Aldrich: Site footer

site footer

The site footer (located at /_site/footer) contains the following components:

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

back to top link appearance

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

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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

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

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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

You have the option of including links to your social media properties here.

Including social media links

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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.

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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

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.

Legalese links

These links are automatically included at the bottom of the footer. Nothing for you to do here.