Footers are the very bottom of any webpage that displays information (usually a logo or contact information). In BYU's case, we display the university name, location, and copyright notice in all of our footers (you can view the bottom of this page as an example). Footers can also have more information in them as well that may be needed across all pages of the site. The footer on this page has contact information as part of it, as well as the BYU logo info.
Creating a Footer
Before creating your own footer, please keep in mind that the BYU logo needs to be at the bottom of all web pages along with the copyright. This tutorial will explain the steps in adding this.
The footer you create will also be shared across all pages of your site.
In the search bar, on the bottom left under Create, in the dropdown menu, find Page Footer and create a new one.
Adding the BYU Standard Footer
In both sections where it asks for the Desktop Logo and Mobile Logo you must use the standard BYU logo. This logo will not show up right away when clicking on the search button. In order for the logo to show up do the following steps:
- Click on the search icon next to either the Desktop or Mobile Logo.
- Under MISC Filters in the bottom left, your website will be checked mark. Find your website in the list and click it to uncheck mark it. It should then say "All Sites" like the photo to the right.
- Once the new images load, use the one titled "Brigham Young University Wordmark".
- After those are both loaded for the Logos, scroll down to the Desktop and Mobile Copyright/Disclaimer.
- Both of these must be filled in with"Provo, UT 84602, USA | © $YYYY All rights reserved." (without apostrophes). The "$YYYY" is a special code that will automatically update the site with the current year (see the screenshot below).
- Please do this for both Desktop and Mobile.
Adding More Content
After adding the BYU standard logo and copyright notice in the footer, you may add additional content as well. This is done simply by how you would add content to a normal page. Using the Add Content tab you can add content as needed. If for whatever reason, the footer content is not aligning correctly or giving you problems view this page to see if that will help.
Once you are done, publish the footer.
Setting the Footer
Once the actual footer is created it won't display until we set it as the default footer across all pages on our site.
1. In the top right of Brightspot, click on the "hamburger" menu to access the Admin settings.
2. Select the Sites and Settings option.
3. Choose Page Defaults in the new screen that comes up.
4. Towards the bottom there will be a tab called Footer, open it up.
5. In footer, make sure that the first drop-down menu is set to Select. Afterwhich, you may click on the search icon and find and select the footer that was just created.
6. Click Save at the bottom of the screen to save your new footer!
