have to add & change links in 6 articles!

ENTER ARTICLEMANAGER!
Whenever you want a section to start on a new page, just check the "Start on new page" box. ArticleManager will automagically divide your story into pages when it's displayed on your site. Each page's title will be the title of the first section on that page. So now your list of pages looks like this:

How to Plan a Party
Lease Negotiation Tactics
How to get a DJ
Advertisement Media Effectiveness Statistics

and when you click on "How to Plan a Party", the bottom of the pages will look like this:


Previous Page Next Page

Page 1: Getting Started
Page 2: Choosing the Place
Page 3: Picking the Music
Page 4: Get the Word Out
Page 5: Collect the Cash!

Since this is all basically one article, they will all have the same link (example:www.yoursite.com/index.php ?module=articlemanager &ART[view:article:2]). However, if you want to link directly to page 4 just add"&page_num=4" to the end of the url so it looks like this: www.yoursite.com/index.php ?module=articlemanager &ART[view:article:2]&page_num=4

If you click the Print Icon, the ENTIRE story will print out. Not just the current page.

COOL TIP!
If you want to see the entire article on one webpage, change the url to &page_num=all