The site footer contains the following components:
Back to top link
Breadcrumbs
Wordmark
Contact info
Social media links
Up to four optional content columns
“Legalese” links
Back to top link
This link is auto-generated by the templates. It scrolls the current page back to its top. Nothing for you to do here.
Breadcrumbs
Breadcrumbs are a useful wayfinding mechanism that informs users where they are in your site. The breadcrumbs here are auto-generated based on Title metadata values of the current page and the folders within which it is located.
Make sure to provide a title for all your content folders. Otherwise the breadcrumbs will not function correctly.
→ Details: Working with folders
Wordmark
The wordmark is auto-generated based on your site name, just like in the header.
→ Details: Site settings
Contact info
Identifying and providing a way to contact the site owner fulfills the requirement listed in the UCI Web Policy (B.2).
Indicating a site owner
If the site owner isn’t obvious given the site name, you can optionally indicate the owner here. For example, the Community & Government Relations site is operated by Strategic Communications & Public Affairs. The site name doesn’t convey that, so we declare that ownership explicitly here.
Displaying a physical address
Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
Yes | A physical address will be displayed along side other contact information. | Causes the Address group to be displayed. |
No | A physical address will not me displayed. | N/A |
Address
Enter your physical address. Separate the street address (or building name) from city/state/ZIP using separate lines.
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 groups
Phone and email
Optionally enter your phone number and email address in the respective fields.
Per UCI style, phone number segments are delimited with dashes (e.g., 949-824-6922).
→ More: UCI Style Guide
Including a site feedback link
Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
Yes | A site feedback link will be displayed in your footer. | Causes the Feedback link 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
You have the option of including links to your social media properties here.
Adding social media links
Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
Yes | Social media links will be displayed in the footer. | Causes the Social media group to display. |
No | Social media links will no be displayed. | N/A |
Each link is defined by platform and URL.
You can create as many social media links as you need.
→ Details: Proliferating Data Definition groups
Platform
Select your desired social media platform from the dropdown.
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URL
Enter the URL to your account on the selected platform.
Content columns
Legalese links
A linked copyright attribution and a link to a privacy notice are automatically included at the bottom of the footer. Nothing for you to do here.
These links fulfill requirements listed in the UCI Web Policy (B.10 and B.13).