Learn to streamline the build of your website with global settings and customize the various features of your website such as your favicon, primary colors, button appearance, and more.
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What are global settings?
Global settings help you streamline the design process for your standard website pages so you can focus on the design aspects that matter to you.
Configuring your global settings will carry your settings into all of your standard website pages to easily create a cohesive, branded experience for your site.
Your global settings include design features from your favicon and page fonts to your background media and color:
By using the global settings available with the new website builder you can easily incorporate your website vision for your design and brand by customizing your global settings first.
Defining global settings
Favicon is a small icon on a website's tab or window of a web browser. With the global settings, you can upload your favicon once to display for all of your standard website pages built with the website builder. Learn more
Style Guide contains the bulk of your design settings. This includes the general appearance, primary color, button appearance, fonts and font sizes, and lastly the colors used for error messages. Learn more
Design Tools include the grid and guide to help you take control of the build and structure of your page. Learn more
Custom Code in your Page Settings allow you to insert any custom HTML, CSS, or Javascript into your page. Although most can achieve unique designs with the Custom Code Block, you may desire more advanced functionality or appearances that can only be achieved with the Custom Code page setting. Learn more
Password Recovery appears after a user clicks the Forgot password button in the Login Page. Customize your password recovery language with this setting. Learn more
Password Reset page appears if your user has forgotten their password and has clicked the reset password link in the email received. Learn more
Disqus Comments is a comment hosting service that makes it easy to moderate comments and gauge engagement. Create a disqus comments section for your standard website pages with this global setting. Learn more
Disabled Pages allow you to disable or remove the Member Directory, Announcements page, About, and Contact pages from your website. Learn more
How to access global settings
Global settings are only available with the new website builder.
If you wish to use global settings learn to install the website builder to your site. Learn more
After installing the website builder, you can adjust the global settings for your website in any standard website page.
To locate your global settings:
- Open the Website tab.
- Click Design.
- Select any standard website page.
- Click Customize.
- Navigate to the sidebar panel.
- Click Settings to access your global website page settings:
