Theme Changes

We've been busy migrating sites from our original VIU Drupal theme to our new, mobile first theme that matches the rest of our public VIU sites and strives for consistent user experience.

Shown in the following sections are the new locations of buttons and menu options commonly used by content editors:

* New Site Navigation Location

Edit Button

The Edit button has been moved to the bottom right of the screen and is displayed as a pencil icon:

Viupal 2 Edit button

Create New Page

The Create content button has been moved to the bottom right of the screen as is displayed as '+ Create'. Note: hover on the create button then slide the cursor up to the type of content:

Content View

The Content View option has been moved to the configuration menu on the left of the screen. Steps to find:

Click the double arrows '>>' if the sidebar is not visible
Click the 'Cog' icon
Find 'Content' in the list

Viupal 2 Content view

The top banner image, or “Hero Image” (first visual element a visitor encounters that sits behind the content of the site) is to give prospective students an idea of what it’s like to be a student at our university so it’s good to show an image that highlights the campus or program facilities, field schools, etc., with the subject in the photo engaged in some way with their professor or research.

From the landing page of your site, you can replace the Hero Image and any child pages of that page will change to that image. The Hero image can be modified by editing the page and finding Hero image in the edit screen. If you don’t have a suitable image, you can contact Strategic Marketing as they likely have images to use, or can arrange with you to have a photo taken.