How to Create and Order Marketing Materials

Here are the steps to create and purchase marketing materials: 

  1. Click on the REQUEST tab and select Marketing Materials

2. Choose from the 7 marketing options by clicking on the Design and Purchase button

3. It should load the EDOnline Marketing Designer

4. Edit and complete your poster design then hit Save

5. Next, click “Continue to Order Form” to load the order form designer

6. Once you have completed editing the Order form, click Save and Continue to Checkout

7. In the shopping cart, choose the number of marketing materials you wish to order. Hit Check Out to proceed.

8. Fill out the check out form with your name and delivery address then click Complete Order

NAVIGATING THE MARKETING EDITOR:

I. THE EDITOR TOOLBAR

Hover your mouse over the different buttons to see their different functions. The same functions can also be found in the different tabs (PHOTOS, TEXT STYLE, etc) at the right side of the editor.

II. INSERTING AND EDITING PHOTOS

  1. Click Insert Image/Photo button on the toolbar or select an existing “drop photo here” box on your template that you wish to replace

2. Click the PHOTOS tab and select a category under PHOTO CATEGORIES

3. Choose the photo that you wish to use. Drag and Drop this photo over the inserted image frame, or over the existing image on your template, or drop it anywhere in the template (note that the mouse pointer will have a green (+)  to indicate that it’s okay to drop the photo)

4. Under PHOTOS SETTINGS of the PHOTOS tab, you may also apply different settings to your image such as flip, transformation, adjust its fit, rotation, etc.

5. You may also add a border, drop shadow and opacity to your image by selecting the FRAME tab > Border And Fill, and also change the frame size, rotation, skew, etc under Frame Location (also found in the toolbar)

III. INSERTING AND EDITING TEXT

  1. To fill out/edit the text in your template, click on a text box and click on Edit Story. From Here, you can also change the font, size, color and alignment of your text. You can also insert additional text boxes by clicking the insert text button from the toolbar.

2. You can also simply double click on a text box to edit it, and change the alignment, font, size and color of the text from the toolbar or the TEXT STYLE tab. Apply borders, color fill, shadow, etc to your text box using the options in the FRAME tab.

IV. CLIPARTS, BACKGROUNDS, PDF and QR CODES

  1. You can use the available cliparts and background under the RESOURCES tab
  2. You can also insert your uploaded PDF files under the PDFS & QR CODES tab.
  3. Add a QR code to your marketing to make it easier to access where to order your yearbook online. Click on the Barcode button from the toolbar, click PDFS & QR CODES tab, select QR Code Settings, then enter the website url under Value. You may also change the color and scale of your QR code.

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