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Upgrade your Header with animations and pattern kits

Newly released Apollo 2 features are header animations and pattern kits. These features will help set your site apart from others and while maintaining the same look and feel of other UF Health websites. Animations Animations are meant to be slow and should not be distracting. Two animation options are…

How to Build a Page

First create the page by clicking on “Pages” in the Dashboard Navigation Menu, then select the “Add New” option. This will create a new page for you. Next, add blocks to your page to display the information in the format you would like. Some blocks are restricted to certain…

Assign a Home Page

Your homepage is a page for your site that is the default front page visitors see upon initially visiting. In Apollo 2, you can set any page on your site to be the home page, and change that setting at any time! How to assign a page as the “Home”…

Footer

The UF Health global footer can be customized to include contact information (accompanied by a Google map), a background image, a small navigation menu, a “Make a Gift” button. This is customized through the “Customizer” feature. To open the Customizer and edit the UF Health footer: Go to the Dashboard for your…

Customizer

The Customizer is used to change settings for your site and what visitors see on the homepage. Settings in the Customizer include: Site Identity – Site title and taglineMenus – create and assign a custom menu as a utility navigation menu or the main navigation menu for the site.Homepage Settings…

Header Call to Action Button

The site header can support one “call to action” button that will appear to the left of the search bar when set. This button is in a prominent place and brightly colored to draw attention to a specific action you would like your site visitors to take. The settings…

Main Navigation (Automagic Menu)

The main navigation for your site is populated with pages and will automatically adjust to a format most appropriate to the hierarchy of the pages on your site. This menu can be created and customized through the Customizer, if desired. You main navigation will format the…

Search Bar

Apollo 2 features a new and improved site search capability. The search capability will show you results of your search as you type and bold the search terms in the results so you can easily see the search terms in context of where they are found. A new search…

Menus

Menus can be built and customized a few different ways on your website. Once you are comfortable building and customizing menus, you will find that you have a number of options when it comes to site navigation.   Creating a Custom Menu Custom menus are a way to…

Utility Menu

The Utility Menu is a custom menu which appears at the stop of the global footer and to the right of the site title. The Utility Menu can house a number of items, but it’s best to use as a short menu of links.