When it comes to sidebars, you have many options. However, there are a few rules we'd like you to follow when prioritzing your sidebar content. Please read the below and the approved examples in this page's sidebar.
Registration and other calls to action
If you're creating an event page, or a page about a specific program, prioritize a call to register at the top. You can see this as our first example in this page's sidebar. You might have other calls to action that should be prioritized. For example, a call to action to join or visit Engage, or sign up for a newsletter, should go at the top. If your page has a call to action, that should be your number one content in the sidebar.
Your call to action will always go in the Button Content section. When you put a link in this section and style it with Button Link style, the button will be green, our default color for a call to action. In any other section, the button will be blue.
Reports
Landscape images should have a max width of 400px.
For any pages or articles about reports, a link to download the report is your first priority. You can see this example in the second slot on the right sidebar. Notice the button to download is blue. We'd like that to be the color of these buttons, so be sure to skip the Button Content section, and use the Rail Content 1 section for this.
Don't worry, the Button Content section will fold up, and won't leave any annoying extra space on your page when left blank. Include the PDF notation.
House ads
Up next are house ads. If you don't have a call to action or report to place at the top, consider a house ad. You can see an example of our HENA house ad on the right, above "More on XX Topic." These are kept in the house ads folder in our image library. Every house ad must be linked appropriately—it cannot simply be a stand-alone picture. Other than HENA, we recommend house ads for Engage, Annual Meeting, or REHE. I'm sure we'll have more along the way.
Related content
More on XX Topic
These sections are simply a list of links. These links will be any pdfs or pages that are important to the story. You won't always have these, but it's good to show them off in the sidebar when you do. Change the word "Topic" in the heading to the actual topic of the content. Include the PDF notation.
In the News
In the News features links to external sources on the same topic. Again, you won't always want to aggregate these, but it's a good option to consider when you're talking about a particularly important topic.
More formatting options
This site still has a maroon box option, which you can find in the ACE Web Parts menu. We also have a white box option as well, for those who might want to keep the content separate, but not too different from the rest. You can find those under ACE web parts as Maroon Notepad Tile and White Notepad Tile. They act just like a standard content section. The only difference is, the title you put in the web part settings is what will render at the top. You can also opt to select "none" as your chrome type, and that title will disappear.