Components

Think of components as the building blocks of web pages in Sitecore. Each is a custom-built solution for various kinds of content, designed to give Connecticut residents the best user experience in the country. They're tested for ease-of-use, web accessibility standards, and to work equally well in desktop, tablet, and mobile environments.

Story components

Lead Story component 

Top page element designed to get readers to scroll further down the page

Story Group component 

A grouping or "blade" of a lead story with at least three sub-stories rendered in smaller areas

Feature Content Card component 

Similar to the Lead Story component, but presented in rows of three or four cards

List components

Link List component 

Our visually pleasing way of displaying links in organized categories

Link List Group component 

Collecting and organizing related link lists into logical thematic groupings

Accordion component 

Expandable boxes of content that would otherwise make the page excessively long or difficult to read

Tile components

Tile Card component 

An alternative way to display linked content in boxes with headline, teaser, and optional icon

Tile Card List component 

Groups of tile cards organized by categories, presented in a stacked grid of rows

General components

Multistep component 

Grouping of a single topic and description with multiple related links

Image component 

Inform the user while adding visual interest to text-heavy pages

Video component 

Embedded video from a streaming sources such as YouTube or Vimeo

Non-components

Code snippets 

Custom code solutions that have been developed and thoroughly tested by the UX/UI Design Dept.