Other types of generic content
Intro component (for home pages only)
An intro is a generic content component which should only be used on the home page of a site. It includes a strapline containing the name of the site, a description of no more than 50 characters and an image.
What do I call it?
- Intro: name of site
Where should I save it?
- In the Generic Content, Intros folder
LTS style for Intro components
To create the main (large) heading, add your text to the main content area of the generic content component, using the Title field.
If you want to create a subheading, add your text to the main content area of the component, but within the Content field. To make the text display in the correct style, you should enclose the text within paragraph tags and make the text bold using 'strong' tags. You can see an example here of how the Intro component for the Inclusive Education website was created.
Quick Links component
A Quick Links component is a generic content component that pulls together a group of links without descriptions. It is used on the LTS home page and 'hub' pages to link to areas of the online service or on deeper pages to arrange lots of links together. It's also used on individual sites to display popular resources, for example.
How are they named?
- QL: description of the collection of links (Add site abbreviation if there are two with same name but with different links.)
Where should I save it?
In the Generic Content, Quick Links folder
Quote Box component
A quote box component is used to display quotations from text on a page or a caption beneath an image. It makes the text bigger and makes it sit under a photo. It is used on the right-hand side of page as the component template is an interactive one.
Images will be generally 150 by 150 though there may be cases where no image is used or a different size may be used.
How are they named?
- QB: The first few words that convey the quote and make it unique (Add the site abbreviation if there are two with same name - indicate if no image, or an image of a size other than 150 is used.)
Where should I save it?
- Alphabetically by Tridion Name In the Generic Content, Quote boxes folders.
Title component
A title component consists of a title only - it never includes any other text. It is normally used in the interactive column to define the start and end of a summary, or group of summaries.
How are they named?
- Title: title
Where should I save it?
- Alphabetically by Tridion Name In the Generic Content, Titles folder
A title component can also be used on the main part of a page. This is useful if you put, say, a series of links straight onto a page. You can then put the title component on the page as a heading or several headings - such as "Useful organisations", "News websites", etc.