Adding Widgets

Widgets are design components that show the dynamic content you’re creating with LiveWhale — news stories, events, profiles, announcements, etc. — on the pages of your website.

There’s a wide variety of widgets available for use, that can be employed to meet your particular content presentation needs.

To add a widget to a page, edit the page and click “Insert” > “Widget” where you’d like to place it.

Most widgets will only show content in your group by default (aka, content you’ve created for your part of the Sweet Briar site, or that’s been shared to you by another group). 

Announcements

The Latest Announcement widget displays a blurb of type Announcement in your group. Every page in your group where you add this widget, displays the same announcement, so it’s a great way to include a message on all your pages. To show/hide/change the announcement everywhere, just update the blurb.

  • Sample Announcement

    Here’s the content of my announcement.

News story widgets

Story widgets are classified as “News” widgets when inserting a widget. Here are the four widgets available to all groups:

  • Stories: One Starred Story, My Group
    A large feature that shows one of your stories with a star added. (You can add stars to stories from your Manage Stories page or when editing a story.) By default it will display the most recent story (or the one you “balloon” to the top of your list). If you want to place a specific story on a page, add a tag to it on the backend, then when placing the widget, add the tag in the Customize Widget section, top left.

    Note: If your story’s main image has its subject on the right side of the photo, it may be obscured by the caption; add the tag “Photo subject on right” to your story, and the caption will be moved to the left.
    Screenshot of Stories: One Starred Story, My Group widget result Screenshot of Stories: One Starred Story, My Group widget result
  • Stories: Story list
    A list of all your group’s stories, showing 3 at a time with pagination links to show additional stories.
    Screenshot of Stories: Story List widget results Screenshot of Stories: Story List widget results
  • Stories: Top 3 Stories
    The same as above, but limited to 3 without pagination. 

  • Stories: 2 items, card layout
    Two items in a side by side card layout.
    Screenshot of Stories: 2 items, card layout widget results Screenshot of Stories: 2 items, card layout widget results

Event widgets

Outside of the main Sweet Briar event calendar, one widget (“Events List”) is used for most cases where events are shown on webpages. To request a widget for a specific event type, contact the Sweet Briar web team.

Faculty profile widgets

A faculty profile listing is included automatically below the side navigation on every academic major page. To include a faculty listing elsewhere, use the Faculty and staff by group widget.

Screenshot of Faculty and staff by group widget results Screenshot of Faculty and staff by group widget results

Staff profile widgets

The Staff List widget shows a list of the staff in your group. 

Screenshot of Staff List widget results Screenshot of Staff List widget results

 

Featured Course

You can highlight a course or courses by adding the information to a Courses profile on the backend and star it. Place the widget to show a single starred course in your group. If there are multiple starred courses, this widget displays one at random. 

 

“By the Numbers” (Statistics) Slider

The Statistics Slider Basic Page Width widget displays blurbs of type “Statistics Slider” in your group.

By the Numbers

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One of only two women’s colleges in the U.S. to offer an ABET-accredited engineering degree program

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Sweet Briar College’s 2,840-acre campus is located in the beautiful foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.