How to Post Your Free Lansdale Graduation Announcement on Patch

Graduation 2016 is here and Patch wants to wish all of the high school graduates well as they venture out into the world.

Over the next month, Lansdale middle school and high school students, as well locals who attended college, will be graduating.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

Give your grad a shout out and a few tips about life or share your graduation photos by posting an announcement for free on our Patch Bulletin Board. Simply login to our Contributeville Patch page and post it.

1) Sign in to your free account at Patch — http://contribute.patch.com

• If you don't already have a Patch account set up, then click on the option to Sign Up on the upper right side of the page, below the fields used to Sign In. It looks like this:

• It may take a day or two for your initial account set-up— our awesome team of engineers just need to get you all plugged in— but you'll then be able to get posting throughout Patch for good!

2) You are now brought to the My Contributions page. On this page, you will see all of your previous posts in the "back end" of our system. To see the posts on the Patch site itself, you can click on your profile page — just click the byline on one of your posts and direct readers to do the same.

3) To start a new post, click "+ Create Article" in the upper right corner of the page.

• Your topic is Bulletin Board or Classifieds.

• Your community is in the right corner of the page. You will need to start typing the name of your community and it will appear. Click it when it appears to "assign it."

4) Enter your headline, article text (including a summary) and add a photo.

Writing Tips: Don't use all caps - Readers just won't click on posts that are written in all capital letters. Do capitalize the first letter of each word in the headline only. Also remember, you are sharing the News categories with editors. Publish once a day, please!

5) Click "Publish Immediately" and the “Green Arrow” button (if your button is orange, you will need to make sure you have filled in all the required fields!)

Your article is automatically approved and will be posted on the site! Be patient, you may not see your article at once. Do not publish more than once, or you will see it appear many times.

You’ll notice that blog categories are no longer on Patch. All user content is now found on the Patch Bulletin Board.

Great, relevant and local content will be moved up by the editors from the Bulletin Board to the main Patch page and Facebook.