Managing Your Site's Marquee

CHSSWeb websites have two design options for the marquee, a modern card-style layout and a traditional rotating horizontal layout. Marquee items are articles that have been designated with the type “special” in the editing tools. Anyone with editor privileges on a website can create and edit marquee content. If you need to change which marquee design your website is using, contact the CHSSWeb Team.

Before you start

Review the marquee guidelines here. These provide strategic guidance for how you should use your marquee and examples of how each marquee design option should be used.

Review the image dimensions required for the different marquee designs.

Adding an item to the card-style marquee

From the Dashboard:

  1. In the left navigation, click on "Articles".
  2. Located on the right, click the green button "Create New".
  3. In the "Basic Content" window, select the "Kind" and choose "Special".
  4. In the title field, enter the name of the person for this card
  5.  In the subtitle field, use the following patterns
    • For a student, enter their degree and program following this pattern: Ph.D. student in Sociology
    • For an alum, enter their degree and year of graduation following this pattern: MA Art History '13
    • For a faculty member, enter their faculty title and program following this pattern: Assistant Professor, Criminology Law and Society
  6. Add content to the main content field or use the URL Link field to link the card to other content, like a profile. Details for these options are the same for both marquee designs and can be found below.
  7. Look below the main content area for the "Attach Main Image" and click the button labeled "choose file".
  8. Select the image you wish to upload.
  9. Change the article to "Published" in the upper-right "Publishing Controls" box.
  10. If this item is solely for display in the marquee and you do not want it shown on your website's list of all news, check the "Hide from news section on all sites" box.
  11. If you would like to display this item on your website's list of all news, add a thumb nail image following the "Adding the item to the News List Page" directions below.
  12. Save.
  13. After saving, feature the "Special" article to your site's homepage:
    • Click on the "Connect" button on the right side, and in the "Connect with Sites" window, click the checkbox "Feature".
  14. Review on the homepage.

 The card-style marquee will display the three most recently published "special" articles featured to your homepage.

Adding an item to the rotating horizontal marquee 

From the Dashboard:

  1. In the left navigation, click on "Articles".
  2. Located on the right, click the green button "Create New".
  3. In the "Basic Content" window, select the "Kind" and choose "Special".
  4. In the title field, enter the title of your slide.
  5. The subtitle field is optional. If used, the text will appear smaller and in the shaded area at the bottom of the slide.
  6. Add content to the main content field or use the URL Link field to link the slide to other content, like a page. Details for these options are the same for both marquee designs and can be found below.
  7. Look below the main content area for the "Attach Main Image" and click the button labeled "choose file".
  8. Select the image you wish to upload.
  9. Change the article to "Published" in the upper-right "Publishing Controls" box.
  10. If this item is solely for display in the marquee and you do not want it shown on your website's list of all news, check the "Hide from news section on all sites" box.
  11. If you would like to display this item on your website's list of all news, add a thumb nail image following the "Adding the item to the News List Page" directions below.
  12. Save.
  13. After saving, feature the "Special" article to your site's homepage:
    • Click on the "Connect" button on the right side, and in the "Connect with Sites" window, click the checkbox "Feature".
  14. Review on the homepage.

The rotating horizontal marquee will display the three most recently published "special" articles featured to your homepage by default. If a single slide is used, the marquee will not rotate.

General Directions

Your Special article item must link somewhere or else it will be a static image. There are two options: Either link the article to an existing content by URL or add text to the main content area.

Linking your Special Article other content

  1. To link the article to an existing page, edit the special article and under the Main Content, you will see a text field titled "URL Link".
  2. Copy the url of the page you want your article linking to.
  3. Paste the url into the "URL Link" text field.
  4. Save. 

Adding text content

It is possible to open a standard article when clicking on a marquee item.

  1. From the Dashboard, find the article to edit.
  2. Scroll down to the Main Content text box.
  3. Enter the text to accompany the image in this field. If you cut and paste the text, leave the paste as text option enabled to strip out any underlying styles from the copied location.
  4. Save and check. On your homepage, the title of the image should link to the accompanying story which appears on a separate page.

Adding the item to the News List Page

You can include a marquee item in the full news list for your website.

  1. From the Dashboard, find the article to edit.
  2. Add the short news text in the field "Article excerpt".
  3. Then upload and attach a "Thumbnail Image".
  4. In the "Publishing Controls" window, make sure the box "Hide News Section ..." is not checked.
  5. Save and check. It should now appear on your news list page with the brief text linking to the longer story that accompanies the image.

Changing the items in the marquee

By default, both marquee designs display the three most recent published special articles.

To vary the order of images that appear in your marquee, you can manipulate the publication date. The image with the most recent publication date will be the default (first) image. Follow these steps to change the publication date of an article.

From the Dashboard:

  1. Click on "Articles" in the left navigation.
  2. Find the article whose publication date you want to change.
  3. On the article's editing page, find the Publication date.
  4. Click anywhere in the date and changed the date or time using the pop up box.
  5. Save.
  6. Check to verify that the marquee images appear in the order you want with your chosen default image appearing first.

To remove an item from the marquee, that article can be set to draft or un-featured from your homepage.