Do-It-Yourself Newsletter

 

The Do-It-Yourself Option provides a mechanism for you maintain many areas of your web site without specialized software like MS FrontPage 2003 and without a webmaster. 

 You can use MS Word, MS Publisher or any other desktop software that creates files in PDF or HTML format.  MS Word created this file.


 

TIP
Each month replace this file with your current Newsletter.  Also, place your Newsletter in the Newsletter Folder filed in the correct year folder for archival purposes.

 

How to do it?
We created this newsletter with MS Word. 
We set the background color (Format à Background).

We created Text Boxes (Insert à Text Box à Horizontal) and drew the text box to the size we wanted.  We arranged the text boxes as shown.

To Update Most Recent file:
We saved the file as newsletter.htm for uploading to Club Folder. (FILE à SAVE AS à File Name = newsletter and Save As Type = Web Page).  Please note, the file name suffix (.htm) is added automatically by MS Word when you specify the “Save As Type” as Web Page.

To Update Archive File:
Save the file again using the standard file names you have adopted for your archival files.  For example, use Save as with filename = Newsletter-2006-10 for uploading in the Newsletter Folder (Newsletters folder stores archived Newsletters in Year folders).  (FILE à SAVE AS à File Name = Newsletter-2006-10 and Save As Type = Web Page).

You may also store your Newsletters as PDF files using a format such as 01.pdf (Jan), 02.pdf.  Of course, you may use the same naming convention for HTML file: 01.htm , 02.htm, and so on.  (See Newsletter table by year and month on Home Page 2).