Photo credit or caption should be right aligned for header image, medium grey, and end with a period.
IMAGE CREDIT: First Last/Organization name or acronym

News Template: Title Should Go Here

By Suzanne Pelletier, Executive Director of Rainforest Foundation US

(Exclude byline unless 1. “authored” by Suzanne or a Program Director/Manager, 2. authored by a guest writer, 3. authored by an intern whose exposure/development we want to support, 4. co-authored by RFUS and another org)

  • Three summary bullets
  • At the top of the article
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  • Header image should be 50% height of the page (found in the Layout column of “Edit Section”).
  • Header image can be set to any position except for “custom” (position is found in the Style column) because “custom” does not resize well when you adjust the size of the webpage window 

Headers

  • Article titles use Heading 1 format
  • All sub-headers use Heading 2 or Heading 3 formats (do not write headings in all caps)

Links

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  • Links that navigate to other websites should open in a new tab.
  • When adding a standalone sentence that links to another page, the sentence should be: preceded and followed by a paragraph space, bold, and end in a period. Here’s an example:

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Captions for galleries should be right aligned, medium grey, and end with a period. Credits are formatted as such, IMAGE CREDIT: First Last/Organization name or acronym

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Captions for images within the body text should be left aligned, medium grey, and end with a period. Credits are formatted as such, IMAGE CREDIT: First Last/Organization name or acronym

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Click on the thumbnail to view the reportIf you want to keep an image tighter with the text, add the “default” class to the image itself.

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If you want to keep an image with a caption  tighter with the text, add the “default” class to the text element, instead. Note: If there are other images on the page where you don’t want this effect, you’ll have to make this a separate text element.

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Stories

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Didier Devers
Chief of Party – USAID Guatemala
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Didier has been coordinating the USAID-funded B’atz project since joining Rainforest Foundation US in April 2022. He holds a Master’s in Applied Anthropology and a Bachelor’s in Geography. Before joining the organization, Didier worked for 12 years in Central and South America on issues of transparency, legality, governance, and managing stakeholders’ processes in the environmental sector. Prior to that he worked on similar issues in Central Africa. He speaks French, Spanish, and English, and is based in Guatemala.