Alerts, avatars, images and video

Alerts

Four tones, each with a title, a body and an optional link. Two variants: with the link and without, because an alert that always has a call to action forces you to invent one.

They are dismissible in the HTML edition with a data attribute, and by state elsewhere.

Avatars

Five sizes, with three things worth knowing:

• The monogram fallback sits underneath the image, not beside it, so a missing photograph degrades to initials.
• Presence dots are positioned by size rather than a fixed offset, so the dot stays on the edge of the circle at every scale.
• Initials come from a shared helper, so "Jane Q. Doe" is the same two letters in every edition.

Images

Three responsive grids, one, two and three columns. Every image carries width and height so the box is reserved before the file lands, loading so what is below the fold is deferred, and sizes so the browser fetches the width it will actually paint.

The image page states something most template galleries hide: the supplied photographs are 252px wide, so in a full-width card they are being scaled up and will look soft. The fix is larger sources, not a layout change, and saying so is more useful than a page that looks perfect only at the size it was screenshotted.

Video

Four aspect ratios, with the embed reserved at its ratio before the iframe loads.