With the rise of magazine-style laid out websites, creating teasers for your content has become a new art form.
The most plain version of this pattern is a thumbnail image accompanied with a header and a description. Some rise to the challenge and also links to related articles or lists recent content from the same category.
Get ideas on how to tease your content on your website’s front page by browsing through the new Content Teasers screenshot collection.
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Anders Toxboe builds websites with an outstanding team at Benjamin Interactive in Copenhagen, Denmark. He also founded UI-Patterns.com and a series of other projects.
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