Site Builder role
Publications
The Publications feature in Berkeley Web Builder allows you to manage and display academic work, such as journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. A "Publication" content item includes dedicated fields for the document title, abstract, date, location, and citation.
This feature includes dedicated widgets for showcasing publications with or without...
Collapsible content
Collapsible content (also known as accordion or expand/collapse content) can be added manually to a Basic Page via the HTML source option in the WYSIWYG toolbar, or to non-Basic pages as a Text widget. There is also a collapsible content display in the Listings widgets, and a collapsible display for FAQ widgets.
Collapsible content can be mixed with standard text on a Basic page or text widget; see Figure 1 for an example of this layout on a...
People
The People feature in Berkeley Web Builder allows you to create content for individual people, which can then be featured using dedicated People widgets on Custom pages. A "Person" content item includes fields for a name, role, job title, bio/CV, research interests, a photo, and contact information. Many of these field labels are configurable to suit your site's...
Image crop options
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Featured image
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Theme and branding
The Berkeley Web Builder theme comes from the UC Berkeley Brand guidelines , developed and maintained by Strategic Communications.
If you have questions about the UC Berkeley Brand design elements and the Berkeley Web Builder theme, please contact the UC Berkeley Brand team at brand@berkeley.edu.
Brand theme and optionsThe theme refers to the "look and feel" of the website: The fonts, colors, and other structural elements (i.e., the UC Berkeley wordmark, site name/banner region, main menu, and footer). There are a few theme settings available to Site Builders and Site Managers; see Setti...
Feature categories
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Content tags
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Hero image and color band
The Berkeley Web Builder "Hero" feature allows you to display text in the page title area of a Custom page with either a full-width image or background color or as a color band. Hero images can also be displayed without text.
A Hero or color band can only be used on Custom pages and can be added and configured from within the "Edit" tab of a Custom page. See Figure 1, below, of the Berkeley Web Builder homepage for an example of a Hero image on a Custom page.