Getting the Most out of the Boxxo Theme

Boxxo is one of Festology’s highly customizable, search-engine-optimized and social-media-ready themes with Disqus-enabled commenting. You can customize images, icons, labels and more.

Header Image

Header images are customized per series. So if you had a header image for your 2011 conference, you’ll need to go into your series setup and enter another for your 2012 conference.

Create your header image in your favorite image editor. It should be 960 pixels wide.
Upload the image to your server or an image hosting service, and make copy the URL for the image.
Go to “Series Setup”.
Select the series to which you’d like to add a header image.
Go to the “Design” tab.
Paste or enter the URL that points to your image in the “Header Image” field.
Click “Save & Close”

Image template coming soon.

Background Image

Background Images are customized per series. So if you had a background image for your 2011 conference, you’ll need to go into your series setup and enter another for your 2012 conference.

Create your background image in your favorite image editor. Light backgrounds work best with the Boxxo theme.
Upload the image to your server or an image hosting service, and make copy the URL for the image.
Go to “Series Setup”.
Select the series to which you’d like to add a background image.
Go to the “Design” tab.
Paste or enter the URL that points to your image in the “Background Image” field.
Click “Save & Close”

Image template coming soon.

Custom Default Images

You can also customize the default images. If you’re missing an image, Festology will insert a default image in its place. With Boxxo, you can customize these default images. Go here for instructions. Note that large default image in Boxxo should be 344×193 and the medium image should be 216×121. (A smaller size of 152×85 will be created from the medium image.)

Image templates coming soon!

Custom Shortcut Icon (“Favicon”)

This theme allows you to use your own shortcut icon, also called a “favicon.” Instructions for adding a favicon is here.

Custom Labels

This theme makes use “labels” to allow you to customize the navigation, the title tags and the breadcrumbs (which show your site’s visitors where they are in your site’s map and how to get back through main pages). You can edit them in the “Series Setup” section by going to the “Labels” tab.

Additional Navigation Items

The Boxxo theme lets you add items to the end of your top navigation (which includes a link to home, your events, your venues, etc.). You can use this widget to add links to your blog, corporate homepage, Facebook page or anything else!

Go to “Pages & Widgets”
Click “Create New”
Under “Series”, select the appropriate series for which you’d like these additional items to appear
For “Page Title”, you can name this widget “Additional Top Navigation Items”
For “Page Url / Widget Name”, you must use “topnavlast”
Click “Next” or the “Content” tab.
Type in the label for your link (example: “Blog”) in the “Page/Widget Content” box. The labels will appear in the order they are listed in this box.
Highlight the label, and click on the link icon.
Enter the url
Put additional labels on their own line.
Click “Next” or the “Page Options” tab.
Where it says “Would you like to this page exclusively as a ‘widget’?”, select “Yes”.
Select “Published” from the pulldown at the bottom of the page that says “Draft”.
Click “Save & Close”.

Homepage Highlights and Homepage Widgets

You can highlight events, participants and works on your homepage. Go to “Series Setup” and select the series for which you’d like to create highlights. In the tabs marked “*Events”, “*Participants” and “*Works”, drag the appropriate items into the box on the right side in the order you’d like them to appear, and hit “Save & Close.”

Don’t like the default labels for your homepage highlights? Change them creating “Widgets” (under “Pages & Widgets”) with short names as follows:

For Events, use “boxxo-hp-header1″ If you don’t set this label, it will default to “Highlights”
For Participants, use “boxxo-hp-header2″ If you don’t set this label, it will default to “Highlighted Participants”
For Works, use “boxxo-hp-header3″ If you don’t set this label, it will default to “More Highlights”

The rest of the homepage is created for you automatically. If you want to insert some text or html at the top of the page, create a Widget with the short name “homepage1″.

Comments

Boxxo is Disqus-enabled. Follow the instructions here to add Disqus-powered comment boxes.

MailChimp Newsletter Signup

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Categories: Festology Setup

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