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Formatting blog articles

Cleanslate gives its users a relatively wide array of tools to best format and brand their articles, the trick is knowing what options are available and how to apply them. This tutorial will cover how to properly format a blog article and will link to helpful resources elsewhere. 

Basic formatting

Getting around in Cleanslate

Cleanslate has several video tutorials that explain how to use the content editor, the page manager, and the file manager... among other things.

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Configuring thumbnails and hero images

These topics have already been covered on the Creating a blog article page.

Photo cropping recommendations Configure thumbnails Configure hero images

Typography and styling basics

  1. Refer to WVU's core branding principles when making WVU branded materials for the web.
  2. In order to maintain proper heading hierarchy, only use header tags h2-h6 in ascending order. (h1 is already in the header by default)
  3. Make sure all paragraphs are wrapped in paragraph tags: <p>text goes here</p>
  4. Use HTML tags to declare different kinds of type content, use CSS classes to style typography and other aesthetic aspects