HowTo: News
Fancy yourself as Sherlock Holmes. Help MacMusic to be up the lastest news and find out important and fresh informations about music and Mac.
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It's very simple. Go and have a look around in every site in touch with Mac and music.
You'll find a lot of news at Zicos.com issued every 20 minutes and grouped together in a single page.
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Topics
Obviously, the topic of the news must be about Mac and music. It deals with music softwares on Mac, updates, interfaces, audio cards, plug-ins, rumours and major news about the operating system, new synthesizers, audio devices, DTD, Music business, recording studios, and so on...
Source
You must try to check out your information, above all, if you get them from uncertain sources. Do not spread hoaxes...
Regularly search and find out news in the "press section" or "press release" of the manufacturers sites.
Timing
As far as possible get some fresh informations (up to 3 or 4 days, no more). The fresher, the better .
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The form
You'll find it on the link below : www.macmusic.org/news/post.php
Title
Choose a clear and concise title, for ex :" Digidesign releases Protools 10". A short title is the best.
Write the news
You get two possibilities, it's up to you :
- either the news is coming from the manufacturer, and you can copy and paste the resume of the press release. But try to clean up the commercial waffle.
- or the news is coming up from another news site. In that case, you should NEVER copy and paste such a text. You'll have to rewrite title and contents with your own style...
Anyway, you don't have to write reams about it. Remember, be short, clear and concise
Don't hesitate to read the MacMusic news section . And draw your inspiration from existing news.
Tone is free and "english" humour is welcomed (except if you are not funny at all...).
Quote the source
- Quote the source of your information and mention the URL adress (use the field URL adress)
- The link must be direct. Don't send the reader toward obscure trails and difficult searches.
- Give an active title for the adress URL. "read the news at digidesign.com" and so on.
Category
In the scrolling menu. find the adequate category linked to your news
Comments
Use the field "comments" If you have special observations and comments to communicate to the publisher team.
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- Use and over use the button "preview", till you finalize your "well dressed" news.
- Carriage Returns will be automatically convert on the final page. The appearence of your text is identical with the final presentation.
- If the news is important, you can develop the text on a whole page. After 300/400 characters, the text will be cut by a "Read More" link
You can define the break point, by using a special tag [P] right on the ideal place.
- You can use HTML tags in the content of your news : <a> (link) , <i> (italic) and <b> (bold)
- Do not use complex and exotic caracters in the contents of your news: they would be ignored.
