YaleSites comes with a bunch of features out-of-the-box that allow you to easily add content and display it on your site. But what happens when you want to display your content differently? What if you want the news listing to have a “featured” article, or display a grid of videos on your home page? Not to worry, you don’t have to start from scratch, all you need to do is adjust the existing Content Types and Views for the features that already exist to display the content as desired.
This tutorial assumes you know about or are willing to learn about:
First we’ll show you how to create a feature news story, much like the display on working.yale.edu and news.yale.edu. We want the most recent news story to display with a larger image, the title with a link to the full story, and some text that gives an intro to the story.