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Welcome to the Stanford Sites 4.0 User Guide. 

Local Footer Modifications

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The local footer is an important part of every page on your site and contains information and links that help with overall usability. 

The local footer initially will contain default content, which you will replace with your own information prior to launching your site. 

Local Footer Example

How to edit the local footer

You can edit the footer content by the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Configuration > System > Local Footer.
  2. You will be redirected to the footer configuration page:
    Screenshot illustrating how to add Local Footer Modifications
  3. Remove any unnecessary content and edit the required fields to add your own information.

  4. Save.

The action and social links section contain multiple fields for you to add relative links.

An action link will contain the call to action arrow styling:

Footer Action Link

Social media links will display their corresponding icon based off the user’s Link text input

Social Links editing page:

Screenshot illustrating how to add Local Footer Modifications

Social Links within the footer:

Site Vistor Footer Social Links View

The Primary and Secondary Links have their own individual section for you to add links relative to your site. Each corresponding section has an input for a title followed by multiple links.

Sign Up Form

The Sign Up Form section allows you to add an outside sign up form (e.g. through Mailchimp, Google Forms, etc.) to your local footer. Once users have entered their e-mail address and clicked the submit button, they will be redirected to the related form.

The Sign Up Form section contains multiple fields.

  • In Signup Form Intro, enter any intro text, which will be displayed in the local footer.
  • In Form Action URL, enter the relevant external form URL copied from Google Forms, Mailchimp, etc.
  • In Form Method, select either GET or POST. For most use cases, GET will be the correct selection. If you are having issues accessing the form, try switching the form method.
  • In Signup Button Text, enter your desired button text.

Example local footer with Sign Up Form added:

Example Local Footer with Sign Up Form

Login Button

You can modify the Login Button text within the login button section. The button name is set to Web login by default.

Local Lockup

The local lockup section allows you to customize your site's signature logo lockup, which is a combination of a wordmark/logo and the name of an individual school, official department, administrative unit, institute, center or lab.

  • Note: The lockup logo field will not accept logos over 4 MB.

The default lockup contains the Stanford wordmark and your site name, all on one line. For the example below, the site name was set to be "University".

Default footer lockup

Site managers also have the ability to customize their lockup configuration by selecting from a list of lockup options, which follow a pattern similar to what is shown in the image below.

lockup-example

For a full list of lockup options and information on configuring your site's local footer lockup, see Managing Department Branding and Logo Lockup Options.

Content Blocks

The content blocks section provides the ability to add text within content blocks in the local footer.

There are four content blocks available (First, Second, Third and Fourth ).

Screenshot illustrating how to add Local Footer Modifications

After adding text to a content block and saving, it will be displayed according to that content block's location in the local footer (left, center, or right). The First Content Block is located to the left, the Second Content Block is located in the center left, the Third Content Block is located in the center right, and the Fourth Content Block is located to the right.

Tips

If you don't want a link to display, you'll need to remove all content from the URL and link text fields. 

Related Topics

Main Navigation

Your main navigation (menu) one way people will navigate your site.