Tips on organising Events and News items in your site

Before hand there were many different types of content - including Page, Event and News item. Now there is only one content type (Page) with the option to mark that Page as an 'event' or a 'news item'.

This gives increased flexibility to the content editor:

• when the race is over, some people might like to modify their 'event' page to become a 'news' page
• whereas others might like to create a completely new page to put their results or race reports in and mark that page as a 'news' page instead.

Whatever way you do it, there should be only one 'upcoming event' page for each event on the site at any one time. Having 'Upcoming events' pages for 2005,2006,2007 looks pretty bad, and they are mostly just copies of each other anyway (and if they arent, then people run the risk of getting outdated information). It is better to either:

• Convert the event into a news item, and add your news and results above the existing content. This can be a quick and easy way to display results. Then you either create a new events page next year, or move the results off somewhere else.
• Or just create an entirely new news/results page, and change the date of your existing event to next year. That way, you use the same event page every year and it can be your 'landing page' for that event. If you choose this option, then your URL should not have the year in it.

The news items on the other hand can be very easily organised by year, and have the year in the URL