Editors' Guide: Timeline
Go to Dipity or TimeToast and log in with the UNews password.
* Note: Dipity allows events without an exact date, whereas Timetoast does not (as of March 2010)
Dipity:
- Click on the "My Topics" tab
- Click "Add A Topic"
- Click "Blank"
- Fill in the details
- Then add events with optional photos
- When you are done, click "Embed Widget" in the grey bar. Set the dimensions to 640 x 480.
TimeToast:
- At the top right, click on "Your Timelines" and then on "Add a new timeline"
- The first field is where you name the timeline and choose and optional image for the whole thing.
- Then Add Events with a title, date and optional photo.
- When you are done, change the status (at top) to Published. Cick to "View" the timeline. Click "Embed / Share". Set any customization options (our UNews content area is 650 pixels wide).
- Copy the Embed code and put it into the UNews CMS (in the Timeline field in the Story section.