Atlas Theme Setup Guide

If you've chosen atlas as your public site theme, here are some quick start tips to getting everything set up!

 

The Front Page

The front page of your site is a very specific page - it contains your slider images (more on sliders at the bottom of the page) and it cannot be directly edited. Content on the front page is controlled by blocks. You can use pre-set blocks to add content automatically, or create your own custom blocks to add content that you write. Read more about blocks  at the bottom of this page.

 

Menu

To edit your menu and links, go to: Settings and admin > Site settings > Menus

You'll want to edit the "Main Menu" to change the main links that appear near your logo. The User menu contains your login links.

Is your menu bunched up all on one side?

The css for this theme needs to be uncompressed. In the url bar, add this to your site's url  "/admin/config/development/performance"

example:  http://yoursite.groupanizer.com/admin/config/development/performance

Then uncheck the option to "Aggregate and compress CSS files"

 

Theme Settings

On the "Public Theme Appearance" page you can control several parts of your public site, including:

  • theme accent colours and link colours
  • background images/patterns
  • logo and favicon image

One thing to note is that custom colours can be accidentally reset if the colour dropdown option is set to "atlas default" instead of the blank custom option.

Access this page in the side menu by going to:
Public site > Public theme appearance

Logo

When you switch to a theme you will need to upload your logo. Be mindful of the logo style you're choosing to make sure that the size and orientation (portrait or landscape) fits with the style of your theme.

Logos are uploaded in the "Public theme appearance" page, which is located in the public site area.
In the main menu on the left: 

Public site area > Public Theme appearance.
Scroll down to the section marked "Logo".
Uncheck the option to use the default logo, and a field will open up to allow you to upload an image from your computer.

Most headers will stretch to accommodate the size of the logo, so you don't have to worry about specific image sizes. That said, images that are "landscape" in style (wider than they are tall) work better.

 

Slider Images

The "slider" is the set of rotating images on your front page. They are sometimes called "banners".

Sliders in this theme are controlled by "featured pages". You can add featured pages to add new sliders - or edit exiting featured pages to edit or delete old ones.

Pro tip: you can find all of your current featured pages using the "Content" page (settings and admin) and filtering for type = feature page.

 

Blocks

Throwing a few blocks into place will help you see the layout of your new public theme.

To get to the Blocks page, search for "blocks" in the main menu.

Here's the simplest way to start with the the atlas theme:

 

                                  

 

You'll notice that this site has a lot of blocks in the side bar - this is the panel that runs along the right hand side. These blocks will be configured to only display on certain pages. More information on blocks is available here.

Important: if you want titles to appear on the page sof this theme, place the "Page title" block in the content region, just above "Main page content".

Are certain blocks or regions missing from your blocks page?

Go to your "public site controls" page and select the "force refresh" checkbox, then save the configuration.

Note, your slider will look empty and not appear until you add slider images (see instructions above)