Appearance

The Appearance configuration options provide a comprehensive set of tools to customize the visual aspects and layout of your eMuseum site. These settings allow for the personalization of colors, fonts, layout structures, and navigation behaviors, ensuring the site aligns with your institution's branding and user experience goals. Below is a detailed description of each configuration option, including practical examples of how they could be used:

General Settings

Rounded Corners

Enables rounded corners for UI elements such as buttons and text inputs. Using rounded corners can create a softer, more modern look for the website.

All Caps Text

Transforms menu items and small labels to upper case. Labels for buttons like "SUBMIT" and "CANCEL" appear in all caps for emphasis.

Displays a large search box inside the content area instead of in the header.

Enable Sharing

Enables social media sharing buttons for objects in the collection, allowing users to share individual works using social media applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, as well as email. It also enables sharing in the List, Images, and Detail pages.

Sets the color for hyperlinks across the site. Choosing a distinct blue for all links to maintain visual consistency.

Sets the color for links when the mouse hovers over them to provide clear visual feedback to users.

Global Base Dark Color

Sets the color for menu items and text.

Global Highlight Color

Sets a color for highlighted elements such as buttons, selected text, and active states.

Media Zone Background Color

Sets the background color on detail pages when using a one-column layout to ensure images and videos stand out.

Global Layout Max Width

Sets the maximum width of the content for all pages.

Typography Body Font

Sets the font face for text in the body of all pages.

Typography Title Font

Sets the font face for titles on all pages.

Typography Font Base Size

Sets the base font size, which scales all text sizes up or down.

Grid Gutter Width

Sets the amount of space between items in grid view.

Centered Header

Centers the logo and main menu on the page.

Bar

Adds a colored bar behind the header section.

Header Vertical Padding

Adds padding to the top and bottom of the header.

Header Bg Color

Sets the color of the header bar if it is enabled.

Header Text Color

Sets the text color inside the header if the header bar is enabled.

Enable or disable the page footer.

Adds padding to the top and bottom of the footer.

Sets the background color of the footer.

Sets the color of text inside the footer.

Image Grid

Results Layout

One Column

Displays filters and results in one column.

Two Column

Displays the filters and results in two columns.

Details Layout

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