This is the Masthead. Another maybe more correct term is a lead, an opening or leading paragraph to the rest of the article.

— By Jeroen Bos

The author’s photo and caption should be right aligned, inserted at the start of the first paragraph (where the dropcap is) have a custom width of 190px and link to none.

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he first main paragraph of the article should have a dropcap. The rest of the article should not use dropcaps.

The following paragraphs will be in dummy text to create some content, but scroll down for more explanations.

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Links to other webpages should be inside understandable text. Do not use the URL as clickable text. So do not make links like this…
The Appyness Online (https://zeeko.ie/appynessonline/) platform is targeted at principals in primary schools. Instead do like this…
The Appyness Online platform is targeted at principals in primary schools

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To use headers choose Heading 1

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For sub headers choose Heading 2

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In case you want to emphasize text that is important to stick out, but isn’t a quote you can use to make the text bold and indent it.

Then you have a situation where you are quoting what somebody said. This should be set in italics and indented. An example is shown below.

Professor Dumbledore said:

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” 

In other cases you can just use the conventional way inside a paragraph as in, Professor Dumbledore said: “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”

Images elsewhere in the article can be right or left aligned. They should have a maximum width of 400 pixels

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Interested in reading more? – Check out this piece by Paul Fields, Director of Kilkenny Education Centre, on the effect of neo-liberal values on our school system; “Identifying School Values in a Value for Money Environment”.

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