Guide to the Bates Website | Component Types

Bates People in the News Link Component (for OCMR staff)

Bates People in the News is a chronology of links to online news stories relating to Bates people. Each story is represented by a People In the News Link Component. Each component contains the following fields:

Screen shots: Fields: Field definition: What goes there: Specs:

Bates People in the News Link

Logo Displays the logo of the newspaper or news outlet image component containing logo

width must be 110 pixels

Publication Name of the publication text Formally written out: "The Christian Science Monitor"
Date Date of publication text Month, day, year
Abstract Brief description of article. Can be longer if there is no link available to the story text text
HREF URL of the actual story, if available. If not available (eg, password protected), then leave blank. text

full URL starting with http://

Note: Do not put URL of publication home page, only URL of story itself.

Image Component
(for Bates People in the News Link)

File filename for the logo (click on three dots at right for choices) filename for logo

must be 110 pixels wide

HREF The URL of the home page of the publication text Full URL starting with http://