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Using Headings

Headings are a great way to break up content on a page, which makes the page content more "ingestable" for your readers. Anytime you have more than a couple paragraphs on a page, it's probably a good idea to use headings. Here's an example of headings and their respective sizes. Keep in mind, your designer may have styled them a bit differently, but generally speaking, a Heading 1 should be the largest and a Heading 6 should be the smallest or heading of least significance.

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5
Heading 6

To create a heading:

  1. First type some text into the text editor.
  2. Then choose the pull down menu located just to the left of the Edit CSS Styles icon (css styles icon). It will look like this: paragraph menu but it may not say Paragraph.
  3. After clicking on the pull down menu, you will be presented with a list of options:
    • Format
    • Paragraph
    • Headings 1-6
    • Div
    • Blockquote
    • Code
    • Preformatted
    • Address

Choose a Heading from this menu, according to the importance of that particular heading on the page. Remember, Heading 1 is used for the most important heading, often the page title. Heading 2 and so on should be used for lesser important headings.