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Blogs Style Guide: Image Galleries

Published February 10, 2020

By Megan Ross

Blogs

Default (Gallery Layout)

Exterior of the Advanced Technology Development Complex

This is the image caption.

People, wearing dress clothing, writing on a piece of blue paper.

This is another image caption

Students in the Walker Arts and Humanities Center

A third image caption

Person wearing medical equipment and working at a laptop computer.

A fourth image caption

Researcher measuring solution into a vial

One final image caption

Blogs Style Guide: Image Size and Alignment

Published February 10, 2020

By Megan Ross

Blogs

You will need to sign into the VPN when uploading images into WordPress from off campus.

Size

A view of campus at night from across the Keweenaw Waterway. — This is the image caption. This image is the large size.

Blogs Style Guide: Headings

Published February 10, 2020

By Megan Ross

Blogs

Examples

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5

Heading 6

Blogs Style Guide: Paragraph, Font Family, and Font Size

Published February 10, 2020

By Megan Ross

Blogs

Font Family and Size

This is “default”

This is “default georgia”

This is “large”

This is “large georgia”

This is “larger”

This is “larger georgia”

This is “largest”

This is “largest georgia”

This is “small”

This is “small georgia”

This is “smaller”

This is “smaller georgia”

Blogs Style Guide: Sub-Banner

Published February 10, 2020

By Megan Ross

Blogs

Example

This is the Cover Image.

Blogs Style Guide

Published January 7, 2020

By Megan Ross

Blogs

Our blogs style guide documents design standards for all Michigan Tech blogs. It also includes examples for all WordPress blocks that are available. Please note that emojis cannot be used anywhere within WordPress.

CMS Content Search

Published November 19, 2019

By Joel Vertin

Best Practices

Content managers may occasionally want to search for specific phrases within the content of their CMS website. To search your site for a specific phrase, follow these steps.

Card Snippet

Published September 5, 2019

By Megan Ross

Modern Campus CMS

This snippet creates a single card with text over an image or colored background that links to another page or website. The slide out button can be customized. The spacing around each card is controlled in the Boxed Sections snippet that the Card is inserted into.

Page or Site Redirects

Published July 19, 2019

By Joel Vertin

Redirects are important when webpage URLs change on your website. There are many reasons why this could happen:

your site’s root folder name may need to change because your department is going through a name change
you may change the name of a folder or subfolder
you may move a page, folder, or file
you may delete a page, folder, or file

When any of these actions occur, it is important that a proper redirect is put into place. This ensures that the old URL continues to work for any users who find it or have it saved.

Recommended Formatting of Hours

Published May 29, 2019

By Megan Ross

Best Practices

There are many instances when you need to display hours on your webpage—hours of operation, advisor walk-in hours, and learning center times to name a few. The following formatting recommendations and tips for displaying basic hours will make them easy to see and understand by both sighted users and anyone using a screen reader. Additional formatting information can be found in the University Editorial Guide.

Sidebar with Hours title and example hours. — Basic hours of operation differentiate by time of year.

Sidebar with Make an Appointment title and text and hours in the content. — Basic hours with additional text.