What are article teasers? Teasers are snippets of an article that you can use to broaden the exposure of your articles. Think of these teasers like the cover stories in the newspaper. The rest or complete article is located somewhere inside the paper, while the first two paragraphs introduce the article to the reader. Teasers work the same way in EZWeb. This article will show you how to add new ones, delete old ones, and keep your site fresh.

First, let's take a look at a site that is using article teasers. Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary School. This site has three active teasers. The first comes from the article, "Creating A Slide Show". The other two stem from articles in the News Sharing program. If you are unfamiliar with News Sharing, I would invite you to read this News Sharing article here.

To demonstrate, lets open one of your articles, and we will show you how to quickly add a teaser to your home page. After opening an article in SiteBuilder, click Teaser on the left hand panel. Type in the content that you would like to have appear in the actual teaser. We have provided a convenient button that will automatically fill in the teaser for you based on the text in the Content section. The button is at the very top of the teaser section, and reads, "Automatically generate the teaser headline and paragraph based on the article headline and body."

Once you have the teaser the way you want it, you still need to define where the teaser should display in the section labeled, "Show this teaser on the following pages:" Additionally, you can add images to the teaser in the Images section. To add images to a teaser, click Images on the left, and check the box that says, "Display Teaser Image" in the Teaser Image & Content Preview section. Add your image, and Save.

Once you've mastered creating teasers, you will find that eventually you will want to remove the teasers without removing the entire article. All you have to do to remove a teaser is deselect the display areas in the "Show this teaser on the following pages:" section of the teaser. Once you have saved your changes, the article teasers will have been removed from the respective display areas.