'News' Section

The first notable feature is an upgraded 'News' box at the storefront. While this box existed prior to the installation of the Newsletters add-on module (Figure 14), it could not contain any dynamic content (it was using the basic news template' skins/default/en/news.tpl'). With the introduction of the Newsletters add-on, the 'News' box is updated automatically whenever a new message is added to one of the qualifying newsletters (Figure 15).

Figure 14: Generic 'News' section at the storefront without the Newsletters module installed

Figure 15: With the Newsletters module installed the 'News' section features new arrivals at the store

Before any newsletters are added and configured to appear in the news, and messages are added to such newsletters, the' News' box only contains a short subscription form (Figure 16).

Figure 16: Empty 'News' box

As the store administrator adds messages to the appropriately configured newsletters, their subjects are displayed as news headlines (Figure 15). Clicking on a headline takes a visitor to the page which contains the full text of the news announcement (Figure 17).

Figure 17: The full text of a news announcement

A visitor can see a complete list of all news messages (Figure 18) by clicking on the 'All news messages...' link either in the' News' box or on any news message page.

Figure 18: A list of all news messages and announcements