Can You Bring Your Own Website Template To Nationbuilder

Websites can cost thousands of dollars to build, only NationBuilder gives y'all the tools to hands replicate the pros at a fraction of the cost. Your website shouldn't just be a beautiful billboard, it needs to be an interactive experience that volition bring in supporters.

To first, decide what you'd like your website to look like. You may take selected a theme during installation, and in that case, you can e'er follow these steps to change your theme at any fourth dimension.

Click on Website > Website name > Theme, then Switch to a stock theme. Here you will detect the pre-congenital designs that are readily bachelor for y'all. One time you lot detect one you like, hover over it and click Employ Theme. Yous'll be directed to the Switch style tab to select your style for the theme by clicking Use style.

Edit your homepage

Adjacent, its fourth dimension to tell your story by customizing your 'About' page.

To edit your 'About' page, navigate to Website > Website proper name. You'll state on the pages screen. Hover over 'About' and click on the Edit button to the left of the page proper name. So, click on the Content tab. This is where you will tell your story. You lot'll discover nosotros've provided you with some guidance text to go you started, delete this and add your own content.

Follow the aforementioned process to customize any other "placeholder" pages.

Featured content sliders and groundwork images

Featured content sliders alive nether Website > Pages > Edit page > Settings > Featured content sliders. Yous tin find the best dimensions for featured content sliders on your particular public theme here.

You'll characterization the paradigm for your own noesis, add a headline that will display on top of the photo and add a page to feature (aka link to). Click Choose File, select the paradigm and click Salve featured content slider.

Finally, its time to customize navigation settings. The idea behind supporter nav is that y'all want to create specific pages for your supporters to interact with y'all and each other on your website, enhancing the customs aspect of your nation. What folio types are included in the supporter nav is entirely up to you.

NationBuilder includes some default folio types which give you an idea of how to make the most out of the supporter nav, these pages include:

Activity- Allows your supporters to see an individualized stream of everything going on in your nation that pertains specifically to them, i.e. people they are following, pages they are following, pages they are a role of (events they RSVP'd for), etc.

Spread the discussion- Supporters tin can generate and share a personal recruiting link. This page will testify people that they take recruited to the nation and how many of those have become volunteers, donors, voters.

Social Capital- Shows supporters where they stand in comparing to other users.

Follows/Followers- Other users from your website the supporter is following or are following them.

Observe Friends- Allows supporters to detect friends from their social networks who are also users on the website.

Here are a couple of other ideas for what to include in the supporter nav:

Create a suggestion box page for logged in users only, permit them have input in the goals and principles of the nation.

Create an events calendar for logged in users. Post meetings and events that are just for them. Allow users to create their own events here.

Add a page to the supporter nav

ane. When creating a new folio, check the box adjacent to "Include in supporter nav." This selection is listed directly above the Create page button.

two. When editing a folio, get to Settings > Folio settings. Below the published appointment, you'll encounter a checkbox side by side to the option to "Include in supporter nav." Cheque the box and then click the Save folio button to save your changes.

Create a website theme with NationBuilder
Create and edit webpages
Configure featured content sliders
How the supporter navigation works

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