CONTENT Guidelines

What can be published

The web site includes a number of news feeds in several areas and pages of the web site:

• General news for any visitor
• Member related news
• Newsletters
• Time Trial related news
• Minutes of Meetings

Publishing news to those news feeds is as simple as sending an email to the web site. The news will be published either immediately or if a specific date has been defined, at the assigned date. 

This web site is for sports enthusiasts and amateur athletes. It is best to keep the tone courteous and friendly.

The content of the news can be 

• text, it is recommended up to 100 words per news. Formatting of the text, style and grammar checks are responsibility of the editor. For instance https://www.grammarly.com/ with the British English option set can be used at no cost to proof read the text for style and grammar.
• images, any photos or graphics should be resized to at most 600 px * 900 px. This avoids “chopped heads” when the news is displayed on mobile devices. It is also responsibility of the editor to ensure that images are within the recommended size. This can be done with any photo application on laptop, computer or mobile device.
• documents, only PDF documents to be posted. Word, Excel or other editable documents should be avoided, for security reasons.

Always keep in mind that visitors use increasingly mobile devices to access the web site, so less is more, particularly in terms of text.

Who can publish news and where

The news can be sent from any device: laptop, computer or smartphone. The system only accepts emails from users who have been previously registered as editors and only if the emails come from their registered email addresses.

How to publish news

Send an email to newsoftheweek@tasharriers.club in the following format:

• The subject line of the email should look as follows: (keyword): subject of the news.
• The content of the email can include any content as mentioned further above.

Example 1: Post news related with invitation to Members feed

Subject:

Members: Thirsk 10 Curry Night for Marshals and Volunteers

The system will use the keyword "Members" to assign the news to the Members feed. The keyword "Members" will be stripped out by 
the system once the news is posted.

Content:

Come and join us at the Thirsk 10 after party on Sunday 12th March at 19:30.  The traditional curry evening at Jaipur Spice (Busby Stoop Road, YO7 4EG). 

You can attach to the email images or documents. If you attach an image, the system will publish it at the top of the news.
If you attach a document, the system will upload the document to the web site and publish a link to the document.

Example 2: Schedule a news to be published at a specified date and time

Subject:

Members: Thirsk 10 Curry Night for Marshals and Volunteers

The keyword "Members" will be stripped out by the system once the news is posted.

Content:

date: May 3, 2023 6:08pm

Come and join us at the Thirsk 10 after party on Sunday 12th March at 19:30.  The traditional curry evening at Jaipur Spice (Busby Stoop Road, YO7 4EG). 

The system will strip the line with "date" and schedule the news to be published on May 3rd. 

If you attach an image, the system will publish it at the top of the news.

Insider information

If you got this far down the page and are still interested in our news system, this might be for you:

• The system posts news within 10 minutes of you having sent the email if you did not specify a date / time in the post.
• If you don’t use any of the previously mentioned keywords, the news will be posted as Uncategorized and will not be displayed anywhere but will be stored in the background. Please contact the Club Secretary to have the entry corrected.
• All news feeds show the posts sorted sequentially by date from latest to oldest.

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Use of hashtags

For posts in our social media platforms please use the hashtag #tash to build our brand on social media.