Then elaborate here. In very few words, what is the most important thought you want to impart? That’s your headline: place it above. If you’re creating a page for a course or your faculty profile, it may be as simple as the course title or your name, respectively. In other cases it may be something more creative.
Once you have your headline, replace this text with further details about your subject. As with the headline, depending upon your subject matter it may be very straightforward or written in a more engaging manner. For the latter, please keep in mind BU’s branding voice, about which you can find more here.
***For instruction on how to use the landing page plugin, please visit TechWeb. The general recommendation for images is to upload the largest image you have available and allow WordPress to crop it down. Creative Services would not recommend anything below 500px wide. Please use your personal discretion when deciding if an image is appropriate for a section on the site.***
Promo boxes are hyperlinked containers with a title, description, image, and link. Their purpose is to triage users to desired content. Promo box areas 1 and 2 can show 0–8 boxes. You can use these areas to leverage content that you want your site visitor to see right away.
***Promo boxes look best with a photo but they're not required in regular promo spaces. If you would like to use a supplied fallback photo, you can search photo-fallback- in the media library and you will find a variety of different images treated with different colors.***
You may want to use this large promo area for content you want to feature even more prominently, or even just to break up space on the page. You can only have two large promo boxes on a page using BU Landing Pages.
***Large promo boxes require an image for them to appear. If you would like to use a supplied fallback photo, you can search photo-fallback- in the media library and you will find a variety of different images treated with different colors.***
This is an example of how the promo boxes look without images:
You can use this space if you want to display posts you have on your website or display posts using the external link plug-in (allows users to define a specific URL that a post should link to, internal or external) on the homepage or a landing page. Up to 8 news posts are shown if you choose "latest." If you manually curate posts shown, you can choose from 0 to 8.
(Sample Post) Eight months after receiving final approval from the Boston Public Health Commission to conduct research at Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4), Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) has begun work with its first Level-4 pathogen, the Ebola virus. “This is clearly an important step for the NEIDL,” says Ronald B. Corley, NEIDL director and a […]
(Sample Post) In a sign of the growing recognition of the threat of antibiotic resistance, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK government are joining CARB-X (Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator), a BU-based public-private partnership launched two years ago by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to give financial, […]
(Sample Post) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 7, 2018 CONTACT: Ty A. Furman, Managing Director, BU Arts Initiative – 617.358.0489, tyf@bu.edu BU GLOBAL MUSIC FESTIVAL AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY OCTOBER 5 & 6, 2018 (Boston, MA) - Boston University is pleased to announce the BU Global Music Festival to be held October 5th and 6th on the […]
(Sample Post) Civil rights icon John Lewis, a member of the US House of Representatives since 1987, will deliver the 145th Commencement address on Sunday, May 20, on Nickerson Field. BU President Robert A. Brown announced Lewis as the Commencement speaker at Thursday’s Class of 2018 Senior Breakfast at the George Sherman Union Metcalf Ballroom, where […]
(Sample Post) Ann McKee “may have saved my life,” former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland writes in TIME magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Her research into chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the progressive brain disease crippling many athletes and soldiers, persuaded Borland to abandon pro football after just one season. Joining McKee, a Boston University School […]
(Sample Post) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 31, 2017 through November 3, 2017 CONTACT: Sarah Collins, (617) 358-0489 or Sarahkc@bu.edu (Boston, MA)—We are pleased to announce that the Boston University Arts Initiative – Office of the Provost, Boston University Art Galleries, and the Boston University Dance Program will welcome Dahlia Nayar, Margaret Sunghe Paek, and Loren […]
(Sample Post) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Rachel Lapal, rlapal@bu.edu The merger of Boston University and Wheelock College will create a new school of education that will combine the doctoral programs and research capabilities of BU’s School of Education with the early childhood expertise of Wheelock’s School of Education, Child Life and Family Studies, while other Wheelock programs will be joined […]
(Sample Post) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 14, 2017 CONTACT: Rachel Lapal, rlapal@bu.edu Boston University has won a $20 million, five-year award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a multi-institution Engineering Research Center (ERC), with the goal of synthesizing personalized heart tissue for clinical use. The grant, which is renewable for a total of […]