How to Navigate Header and Footer - Footer (Detailed)

How to Navigate Header and Footer - Footer (Detailed)

This guide offers a comprehensive step-by-step process for creating and customizing footers in PodUp, empowering users to enhance their website's design with unique branding elements like logos and favicons. It covers essential design aspects such as color schemes, typography, and button styles, ensuring a cohesive look across the site. By utilizing this guide, even those with minimal technical skills can create a professional and visually appealing footer that improves user experience and aligns with their brand identity.


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Tip: Footer: The bottom section of a website that usually appears on every page—it often includes links, contact info, social media icons, copyright text, or legal notices.

1. Click "My Site"

2. Click "Header & Footer"

3. Click "Add New Footer"

4. Click "Footer Name" and enter the footer name

Click "Create"

5. A new window opens up "Global Design"

Global Design refers to the ability to define and apply a consistent design and layout to these critical sections across your entire website from a single place

6. Click "Favicon" to add your favourate icon

A Favicon (short for "favorite icon") is a small, square, iconic image that represents your website

Click "Attach file" to add the image then click "Save" once you have chosen your favicon

7. Click "Logo" to add logo

"Logo" refers to the graphical mark or emblem that represents your brand, company, or personal identity on your website

Click "Attach file" to add the logo then click "Save" to apply the changes

8. Click "Footer Logo" to add a logo at the footer section of your website

The Footer Logo is an instance of your brand's logo that is specifically placed within the footer section of your website. The footer is the bottommost section that appears consistently across all or most pages of your site, typically containing copyright information, navigation links, contact details, and sometimes social media links

Click "Attach file" to add the footer logo then click "Save" to apply the changes

9. Click "Color"

When you manage "Color" in the Global Design section, you're not just setting the color for one specific piece of text or one background. Instead, you're defining the entire color palette and scheme for all header in your entire website

  • Pick theme colors or add your own colors by clicking "+ Add new color"

  • To change the color

    • Click the colored box where you can select the color from the color spectrum or insert a specific number using Hex, rgb, or hsl

      • Hex: A 6-digit code that starts with # (like #FF5733). It defines color using combinations of red, green, and blue in hexadecimal format. Common in web design.

      • rgb: Stands for Red, Green, Blue. It defines color using three numbers (like rgb(255, 87, 51)), where each number ranges from 0 to 255 to mix the right shade.

      • hsl: Stands for Hue, Saturation, Lightness. It defines color based on:

        • Hue (0–360 degrees on a color wheel),

        • Saturation (intensity of the color), and

        • Lightness (brightness from black to white). Example: hsl(12, 100%, 60%).

Each method produces the same result—a specific color—just in different formats.

Click "Save"

10. Click "Fonts"

"Fonts" in your Global Design settings means you are defining the default typefaces, sizes, and styles for all text elements in your header section

Click "Save"

11. "Typography" lets you to change the font, size, color, alignment etc. of the text

  • Font family: Select the typeface (the specific design of the letters) to be used for the text

12. Font Weight: Controls the boldness or thickness of the text characters

13. Font Size: Controls the height of the characters in your text

  • The bigger the number the bigger the character
  • The unit can be changed to adjust to the specific project you are working in. Generally px is easiest
    • px (pixels): Like little dots on the screen. 200px means 200 dots wide or tall.
    • % (percent): A part of something else. 50% means half the size of the box it’s in.
    • em: Grows with the text around it. 2em is 2 times bigger than the normal text.
    • rem: Like em, but always starts from the main page size. 1rem is usually normal-size text.
    • vh (viewport height): How tall the screen is. 100vh means the whole height of the screen.
    • vw (viewport width): How wide the screen is. 100vw means the whole width of the screen

14. Letter Spacing: Controls the horizontal space between individual characters (letters) within a word. Also known as "tracking" in traditional typography

  • The bigger the number the more space between the characters
  • Change the unit by clicking the blue dash next to the number
    • px (pixels): Like little dots on the screen. 200px means 200 dots wide or tall.
    • % (percent): A part of something else. 50% means half the size of the box it’s in.
    • em: Grows with the text around it. 2em is 2 times bigger than the normal text.
    • rem: Like em, but always starts from the main page size. 1rem is usually normal-size text.
    • vh (viewport height): How tall the screen is. 100vh means the whole height of the screen.
    • vw (viewport width): How wide the screen is. 100vw means the whole width of the screen

15. Line Height: Controls the vertical space between lines of text within a paragraph or text block. Also known as "leading" in traditional typography

  • 1 is the standard spacing size
  • Change the units by selecting the dash next to the number
    • px (pixels): Like little dots on the screen. 200px means 200 dots wide or tall.
    • % (percent): A part of something else. 50% means half the size of the box it’s in.
    • em: Grows with the text around it. 2em is 2 times bigger than the normal text.
    • rem: Like em, but always starts from the main page size. 1rem is usually normal-size text.
    • vh (viewport height): How tall the screen is. 100vh means the whole height of the screen.
    • vw (viewport width): How wide the screen is. 100vw means the whole width of the screen

16. - Text align: Controls the horizontal alignment of text and inline content within its containing element (e.g., a paragraph, heading, button, or column). It dictates where the text begins and ends horizontally within the available space of its parent

  • Left: Align the text to the left edge of its container. The right edge of the text will appear "ragged" or uneven
  • Center: Centers the text horizontally within its container. Both the left and right edges of the text will appear ragged
  • Right: Aligns the text to the right edge of its container. The left edge of the text will appear ragged

17. Corner radius: Controls how rounded the corners of a button look—higher values make the button more curved, while lower values keep it square or sharp.

  • Linked corners: All four corners are set to the same radius (in this case, 8px).
  • Unlinked corners: Lets you set each corner independently (top-left, top-right, etc.) with different values.

Set the sharpness of the corner by changing the number in the box

  • The lower the number the sharper the value
  • The higher the number the more curved the corner
  • Change the units by selecting the dash next to the number
    • px (pixels): Like little dots on the screen. 200px means 200 dots wide or tall.
    • % (percent): A part of something else. 50% means half the size of the box it’s in.
    • em: Grows with the text around it. 2em is 2 times bigger than the normal text.
    • rem: Like em, but always starts from the main page size. 1rem is usually normal-size text.
    • vh (viewport height): How tall the screen is. 100vh means the whole height of the screen.
    • vw (viewport width): How wide the screen is. 100vw means the whole width of the screen.

18. Border Width: Controls the thickness of the border line. Change the size (number) and unit by adding a number and clicking 1 of the 5 following units

  • px (pixels): Like little dots on the screen. 200px means 200 dots wide or tall.

  • em: Grows with the text around it. 2em is 2 times bigger than the normal text.

  • rem: Like em, but always starts from the main page size. 1rem is usually normal-size text.

  • vh (viewport height): How tall the screen is. 100vh means the whole height of the screen.

  • vw (viewport width): How wide the screen is. 100vw means the whole width of the screen.

Border Style: Determines the visual pattern or type of the border line. This is crucial for how the border looks

  • Solid: A single, unbroken line as the border
  • Dotted: A border made of evenly spaced round dots
  • Dashed: A border made of short, straight dashes

Border Color: Defines the color of the border line

  • Click the colored box to pick the color from the color spectrum or to insert your hex code, rgb or hsl

    • Hex Code: A six-digit code used in web design to represent a specific color. It starts with a # symbol followed by numbers and letters (like #FF5733). This can help you stay consis

19. "Dimension" lets you to adjust the dimensions of the button as per your needs

  • Width: Set the horizontal size of an element on a web page
  • Height: Set the vertical size of an element on a web page
  • Max. width: Set an upper limit for an element's width. The element will never be wider than this value, but it can be narrower
  • Min height: Set a lower limit for an element's height. The element will never be shorter than this value, but it can be taller

Next to each of these elements, you can change the number and the unit of the feature. See below for an explanation of the units

  • px (pixels): Like little dots on the screen. 200px means 200 dots wide or tall.
  • % (percent): A part of something else. 50% means half the size of the box it’s in.
  • em: Grows with the text around it. 2em is 2 times bigger than the normal text.
  • rem: Like em, but always starts from the main page size. 1rem is usually normal-size text.
  • vh (viewport height): How tall the screen is. 100vh means the whole height of the screen.
  • vw (viewport width): How wide the screen is. 100vw means the whole width of the screen.

20. Margin is the space outside an element (like a box, image, or text block) on a webpage.

  • Margin top: Controls the space above an element. It pushes the element down from whatever is directly above it (e.g., another element, the browser window edge, or its parent container's top edge)
  • Margin bottom: Controls the space below an element. It pushes the element up from whatever is directly below it
  • Margin left: Controls the space to the left of an element. It pushes the element to the right from whatever is directly to its left
  • Margin right: Controls the space to the right of an element. It pushes the element to the left from whatever is directly to its right

Next to each of these elements, you can change the number and the unit of the feature. See below for an explanation of the units

  • px (pixels): Like little dots on the screen. 200px means 200 dots wide or tall.
  • % (percent): A part of something else. 50% means half the size of the box it’s in.
  • em: Grows with the text around it. 2em is 2 times bigger than the normal text.
  • rem: Like em, but always starts from the main page size. 1rem is usually normal-size text.
  • vh (viewport height): How tall the screen is. 100vh means the whole height of the screen.
  • vw (viewport width): How wide the screen is. 100vw means the whole width of the screen.

21. Padding: Padding creates inner space within an element. It pushes the element's content away from its own borders (and therefore away from its own edges)

  • Padding top: Controls the inner space above an element's content. It pushes the content down from the element's top border
  • Padding bottom: Controls the inner space below an element's content. It pushes the content up from the element's bottom border
  • Padding left: Controls the inner space to the left of an element's content. It pushes the content to the right from the element's left border
  • Padding right: Controls the inner space to the right of an element's content. It pushes the content to the left from the element's right border

Next to each of these elements, you can change the number and the unit of the feature. See below for an explanation of the units

  • px (pixels): Like little dots on the screen. 200px means 200 dots wide or tall.
  • % (percent): A part of something else. 50% means half the size of the box it’s in.
  • em: Grows with the text around it. 2em is 2 times bigger than the normal text.
  • rem: Like em, but always starts from the main page size. 1rem is usually normal-size text.
  • vh (viewport height): How tall the screen is. 100vh means the whole height of the screen.
  • vw (viewport width): How wide the screen is. 100vw means the whole width of the screen.

Click "Save" to keep the settings

22. Click "Button" under Global Design settings

"Button" settings in the Global Design section, you are defining the default visual appearance for all (or specific types of) buttons across your header section of your website. This ensures that every time you add a new button, it automatically adopts a consistent, on-brand look and feel without you having to manually style it each time

  • Primary: Used for the main action on a page, like "Submit" or "Save." It usually has a bold or standout color to draw attention.
    • Default shows how the button looks sitting on the website
    • Hover shows how the button looks when the cursor is over the button
      • This can look the same as the default, or it can be different to add an interactive element to your site
    • A preview of the button will appear to demonstrate how the button will appear on the main page
  • Secondary: Used for less important actions, like "Cancel" or "Learn More." It typically has a lighter color or an outlined style to appear less prominent.
    • Default shows how the button looks sitting on the website
    • Hover shows how the button looks when the cursor is over the button
      • This can look the same as the default, or it can be different to add an interactive element to your site
    • A preview of the button will appear to demonstrate how the button will appear on the main page

To edit the features of the button see steps 11-21

23. Click "Components" to add, move, delete, or rearrange components

Components (sometimes also called "blocks," "widgets," "modules," or "elements") are essentially pre-built, reusable building blocks that you drag and drop onto your webpage to construct its layout and add content. They are the fundamental units that make up your website, allowing you to create a complex site without needing to write code from scratch

Think of components like LEGO bricks. Each brick has a specific shape and function, and you combine them in various ways to build a complete structure

24. Choose over 20+ templates for As Seen on, Footer, Newsletter, Video Testimonial and 404 Page etc.

25. Click on the desired template and add it to your Footer section

  • Global style: A site-wide design setting you can apply to multiple elements—changing it updates all elements using that style.
  • Default style: The starting design automatically applied to an element unless you customize or override it.

Click "Apply Changes"

26. Search for specific components using the search bar

27. Click the display icons to change the display of the page. This helps you edit the website according to different screen sizes

  • Computer icon: Switches the view to desktop mode. Lets you see and edit how your website looks on a full-sized screen.

  • Tablet icon: Switches the view to tablet mode. Lets you adjust layout and styling for mid-sized screens like iPads or other tablets.

  • Phone icon: Switches the view to mobile mode. Helps you fine-tune how your website looks and functions on smartphones.

  • Square icon: Often represents a full-width or default view. It may reset the display or show the original layout without device-specific styling. (Exact function can vary depending on the builder.)

28. Click "Undo" which reverses your last change, like deleting text or moving something by mistake

29. Click "Redo" which brings back a change you just undid, in case you want it again

30. Click "Open Code" to open the code and view the HTML and CSS codes

  • Note - You cannot edit the code here

31. Click "Erase" to clear the page

A confirmation popup will appear asking for confirmation that you want to delete the page

  • Click "Yes" to continue erasing the page
  • Click "No" to keep the page content

32. Click "Edit Code" to edit the HTML or CSS code

33. Click "Preview" to view the website as would appear on the browser

The web preview will open in a different tab

34. Click "Save" to keep all the progress that you've made on the Header and Footer


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