Style Guide

This is a sample caption

Heading 1

Heading 1 - Blue

Lead-In Paragraph: Write out your text then highlight it. In the text editor, click the Paragraph Format button and choose "lead paragraph."

Heading 2

Heading 2 - Blue

Normal Font: Bold text italicized text subscript superscript. This is the default style for text on your site. When you create a new text block and start typing, this is the default text that will appear on the front end of your site unless you choose an alternate style. You can choose styles by clicking on the Paragraph Format button in the text editor (bottom row, second dropdown in from the left, it will say "Normal.") From there, you can choose a heading type or you can choose from various other styles like Lead Paragraph (displayed above), bold, italicized, subscript, superscript, numbered and bulleted lists, or blockquotes, all of which are sampled on this page.

Navigate your cursor to the spot where you would like the quote to display. Click on the Block Quote button in the text editor. A new menu will appear above your work, prompting you to enter the quote and byline. Click ok to save. 

Taylor P, carbonhouse Client Services

Heading 3

Heading 3 - Blue

Bulleted and numbered lists can be created in any text block. Simply write out the list of items, highlight them and then click on the bulleted list icon or the numbered list icon in the text editor. The list will automatically add the numbers/bullets to each item.

Heading 4

Heading 4 - Blue

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  1. Numbered Item 1
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Buttons

Create new buttons within text areas. Navigate your cursor to the spot where you would like the button to display. Click on the Button button in the text editor. A new menu will appear above your work, prompting you to enter the text (button text) and the URL, and to choose to open in a new window if desired. Click ok to save. 

Button Button - Dark Blue Button - Light Blue Button - Orange

Adding Media

2021-4-15-Education-Sponsors-Promo-Widgets.jpgNavigate your cursor to the place where you would like to display the image. Click on the Add Media button and choose your image. Once it appears in the text block, double click on the image to pull up a menu of options. From here you can assign alt text, choose alignment, and include a caption. Click ok when finished. 

*carbonhouse recommends not adjusting the image size from this menu since most sites are responsive and therefore locking in the size can jeapordize it's responsiveness.


Use a horizontal line (as shown above and below this paragraph) to break up text on a page. Write out your text, place your cursor in the desired location of the horizontal line and click on the horizontal line icon in the text editor. 

A horizontal line will appear in Showtime to show you where you've placed it.


FAQs

FAQ lists are a great way to break up text within a page to make it more manageable for the reader. Click on the Add Content button and choose FAQs. Click Add New to start your FAQ list. Enter a title and use the free form description field for all of the information related to that title. That information can include descriptions or simply a link off to a page on the site that can provide the user with all of the information they need, which will avoid duplication of content on the site.

FAQ Style

Description information would go here. Use the text editor to style the content as needed. You can include links with the text to direct people elsewhere on the site. 

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FAQ style that uses a title that is really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really long and might wrap to two lines.

This is an example of an FAQ with a very long title. 

Two Column Style

If you have a long list of items, a two-column style may be more aesthetically pleasing. Write out your list, then highlight the entire text and click on the "div" button in the text editor. A new menu will pop up, in the field labeled "stylesheet class" type "two-column" (without the quotation marks) and it will automatically wrap the content into two columns.


Link Lists

If you have a list of items that you want to link, a link list is a far better alternative than simply writing the list out and linking within the text. Add the Link content item, click the Add New button. The Title field is where you place the word that you to display to represent your link, then enter the link in the URL field. A description field is optional. As shown below, bulleted and numbered lists are supported here as well as links within the text. Save.

Spotlight Lists

Spotlights are a fancy link list. They're a great way to incorporate images into the body of your text to make the page more interesting for the viewer.

There are multiple layout options for Spotlight Lists:

  • Wide (list view)
  • Grid 
  • Logos

You can switch between the different layouts by clicking on the Edit button on the spotlight list content item and changing the layout.

Spotlight - Wide

Spotlight with Image, Link, and Description

You can include bulleted and numbered lists within a spotlight and even a link within the text. In this format, the image, text, and more information button will be clickable.

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Spotlight with Image, Description, and NO Link

You don't have to include a link. If you don't, no button will appear.

Spotlight with description, link, and NO image

If you don't have an image, but still like the way the spotlight list looks, that's fine! Go ahead and create your spotlight without an image. In this case, just the title and more info button will be clickable. 

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  1. Numbered Item 1
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Spotlight - Grid (Square)

Grid Example #1

In this format, the image, text, and more information button will be clickable. Sample Link.

More Info

Grid Example #2

Sample Grid View 

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Grid Example #3

Sample Grid View 

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Spotlight - Logos

News

News can be brought back into any page based on their promotion type. To add news:

  1. Click on the Add Content button and choose "News." The News content item will appear at the bottom of page.
  2. Click on the Edit button and choose which promotion type of news you'd like to bring back onto the page.
  3. Save and publish.

If you want to create a new promotion type, put a ticket into the Help Desk and one of the Support representatives will set it up for you. 

The database of News items is managed under Website > News. 

Once you've set this up, the news items will automatically display on this page based on the display on date and time set on the Options tab of the news item.

Visitor Guide

You can bring back your list of Visitor Guide items onto any page based on their category. 

  1. Click on the Add Content button and choose "Visitor Guide." The content item will appear at the bottom of the page.
  2. Click on the Edit button to choose which category of visitor guide items you'd like to display on the page. 
  3. Save and publish.

If you want to create a new category type, put a ticket into the Help Desk, and one of the Support representatives will set it up for you. 

The database of Visitor Guide items is managed under Website > Visitor Guide. 

Once you've set this up, the concierge items will automatically display on this page when published in the Visitor Guide module. They will also automatically be removed from the page if they are turned off or deleted in the Visitor Guide module.

Event List

Events can be brought back into any page based on their promotion type. To add events: 

  1. Click on the Add Content button and choose "Events." The Events content item will appear at the bottom of the page.
  2. From there, click on the Edit button and choose which promotion type you'd like to bring back onto the page.
  3. Save and publish.

If you want to create a new promotion type, put a ticket into the Help Desk and one of the Support representatives will set it up for you. 

Once you've set this up, the events will automatically display on this page based on the display on date and time set on the Options tab of the event and automatically be removed from this page once the event is over.

Maps

Add a map onto any page. 

  1. Click on the Add Content button and choose "Map." The map content item will appear at the bottom of the page.
  2. The map will populate with the default Google map centered around your venue. 

Optional Features

  1. If you've elected to add on the Interactive Visitor Guide, click on the Map's edit button to change the layout from the default Google map to the Interactive Visitor Guide map. 
  2. If you have multiple venues included on your website, click on the Map's edit button to change the focal point to the appropriate venue.
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