diff --git a/layouts/partials/featured.html b/layouts/partials/featured.html
index 7947851..2a94f52 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/featured.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/featured.html
@@ -1,15 +1,22 @@
 {{ $dateFormat := default "Mon Jan 2, 2006" (index .Site.Params "date_format") }}
+{{/* get three random posts: 1 for large feature, 2 for small features */}}
+{{ range $index, $element := first 3 (where .Site.RegularPages "Section" "in" .Site.Params.mainSections) | shuffle }}
 
+{{ if eq $index 0 }}
   <div class="p-4 p-md-5 mb-4 text-white rounded bg-dark">
     <div class="col-md-6 px-0">
-      <h1 class="display-4 font-italic">Title of a longer featured blog post</h1>
-      <p class="lead my-3">Multiple lines of text that form the lede, informing new readers quickly and efficiently about what’s most interesting in this post’s contents.</p>
-      <p class="lead mb-0"><a href="#" class="text-white fw-bold">Continue reading...</a></p>
+      <h1 class="display-4 font-italic">{{ .Title }}</h1>
+      <p class="lead my-3">{{ substr .Description 0 110 }}</p>
+      <p class="lead mb-0"><a href="{{ .Permalink }}" class="text-white fw-bold">Continue reading...</a></p>
     </div>
   </div>
+{{ end }}
 
+{{ if eq $index 1 }}
 <div class="row mb-2">
-{{ range first 2 (where .Site.RegularPages "Section" "in" .Site.Params.mainSections) | shuffle }}
+{{ end }}
+
+{{ if or (eq $index 1) (eq $index 2)  }}
   <div class="col-md-6">
     <div class="row g-0 border rounded overflow-hidden flex-md-row mb-4 shadow-sm h-md-300 position-relative">
       <div class="col p-4 d-flex flex-column position-static">
@@ -40,6 +47,7 @@
     </div>
   </div>
 {{ end }}
+{{ end }}
 </div>
 
 {{- /* vim: set ts=2 sw=2 et: */}}