Every Yale website on our platform starts with the same blocks. What teams build with them is different each time. Community Spotlight tells the story of Yale sites built on YaleSites, in the words of the people who built them.
Each story shows the site, the blocks and features the team used, and a tip you can try on your own site.
Use this table to find a story that matches what you want to do.
| If you want to… | Read about |
|---|---|
| Put your most important action at the top of your homepage | Yale-United Way Campaign, Canvas @ Yale |
| Organize a large site with many subpages | Enterprise Monitoring, Student Accessibility Services |
| Welcome visitors with video and strong images | Yale Visitor Center, Yale West Campus, Yale Institute of Sacred Music |
| Give your site its own look inside the Yale brand | Indigenous Leaders at Yale |
| Show research, labs, and people with news feeds | Yale Chemistry Department, Yale West Campus |
| Make accessibility part of how you build | Student Accessibility Services |
| Build a site with little web experience | Campus Health |
| Plan a rebuild with a content audit and user testing | Yale Chemistry Department |
Most of these stories feature a small set of blocks and settings. Each of these blocks has a user guide page: Action Banner, Grand Hero, Custom Cards, Quick Links, Spotlight Landscape, and View block. For menus, read Building Your Menu.
The Building with Blocks class helped me remove the training wheels and experiment with the templates. This is where the magic happened!
Lisa Kimmel, Director of Wellness and Education, Campus Health
Discover how Yale’s Chemistry Department transformed its site into a user-centered hub with YaleSites, showcasing research, labs, and community
For the first spotlight of 2025, we’re featuring the new Yale West Campus site, which showcases their research, events, and services.
Discover how the Yale Institute of Sacred Music collaborated with YaleSites to build a dynamic, visually engaging website.
Discover how the YaleSites platform enabled the Poorvu Center to create a clear, navigable website for all Canvas-related information.
Explore how YaleSites simplified crafting a website that looks great while ensuring equal access to information for all.
Learn how YaleSites empowered Campus Health to showcase its benefits in a content-rich, highly functional website.
Discover how the Indigenous Leaders at Yale used Theme Settings and the Mega Footer to give their site a distinct visual identity.
Learn how Enterprise Monitoring used the Mega Menu to organize a robust collection of subpages, helping visitors navigate with ease.
This week, we’re featuring the newly launched Yale Visitor Center site, which helps visitors plan the perfect trip to campus and its surroundings.
Our new series highlights our community of creators, dives into platform features, and provides tips and tricks for making the most of your YaleSite.
Want to see how departments add new features to the platform itself? Read about Building YaleSites Together.
The YaleSites team is here to support your digital experience efforts:
