The news carousel displays the first 3 news story headlines, taken from the News page within your site and rotates through any additional headlines
The minimum number of news items is 3 for the carousel to display correctly
Image banners on news stories must be sized to 1600 x 767. Otherwise the thumbnail images generated for the news carousel will be distorted.
You can add a title for the carousel, which will be displayed above the news headlines
If you re-order the news stories on the News page, the carousel will automatically update its headlines in the next site publish
Image Guidance
You should have full permission for any image you intend to use on your website.
All images should be the correct dimensions and optimised for the web. For users that do not have access to Adobe Photoshop or a similar image editing resource, we would recommend the use of PIXLR, a free online image editing platform. This platform can be used to resize and optimise images.
You must use the correct naming convention for image filenames, as follows:
Use only lowercase letters (a to z), numerals (0-9) and hyphens (-);
Do not use spaces. Instead, use hyphens to separate words.
Do not use special characters (e.g., £, %, &, á) or underscores.
You are not required to add an Image Alt Text / Description if the image will be decorative only. Further information is available in the Text Alternatives for Images section of our Accessible Content Guidance.
Do not create images with embedded text. The image will be inaccessible and the text will not scale across mobile and desktop devices. This content type enables you to add a title onto an image in an accessible way.
Note
The section link must point to the page within your site called News
The carousel only displays content from your News page, which uses the DTP - News Story content type
DTP - News Story content type must have the 'Date' field completed to be picked up by the carousel
This is how your content type will look when it's filled in:
