Feature panels are made up of four distinct parts:

• Reference title – which is what is displayed in the back end of Contensis and the terms you’d search for to find the entry
• Title – which is displayed on the public-facing website
• Text – an optional area where you can write a short description of what’s in the feature panel
• Feature content – which is the main content that is displayed, for example links to other pages, video and images.

To create and edit a feature panel, editing the reference title, title and text is the same as with any other title and text areas of Contensis.

The 'Feature content' area is where the different types of content can be added by clicking on the green '+' button. It looks like this in the back end of Contensis:

The options for the Feature content area are all simple enough to use - it's a case of filling in the relevant fields. However, below are short explainers of each with images to show what they look like in the back end of Contensis and then on the front end of the website. 

Call out panel

This allows you to bring certain text to the fore. It will display a title, some copy (which should be kept short) and has the option of bullet points. You can link up to two other areas both within our site and externally using the CTA (call to action) options.

Feature card

Feature cards allow you to highlight other areas of the site or an external site and link out to them. It is formed of a title, area for text (which should be kept short) an image which must already be uploaded into the image library (see image guidance) and then where you want to link to using a search function of the existing entries within the website. You can create a new entry at this point if one doesn’t already exist.

Feature cards are displayed as follows within Contensis and, once published, on the live website. 

Gallery modal

This feature allows you to embed a gallery onto a page. You need to give the panel a relevant title and you can add some optional text to describe it. You will need a feature image which will be the main one displayed on a tile on the web page (recommend the first image of the gallery you want to include) which you will pick from the image gallery.

Finally, you can pick your gallery from the list of galleries already produced, or you can create a new one.

Below is what a Gallery modal looks like in Contensis and on the live website. 

Media embed modal

This allows you to embed media such as a video into the web feature content. You will need a relevant title, image and then the embed code which is simply pasted into the ‘Media iframe embed’ box. You can find out about embedding content here. 

Quote

A quote is a styled piece of text that displays something pertinent to the page. It requires the quote, the source of the quote (e.g. the person who said it) a relevant image and the individual’s role or job title. It’s possible to link to a relevant page or external site, though this is optional.

Infographic card

You can embed either a pre-made infographic, or create a new one using this feature. When creating a new entry, infographics should be uploaded as images. We won't go into that process here, but it's a straightforward upload. When you pick an infographic card, it looks like this in Contensis...

News article

This simply enables you to link to an existing news article entry, or create a new one. Where it's an existing article, simply hit the '+ Select a news article' button and select the relevant piece. For a guide on creating a new entry, see here.