The “Featured Content” Content Block has been used for headings and features, and displays an image to the left or right of heading style text. Featured Content as a selection in the Content Blocks page editor: The dialog box for Featured Content: If your Featured Content block is used as the heading of your page, […]
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The “Image” Content Block is one of our most popular blocks, and allows for superimposing text over an image to use it as a link to more content. Image as a selection in the Content Blocks page editor: The dialog box for Image: There are multiple new blocks available for images: If your image content […]
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The slider content block has been used in several ways, and there are multiple improved options to choose from. Slider as a selection in the Content Blocks page editor: The dialog box for Slider: How are you using the slider block? The slider block has several common uses: Replacing a slider used as a full-page […]
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The Quote content block allowed for adding pull quotes in a page in a style that displayed the UMaine crest alongside the quote in a grey background box. Quote as a selection in the Content Blocks editor: The dialog box for Quote: Replace this block with the Info Box block Once added, the text area […]
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The “Separator” Content Block is one of our simplest blocks, and offers a boundary between other content blocks. Separator as a selection in the Content Blocks page editor: The dialog box for Separator: Replace this block with the “Spacer/divider” block Spacer/Divider block options By default the spacer will span the full width of the content […]
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While there is an automated directory to list the People content on your website, the “People List” Content Block offered the ability to put people in a specific order. To replace this functionality, we have created a People pattern. People List as a selection in the Content Blocks page editor: The dialog box for People […]
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Many websites use the “Explore Links” Content Block. This is the block that creates circles from images or icons, and displays text underneath that you then link to other destinations. Explore Links as a selection in the Content Blocks page editor: The dialog box for Explore Links: Replace this block with the Icons pattern “UM […]
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Our Digital teams are working with UMS:IT to publish several new patterns for our Aug. 19 website update. New pattern category: News and Calendar To replace our old Article List and Event List content blocks we have a new “Post Picker” feature that works using the Shortcode block. Shortcodes are text commands surrounded by [square […]
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Read answers to frequently asked questions about the Content Blocks removal project Unpublished Content Blocks pages removed In order to focus efforts on current published content, any unpublished web page using the Content Blocks feature that had not been updated in 12 months was deleted. While recently created draft pages using Content Blocks were retained, […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. In this month’s newsletter we focus on decisions that will inevitably come up as websites are reviewed to remove Content Blocks: what to do about old content that is not adequately accessible? […]
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