CityDesk 2.0-Documentation
Lesson 3 - Adding a New Article

Let's create another article.

  In the main window, click on the Articles folder. (In CityDesk, you can use folders any way you want to sort and organize articles.)

  Select File » New » Article or click on the New Article tool:

New Article

A new article will appear. Since the Articles folder was selected, that's where it will go. CityDesk allows you to organize your site any way you want to in folders and subfolders.

  Type a name for the article and press Enter.

  Double click the article you just created. A window will open up and you can just start typing away. Write something funny about anteaters.

CityDesk's built-in word processor lets you format, spell-check, create hyperlinks, insert pictures, and edit all the attributes of your article.

  In the article window, click on the tab that says Properties.

Here you can select options that affect how your article will appear. For example, you can write a headline, change the name of the author, etc. You can choose which template will be used to format the article. Right now your site only has one template. Later you can add as many as you want. You can also schedule your article to be published on a certain date or associate certain keywords with the article for searching later on.

  Provide a headline for your article. Type your name in the author box. Don't be bashful!

  In the article window, click on the tab that says Extras.

This is where you write other pieces of the article such as the teaser. (A teaser is a short introduction to the article that makes people want to read more.) Where these pieces appear depends on the template you are using. In the default site, the teaser is going to appear on the home page table of contents, while the sidebar will appear next to the article itself.

  Type a teaser and a sidebar.

  Click Save and Close.

  Preview your site again:

Preview

Notice that your new article now appears next to the original one in the table of contents, and it looks just like the original article. This is the power of CityDesk: when you have a new article, all you have to provide is the text of the new article. CityDesk automatically formats it, adds it to the table of contents, and publishes it to a web server.

  Next: Lesson 4 - Changing the Appearance of Articles

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