The 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 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 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.
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
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 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.
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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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 |
You can create up to four columns here.
→ Detail: Proliferating Data Definition items
Working with content groups
A column consists of one or more content groups…
…each of which can optionally include a heading.
You can create as many content groups as you need.
→ Details: Proliferating Data Definition items
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
Only displayed if Add a heading is set to ‘Yes’
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 |
You can add multiple types of content to a column content group. For example, an image followed by text.
→ Details: Proliferating Data Definition items
Links
Displayed only when Type is set to ‘Links’
Links are defined using the Text link pattern.
→ Details: Text link pattern
You can add as many links as you need.
→ Details: Proliferating Data Definition items
Text
Displayed only when Type is set to ‘Text’
Text in the footer is provided via WYSIWYG.
The WYSIWYG toolbar here is configured for simple text formatting only. The footer is not an appropriate place for complicated text content.
Image
Displayed only when Type is set to ‘Image’
Images are defined using the Image linkable pattern.
→ Details: Image linkable pattern
Does your campus unit (or parent unit) have its own logo? This is a great place to display it!
Legalese links
These links 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).