Aldrich: Site footer
- Todd McGill
- Meredith Ehrenberg
The site footer (located at /_site/footer) contains the following components:
Back to top link
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
This link is auto-generated by the template. 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 Data Definition group to be displayed. |
No | A physical address will not be displayed. | N/A |
Address
Enter your physical address. Separate the street address (or building name) from city/state/ZIP using separate lines.
Phone and email
Optionally enter your phone number and email address in the respective fields.
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 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
You have the option of including links to your social media properties here.
Including social media links
Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
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 |
Each link is defined by platform and URL.
Platform
Select your desired social media platform from the dropdown.
URL
Enter the URL to your account on the selected platform.
Content columns
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
Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
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 |
Working with content groups
A column consists of one or more content groups…
…each of which can optionally include a heading.
Adding a heading to a content group
Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
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
Enter the text for the group heading in the Text Data Definition field.
Adding content to your column content groups
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.
Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
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 |
Links
Links are defined using the Text link pattern.
→ Details: Text link pattern
Text
Text in the footer is provided via WYSIWYG.
Image
Images are defined using the Image linkable pattern.
→ Details: Image linkable pattern
Legalese links
These links are automatically included at the bottom of the footer. Nothing for you to do here.