Cascade Design Library

Western's Cascade CMS Design Library offers a curated set of pre-designed components to ensure brand consistency and a seamless user experience across Western's websites. These components enable the creation of responsive and dynamic layouts—without any coding.

Explore the available components and best practices for each element below.

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Accordion

Accordions are a flexible component that organize and hide information until needed by the user.

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Buttons, CTA Links & Headings

How to add buttons, cta links and headings.

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Cards

A card component displays concise, organized content in an appealing, easily digestible format.

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Columns

The column component divides content into flexible, responsive sections for easy layout customizations.

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CSS Utility Classes

Rows have default padding. Columns and modules have default margins. The classes listed below will remove all padding or margins…

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CTA Block

The CTA Block is a highly structured component designed to help users focus on key calls to action.

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Easy Columns 

A highly structured component, primarily used for building link hubs with informational context or as informational columns with visuals attached.

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Factoids

Factoids is a component designed to highlight key facts and relevant information on a page.

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Featured Banner

The Featured Banner component is a structured component ideal for promoting key initiatives within a prominent visual and call to action on the homepage.

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Featured Cards

The featured card component is a structured element designed to serve as a link hub emphasizing three crucial ideas or call to actions. The component requires a set of three cards with an image and title for each.

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Featured Content

The Featured Content component is a structured full width component design which allows for three colour options: Western Purple, Deep Focus, and Grey. Images can be placed to the left or right, with the option of adding a title, subtitle, description, and up to two CTA buttons.

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Featured Highlight

The Featured Highlight component is used to highlight key information with optional call-to-action buttons. For optimal visual balance, ensure the selected image size complements the content length.

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Full-Width Banner

The Experience component is a full-width, visually distinctive element designed to highlight impactful calls to action. It features a signature purple frosted background, making it ideal for drawing attention to key messaging or promotions.

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Hero Banners

Hero banners create a strong visual impact with bold imagery and caption, reinforcing the theme of its content. Hero banners can be used on all page types, with separate mobile specific images ensuring an optimized responsive experience.

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Images

Options for images

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Misc

Various content display options

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News

The News component is built to dynamically feed in either news articles (posts) created within the unit site.

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Pages

The Pages component is built to display pages created within the unit site.

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Staff Listing

The staff listing is a structured component displaying a list of team members with optional contact information.

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Tabs

The Tabs component organizes content into separate, clickable sections, allowing users to switch between different views without reloading the page.

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Testimonial Block

The Testimonial Block is a three-column component designed to showcase photos and quotes, highlighting community profiles. Call-to-action buttons can link to a secondary page or trigger a YouTube video in a modal pop-up module.

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Titles

Page templates allow for two types of titles to be used – Basic Title and Default Title.

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Video

The video component enables easy embedding of videos from YouTube or hosted media files. Adding captions or subtitles to media files is important ensure videos are accessible to a broader audience and meets accessibility guidelines.