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 * **Welcome to the opening edition of the School website service (SWS) newsletter. We'll feature excellent websites using the service, hints and tips, service updates and statistics.**

The most recent updates to the School Website Service include new design templates and RSS feeds for your news stories. We’ve also made improvements to the calendar, photo albums, internal links and featured news items.

Choose Website management, then Design whilst logged in, to view all the templates available to you.

RSS feeds are now available for your news stories. This will allow subscribers to receive your news in their chosen RSS reader. To turn RSS on, go to your news page, click ‘page actions’ in the bottom toolbar and set feed. Once you’ve turned the feed on, your website visitors will see an RSS icon on your news page which will allow them to subscribe.

Reordering photos in your photo album can now be done by simply clicking on a photo and dragging it to a new position in your album!

Feature: Wyoming Public School


Wyoming Public School has a great website that is frequently updated. It makes use of excellent photos, mentions strong local community links. The school has added excellent content in their[|class pages] section.

The photos used across the site are particularly good, showing happy students learning. There are very few //architecture photos//showing empty school grounds and empty buildings.

The school has customised some of the central content pages, integrating [|their own messages] with the central messages seamlessly.

Protecting a PDF file using Acrobat
You can protect your PDF files. This protection allows you to define many protections such as requiring a passcode to open the file, allowing or disallowing printing or copying and defining the changes that a user can make to the file.

Adobe TV has a video tutorial that describes how to do this on their website.

Still seeing your old website?
If you have recently published your new school website or will soon do so, you may notice that you still see the old website within your school network.

This is obvious if you see pages with links ending in "node", or you see the following screen when you attempt to log in to your website:

(service not available) This is usually due to local network configuration and can be easily changed by the regional technical support staff by following [|these instructions]. (Choose "I cannot view my site")

Managing newsletters
It's easy to manage your newsletters. SWS provides a dedicated section for your newsletters.



Newsletters are automatically arranged by year and date. Newsletters uploaded in 2010 will be displayed in the 2010 section, while those displayed in 2011 will be displayed in the 2011 section. If you need to remove a newsletter, click delete and it will be removed from the site.

This is the easiest and most effective way of organising your newsletters. You can find more information about this in our [|video tutorials]. ||