Basic website settings

To access the basic site settings, go to the dashboard and select Settings > Manage site information.

This information is intended for those who have the role of site administrator for the website. If you do not have the appropriate permissions, you will not be able to access the settings. 
Start by going to your dashboard and making the following selections: Settings > Manage Site Information > Website Settings.

Main title and subtitle 

Every website must have a main title. Therefore, the field marked "website title" is mandatory and is followed by a red asterisk (*).  The main title should help visitors know where they have landed. The subtitle can also help with this, but it is not mandatory.

Enter the main title, i.e. the name of your website, in the "website title" field. The main title could be the name of a department at a faculty, for example, or, as in our example image, we have chosen to name this website "Drupal quick guide".

Then enter a subtitle in the "sub title" field. Examples of subtitles could be the faculty to which the institution belongs, or, as in our case, a supplementary description of what you as a visitor can do when you visit our website. 

The home page is, as the name suggests, your website's "first page". Your visitors will usually encounter the home page first, and they will probably use it as a place to return to in order to orient themselves and navigate further on the website. To choose a home page, you first need to have created a landing page that you have designed in the layout tool. If you have not already done so, you will find instructions on how to create landing pages via the link below. 
 

Create a landing page 

If you have already created and designed a landing page that you want to use as your website's home page, do the following: 
 

1. Start typing the name you chose for your landing page when you created it in the active search field. One tip is to name it "home page" if you haven't already done so. 
    
2. Select your landing page from the options that appear by clicking on it.
   You have now selected which landing page to use as the start page for your website. 
    
3. Save your settings 
   Don't forget to save your settings, regardless of whether you change all settings or just specific parts. You can do this at the bottom of the page by clicking "Save".

Link to Lund University's main website or to the internal website Medarbetarwebben 

If you are not already on the "website settings" page to make the settings below, go to your dashboard and select the following: Settings > Manage Site Information > Website Settings. 

Tick the first box if you want to activate a visible link to Lund University's main website at the top left of your shortcut menu.  
If you have an English website, the link will instead go to Lund University's international main website. If your website is an internal website, the link will instead go to the Staff Web, and if it is an internal website in English, the link will instead go to Staff pages.

Enable display of selected top news 

Tick the second box if you want to be able to select an article editorially to highlight it a little extra in the news list. If you choose not to tick the box, you will not be able to select which article should appear first in the list; instead, the latest news will always be displayed first. 

Save your settings 

Don't forget to save your settings, regardless of whether you change all settings or just specific parts. You can do this at the bottom of the page by clicking "Save".

Once you have a menu structure in place that you have built using different types of pages, you can choose to add shortcuts to pages in the menu bar that is visible when your website is displayed on mobile screens. This can be useful if you want to highlight 1-3 pages that are particularly important and want to make it easier for your visitors to find them without having to search through the drop-down "hamburger menu". 

To activate and set up your shortcuts, do the following:

1. Go to the pages you want to create shortcuts to and copy their URLs. You will need these when you link to them in a later step.
    
2. Make the following selections in your dashboard Settings > Manage Site Information > Header Menu Settings.
    
3. Kryssa i rutan märkt "Enable elevated menu links, mobile/tablet".
    
4. Fill in the "Link title" fields with the link name you want the shortcut to have. For example, "accessibility" as in our image example.
    
5. Fill in the "URL" fields and paste the URL of the page you want the shortcut to go to.
    
6. Save by clicking the "Save configuration" button at the bottom of the page.

If you have a mirror website in another language, you can add a link to the other website. Make the following selections in your dashboard: Settings > Manage Site Information > Language Link.

In the top field labelled "URL to website", enter the web address of your second website.
In the bottom field labelled "Link title", enter what you want the link to say. Follow the recommendation by writing, for example, "English website" if the website is in English.

Don't forget to save your settings by clicking on the "Save configuration" button.

Under the Footer information menu option, select what you want to display in both information fields in the footer. On the far left is a logo, followed by Left Footer Information and Right Footer Information. Both have a field for the heading and one for the body text.

Go to Settings > Manage site information > Footer information.
Under left footer information, fill in the contact information for the business. In the title field, enter a suitable heading, such as "Contact Information," and in the body field, enter details such as address, telephone number, etc.
Under the right footer information, you should add a link to the website's accessibility statement in the body field. If you have not yet created an accessibility statement, you should do so first. A suitable heading to enter in the title field is "Shortcuts".

You can choose to add logos and links to five partners in your footer. Please note that Extra footer information is only displayed if Footer menus is set to "enabled".

1. Gå till Settings > Manage site information > Extra footer information.
    
2. Enter a heading in the "block title" field. Examples of headings could be "Partners" or "Network".
3. Click on "logotype 1" to fill in the fields for the first partner.
    
4. Fill in the "title" field with a description. This will serve as alt text for the image, so be sure to make it accessible.
    
5. Fill in the "URL" field with the website address you want visitors to be taken to when they click on the logo.
    
6. Fill in the "URL" field with the website address you want visitors to be taken to when they click on the logo.

Repeat the above steps for logos 2-5 if you have any. Click Save configuration to save.

If your business has social media channels, you can add links to them. There are ready-made fields and icons for the most common social media platforms.

Gå till Settings > Manage site information > Social media links.
Find the platform(s) your business has a channel on and fill in the fields. In the URL field, enter the full address of the channel. In the Title field, enter a descriptive title, such as "Lund University's official Instagram account". This title is not visible to visitors, but is read aloud when using a screen reader, so it is necessary for accessibility reasons.
Click Save configuration to save.

An important basic setting that should be made on all websites is to add descriptive text, known as a meta description, which will be displayed to visitors searching for the website in a search engine, such as Google. 

Here's how to add the website description that appears in search engines:

Open the website's home page in Edit mode
In the right-hand column, open the Meta tags tab > Basic tags
In the Description field, enter the text you want to be displayed alongside the website in search engines such as Google.
Press Save.