Web standards and guidelines

Generic content

What is an Article component?

How to define, name and store article components in our content management system.

What is a Summary component?

The different types of summary component and how to use them.

Article or Summary?

There can be confusion about whether a piece of text is an article or a summary component and here we provide a chart to help you decide.

Other types of Generic Content components

This area describes Quick links, Quote boxes, Titles and Intro components.

Archiving generic content

Information and best practice for archiving content in the content management system.

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Naming and storing generic content

Generic content is the most commonly used component type on LTS websites. Find out here how to name and store your generic content components.

Site abbreviations

What the site abbreviations are and how to use them.

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