Ultimate guide to home page configuration
In its most basic form, your program's home page is where users log into or register for the platform. Good Grants offers you the flexibility to configure this page using a variety of different options to display your branding, highlight a category, give access to a public gallery, and more.
Enabling/disabling registration
For those that are just beginning the configuration journey, you may wish to disable registration of new users. You can easily toggle registrations off and on by deselecting or selecting the Enable user registration checkbox in Settings > Users > Registration of the Manage workspace.
For more detailed information on registration setup, see our Registration configuration guide.
3rd party authentication
You may wish for users to log in or register with a social platform like Facebook, Twitter, or WordPress or even through the use of your organisation's SAML or SSO. To add 3rd party authentication to your account, check out the steps outlined in our dedicated article: 3rd party authentication.
Configure branding
The home page of your program can be configured to include a home logo, a background image, a footer image, and colours to meet your branding needs. Each of these elements can be customised via Settings > General > Theme in the Manage workspace.
Home logo (desktop):
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This is the logo users will see when navigating to your program's URL on a desktop computer or large tablet. Using the available Horizontal align home logo drop-down, you can choose whether this logo image is aligned to the left, center, or right of the page.
Note: the home logo image is not scaled and will appear in the exact size of the file uploaded. Depending on browser proportions, some cropping of the image may occur. This cropping is unavoidable as browser dimensions are controlled by the end-user.
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| Recommended asset dimensions (px) | 700 x 250 |
Home logo (mobile)
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This is the logo users will see when navigating to your program's URL on a mobile device. Using the available Horizontal align home logo drop-down, you can choose whether this logo image is aligned to the left, center, or right of the page.
Note: the home logo image is not scaled and will appear in the exact size of the file uploaded. This cropping is unavoidable as browser dimensions are controlled by the end-user.
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| Recommended asset dimensions (px) | 300 x 200 |
Home background image
| Use | This is the image that fills the available background space on your program's login page. This image is automatically cropped to fit the size of the screen. |
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| Recommended asset dimensions (px) | 1920 x 1000 |
Content blocks
There are two primary content blocks that can display on your program's home page, the 'Home program description' and 'Home header info box'. The 'Home program description' content block comes configured with placeholder content when your account is created. These content blocks can be edited (or added) via Settings > Content > Content blocks of the Manage workspace.
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For program's that configure an 'About' page that is visible to all roles, the menu shown will appear on your home page. |
Learn more about content blocks here: Content configuration and management.
Featured categories
If you'd like to showcase your category with a link to apply on your program's login page you can! Just follow these steps:
- In the Manage workspace, go to Settings > Applications > Categories
- Click your desired category
- Select the Yes radio button under the 'Display category on public home page' heading
- Save
Public galleries
Any galleries that you wish to be available to the public will also be added to your program's home page as shown below.
To configure a public gallery, follow the steps outlined in our dedicated guide: Configure a gallery.