Component
Drupal uses components, also known as paragraphs, to supplement basic pages and other content types with modular pieces of content. These allow you the ability to create flexible content for your website, making it easier to manage complex layouts and designs.
- Reusable components to be shared across multiple pieces of content and maintained in a centralized location.
- Provides a simple text editor to create content using paragraphs of text and inserting images and/or videos.
- Content is displayed in compact collapsible sections of content.
Useful for content like FAQs, definitions, policies, etc. - Provides a simple way to highlight quotes or excerpts of text from the page.
- Allows for articles to be highlighted in different ways to bring attention to them.
- Highlight student, staff, or faculty information in a simple and easy to read format.
- Highlight important figures using numerical values.
- Use icons to call out important information
- Use images to call out important information
- Ability to add a large image or video as a section on the page.
- Ability to add a gallery of images as a carousel, strict grid, or non-strict grid.
- Allows for content to be highlighted through the use of content or image slides users can navigate through.
- Highlight links in a unique way with or without a short description.
- Display a list of links in a unique manner with a title and short description above.
- Create various CTA layouts to highlight specific topics.
- Use cards with or without images to highlight links.
- Include reusable shared components from the Paragraph library on the page.
- Add external content like Google Docs, Tableau info graphics, or Campus Events widgets on your site.
- Ability to add a child page or jump links menu to the sidebars of a page. This aids the user in site navigation, making information flow better between pages.
- Display content in tabs for ease of display, used for a variety of uses.
- Ability to add Office information and hours in a simple and easy to read format.
- Ability to highlight and link to social media accounts
- Display pre-built views of content into your page. These could be staff directories, or listing of articles.
- Embed Drupal webforms into your page with an image or description.
- Ability to display Custom Blocks or prebuilt views based on content types.
- Allows for content to be placed in highlighted boxes to separate content.
- Similar to an infographic, this allows icons or images to be used to link to more information.
- Ability to create searchable lists which can be useful for an Organization Directory, Glossary, Social Media Lists, etc.
- Display images in a grid pattern. Great for using as a menu, infographic, or combination of these.