Menus

Menus

Site Builders can move, edit, and delete menu items on Open Berkeley sites. Menus on Open Berkeley sites include the following:

collapse all expand all Main menu (primary navigation)

The main menu (also commonly referred to as "primary navigation") is under the Berkeley wordmark and site name, and above the main content of all pages. The general recommendation (from a usability perspective, and for optimal display) is to keep...

Other Theme Settings

The additional options available in Theme Settings are as follows. These options are available from the Site Builder Dashboard (the "Dashboard" link in the upper left corner of the screen), under Other Administration ("Theme Settings for Open Berkeley Brand"):

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Manage Main Menu

You can add and move content to the main menu (primary navigation). All menu items in the main menu need a "parent" (top-level) item. For the parent items in the main menu, the main menu itself is the "parent," and any additional items are considered "child pages" (sub-pages) of the parent items. Child pages will show up in a local (sidebar) menu from the parent item.

Main Menu Display

By default, the main menu will display as a simple drop-down. See Figure 1, below.

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Mega Menu

The "mega menu" option aligns with the Public Affairs branding guidelines. Photos added/uploaded to the Mega Menu may be cropped and scaled in order to fit the appropriate aspect ratio. For more information on this, please see Image Shapes and Sizes About the Mega Menu

By default, the menus in the Open Berkeley theme have a simple drop-down functionality (similar to the previous theme). The theme...

Move a Page from One Menu to Another

You can move a page from one menu to another. For example, you can move a page from the main menu to the secondary menu.

Screenshot that shows a highlighted menu item in the main menu with arrows highlighting the main and secondary menus

From the Dashboard (admin/dashboard), click Manage Links next to the menu you would like to move an item from (such as the Main menu)....

Re-Order and Manage Menu Items

Site builders have the ability to re-order menu items, as well as edit existing menu items and add new menu items.

On the Site Builder Dashboard, in the "Administer Menus" section, you can click on "Manage links" for a specific menu (e.g., "Main Menu").

You can add new items to a menu, re-arrange the order of your menu items (drag one item under another item to...

Edit Site Information

You can edit the name (title) of your site (the text in the banner region of the page, to the right of the Berkeley workmark), or update the email address used for your site if desired.

Open Berkeley sites do not send email; because we use CalNet authentication, there is no need for password-reset messages. The site email address is for our internal records. It is not displayed publicly on your site.

The email address used for your site must be a departmental email, not an individual email address. We may use it to contact your department in cases where our...

FAQ Categories

FAQ content items must be assigned to FAQ categories. Create your FAQ categories before you create FAQ content items. For instructions on how to create FAQ categories, see the Categories page. The FAQs will be separated by category on your FAQ page.

Limited WYSIWYG Toolbar

In regular Content pages and Text widgets, there is a "regular" (full) editing, a.k.a. WYSIWYG, toolbar. However, there are a few features in Open Berkeley that only allow a limited subset of tags.

News Types

Overview

News Types are optional when using News Items. If you choose to create News Types (see instructions on the Categories page), you can either display a single News Type under the "News" menu item, or you can filter by News Types in a widget area on any page (see Types of Widgets).

Once you have created News Types, they will show up as checkboxes that you can select from when creating a News item (you...