Home Page Welcome Header 2.0

Overview

The home page welcome header is an informative section that sits at the top of an initiatives site home page. It consists of text, buttons and imagery and is responsive to small and large viewports.

 

 

Enablement

The latest welcome header comes standard on all newly create initiatives.

To toggle the new header for older initiatives, navigate to Site Setup > Site Tab > Home Page section > Welcome Header 2.0

• Ensure both "Display Home Page Welcome Header" and "Welcome Header 2.0" are selected.
  • Display Home Page Welcome Header - toggles the header ON and OFF on the site homepage.
  • Welcome Header 2.0 - when ON, replaces its predecessor with the updated header.

* Note that these options will not work for the Solve/Responsive homepage. *

Once enabled, previous header settings / data will port to your new header. This includes

• Headline
• Description
• Background
• Button color
• Button text

 

Administrator Controls

As an admin, you can edit the headers contents

• Header text (Headline, Description)
• Background image
• Button display
• Button text
• Button color

Edit Mode

To edit the headers contents by enabling "header edit mode". You can do this through 2 ways

1. Double clicking the header area
2. Widget setup mode > Hover over the header > click "Edit Welcome Message" button.

 

When your header updates are ready for prime time, hit the "Save" button (or simply click outside of the header).

To revert any changes, hit the "Cancel" button.

 

Header Text

When in header edit mode, you can adjust the title and description inline.

• Headline (or title) input has a 50 character max
• Description text has a 500 character max

Use the "adjust for readability" control to lighten or darken the image so text is legible.

 

*  Note that the header title and description do not change the initiative title/description. Those fields can be found in Initiative Setup> > Site tab > Information  *

 

Background Image

When in header edit mode, you can change the background graphics by clicking the "Change background" button. There are 3 methods to add a new background:

1. Brightidea Presets - Choose from a gallery of proven presets that will make your site look stunning!
2. Search Unsplash - We've teamed up with Unsplash to choose from their huge database of amazing imagery.
3. Upload your own - The above 2 didn't do it for you? Upload a custom image of your own. It's recommended to use a landscape image 1280x700 or larger.

Presets

 

Search Unsplash

* Note that the Unsplash tab is not supported for IE 11 or below. *

 

Upload your own

 

Buttons

Customize the header even more with advanced button controls.

• Button Display - Set button display settings in the ellipses dropdown
  • • "Submit" button will not display if Idea Submission is toggled OFF (button settings can still be edited by admins in edit mode)
      
      
      
• Button Text - Edit button text inline within the button. Button text has a max of 30 characters.
• Submit Button Color - Adjust the "Submit" button color using the color picker to the left of the button.
  
  
• Browse Button Color - Adjust the "Browse" button color using the color picker to the left of the button.
  
  

 

Subscribe Button

The subscribe button is no longer bundled within the header and now lives up in the site navigation. The option location for the subscribe button has been moved to Site Setup > Site > General Settings.

 

Conclusion

We hope you enjoy the new header. We're always looking to make our product better so we'd love your feedback! Please submit feature enhancement requests to our idea portal; Idea Space