Designing a board header

The header is the space running across the very top of your board. It includes room for a logo, tagline and share buttons. To edit and design your header, you can use the features in the Header tab – the second tab under Design.

Note: Whenever you design a specific section of your board, Folloze displays a mini-preview highlighting that section with a green outline and label.

The mini-preview takes up the right half of the design toolbox, and automatically updates whenever you make design changes, even if you haven’t saved them. (To make changes permanent, click Save.)

Header tab. Board mini-preview is to the right.

Close-up of the header mini-preview.

To start designing a board header:

1. Go to your Folloze homepage. Click on the board you want to design.

2. Click the Design tab. Click Header.

3. Make your changes to the header design.

4. When you finish, click Save at the bottom to save your changes.

Adding a logo or brand image to a board header

To add your company’s logo or brand image to a board header:

1. Go to your Folloze homepage. Click on the board you want to edit.

2. Click the Design tab. Click Header.

3. Under Logo or brand image, click Choose File.

4. Choose an image to upload from your files. We recommend images no larger than 50px high and 140px wide. Folloze will then display a preview of the new logo.

5. Make sure the Logo or brand image toggle button is turned on. 

6. At the bottom, click Save to save your changes.

Note: When you choose a logo, you can also apply a white background to it. Just turn on the toggle button for Add white background container to logo. In some cases, this can help make your logo or brand image stand out better.

                             

Logo with white background on vs. off

Adding a link to a logo

Want to give viewers a shortcut to your website, or any other page? Make your logo clickable by embedding a link. Here’s how:

1. Go to your Folloze homepage. Click on the board you want to edit.

2. Click the Design tab. Click Header.

3. Under Logo Link, enter the URL of the link you want to add to your logo.

4. Make sure the Logo or brand image toggle button is turned on.

5. At the bottom, click Save to save your changes. Now, when viewers click your logo, their browser will open this link in a new tab.

Adding Padding to your logo

If you feel the logo you uploaded is proportionally too big for the board, you can add a padding to shrink it's size. 

1. Go to your Folloze homepage. Click on the board you want to edit.

2. Click the Design tab. Click Header.

3. Turn the toggle button on

Adding a tagline

Folloze provides space in your header where you can add a tagline for your company. For the tagline, many users choose a slogan which their organization already uses.

To add a tagline to your board header:

1. Go to your Folloze homepage. Click on the board you want to edit.

2. Click the Design tab. Click Header.

3. Under Tag Line, enter your tagline into the text field.

4. At the bottom, click Save to save your changes. In your header, your tagline will now appear to the right of your logo.

Tip: Taglines are limited to 50 characters. Use the counter in the lower right corner of the text field to keep track.

Solid white header background 

To make your header’s background a solid white, turn on the toggle button for Solid Background Color (White).

Alternately, you can leave your header’s background clear by turning off the toggle button. In this case, the top portion of your banner background image will become the header background.

 

Enabling viewers to share your board: adding share buttons

By adding share buttons to your header, you make it easy for viewers to share your board via email, or social media. And that’s always a good thing, because the more people your content reaches, the better!

To add share buttons to a board:

1. Go to your Folloze homepage. Click on the board you want to edit.

2. Click the Design tab. Click Header.

3. At the bottom are toggle buttons for each share button. To enable viewers to email your board to others, turn on the toggle button for Share with Email.

To enable viewers to post your board directly to social media, turn on the toggle buttons for the Facebook, Twitter and/or LinkedIn Share Buttons.

4. At the bottom, click Save to save your changes.

Viewers will now see the share button in the top right of your board:

And will open this dialogue box: