Web standards and guidelines

Naming and storing summary components

Article summaries

This summary links to a block of content (on an LTS web page) which provides information on a given subject.

External websites summaries

This type of component contains summary text with a link to an external website.

Glossary summaries

If you're linking to a glossary on an LTS website, use this summary component type.

LTS sites and sections summaries

Use this component type to link to the index page of a whole site or section.

'Pages of images' summaries

Are you creating a link to a collection of LTS illustrations? This is the summary component for you.

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What is a summary component?

A summary component contains brief text (and sometimes an image) with a link to an LTS page or external website. It may be used in the main page area or the interactive column.

They are stored within a general 'Summaries' folder containing separate sub-folders for the five types of summary component.