Inside the publication template
This page shows how an FAS publication page would carry the new pieces: visible topics, sidenotes, a featured chart, an image grid and video, without changing how a publication reads today.
FAS publishes a lot: more than 5,600 publications on fas.org, from policy memos to the long-running blog. The publication page already reads well, so the job is to add tools without adding clutter.1
Notes like the one beside this paragraph are sidenotes, one of the optional items in the RFP. On a wide screen they sit in the margin next to the sentence they belong to, so a reader never has to jump to the end and back.2 On a phone they appear just below the paragraph.
A featured chart
Charts sit inside the text column but can run wider than it. Every chart carries a plain-language note and a table, so the numbers are readable by everyone.
Publication types with 20 or more items, from fas.org on 22 October 2026. The blog (4,715 items) is left out so the rest can be read.
Show the data as a table
| Category | Number of publications |
|---|---|
| Policy Memo | 528 |
| Report | 224 |
| Press release | 109 |
| Issue Brief | 38 |
| Article | 27 |
Images and video
An image grid and a video block, both editable by staff, both kept light.
Captions sit under each image. Alt text is required in the editor. Images load lazily as you scroll.
In production the video player loads only now, when you ask for it, from YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. Until then the page carries a still image and no video code at all. (This concept platform can't embed players, which is why you see this message.)