Demo – Adding Featured Content (articleimg & thumbnail)

In this video demonstration I walk you through the process of adding Featured Content to your website or blog. The Featured Content area, as shown in the video, is the centerpiece of your website where Images are scrolled through and content is pulled in from each featured post and displayed in a layer above the image. Visitors to your website immediately know that the content found in this area is “featured” and “important”. To get to these “featured posts” the visitor simply clicks on the image and it takes them directly to that post.

There are three things to remember when adding Featured Content to your website. The first thing is that in order for your content to show up in this center area, it must be in the “featured” category. There are two other elements that are required for the images to show up properly inside this centerpiece area, the “articleimg” or Article Image, this is the large image that immediately greets the visitor when they logon to your website. You will want to make sure to resize whatever image you use for your “articleimg” to make sure that it fits the particular design of your website. The last component is the “thumbnail”, this is a smaller image that is used alongside the listing of your post on the homepage of the website. The “thumbnail” also has a specific size that it needs to be so that it doesn’t break or mess up your layout.

Here’s the video demonstrating the addition of these two components, sorry for the low volume on the video…