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The site footer (located at /_site/footer) contains the following components:
Back to top link
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Changes made to the site footer can be made live by simply publishing the footer asset. No need to republish your entire site. |
Back to top link
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This link is auto-generated by the templatestemplate. It scrolls the current page back to its top. Nothing for you to do here.
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Make sure to provide a title for all your content folders. Otherwise the breadcrumbs will not function correctly. → Details: Working with folders |
Wordmark
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The wordmark is auto-generated based on your site name, just like in the header.
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Displaying a physical address
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Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
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Yes | A physical address will be displayed along side other contact information. | Causes the Address Data Definition group to be displayed. |
No | A physical address will not |
be displayed. | N/A |
Address
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Enter your physical address. Separate the street address (or building name) from city/state/ZIP using separate lines.
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You can create as many address lines as you need. Creating new Data Definition fields is essentially the same as with groups. → Detail: Proliferating Data Definition items |
Phone and email
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Optionally enter your phone number and email address in the respective fields.
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Including a site feedback link
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Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
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Yes | A site feedback link will be displayed in your footer. | Causes the Feedback link Data Definition group to display. |
No | A site feedback link will not be displayed. | N/A |
The feedback link is defined using the Text link pattern.
→ Details: Text link pattern
Social media
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You have the option of including links to your social media properties here.
Including social media links
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Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
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Yes | Social media links will be displayed in the footer. | Causes the Social media Data Definition group to display. |
No | Social media links will |
not be displayed. | N/A |
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Each link is defined by platform and URL.
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You can create as many social media links as you need. → Details: Proliferating Data Definition items |
Platform
Select your desired social media platform from the dropdown.
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You can define up to four additional columns in the footer. The rightmost column will occupy all remaining horizontal space in the footer. Every column to the left of the rightmost will occupy a fixed amount of horizontal space.
Adding footer columns
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Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
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Yes | Content columns will be added to the footer. | Causes the Column Data Definition group to display. |
No | Content columns will not be added to the footer. | N/A |
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You can create up to four columns here. → Detail: Proliferating Data Definition items |
Working with content groups
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You can create as many content groups as you need. → Details: Proliferating Data Definition items |
Adding a heading to a content group
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Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
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Yes | A heading will be added above the content group. | Causes the Heading Data Definition group to display. |
No | A heading will not be added above the content group. | N/A |
Heading > Text
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Only displayed if Add a heading is set to ‘Yes’ |
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Select the type of content you want to add from the Type Data Definition field. There are three types to choose from: links, text, and image.
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Links | A list of links will be added to the column content group. | Causes the Link Data Definition group to display, |
Text | A block of text will be added to the column content group. | Causes the Text Data Definition field to display |
Image | An image will be added to the column content group. | Causes the Image Data Definition group to display |
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You can add multiple types of content to a column content group. For example, an image follewed followed by text. → Details: Proliferating Data Definition items |
Links
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Displayed only when Type is set to ‘Links’ |
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Links are defined using the Text link pattern.
→ Details: Text link pattern
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You can add as many links as you need. → Details: Proliferating Data Definition items |
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Does your campus unit (or parent unit) have its own logo? This is a great place to display it! |
Legalese links
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A These links are automatically included at the bottom of the footer. Nothing for you to do here.
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