This blueprint has been designed and tested for all page types, except Symbolic Giving (formerly ecommerce) for which there is a dedicated blueprint template and Click to Call.
This template is an all-round blueprint that can be used for your page-builder pages.
Features
- The template is designed to work with almost all page types, except eCommerce (for which there is a dedicated blueprint template) and Click to Call
- It features a full-screen fixed background image, or background colour
- The content is within a white area on top of the image that can be positioned to the left, centre or right, or to support one or two columns.
- There is support for custom or Google Fonts*
- You can add expandable “read more” text blocks
For other sample templates that are available, click here.
How to create a template from this blueprint
- Go to Pages > Components, and then Templates on the left menu
- Click New Template, and then click on the Template blueprints tab. This will list all Sample templates (that we provide) as well as any Account blueprints that you may have added yourselves
- Under Sample templates, click on “Free & Flexible page template V2” (see below for a rundown), and then click
Select - The editor will open. On the left you’ll see various vertical tabs that allow you to adjust different parts of the template that will be created from the blueprint. For more information on what is available, read the information on the blueprint you are working with below
- Give the template a name and Save. This will create a new page template for you to use on your page or pages.
Editing Free and Flexible blueprint templates
Here’s a rundown of the blueprint options:
General
| Item | Description |
| Organization name | The name of your organization. This displays in the tab title in your browser, along with the page name, for example: Email your MP | The Human Fund |
| Layout | The layout of the page. You have four options. If you are unsure which to use, why not try a split test of two layouts?
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| Background color | The background color of the main page. This will show if you do not have a background image |
| Background image URL | The background image of the page. This will be resized to fill the entire background but not distorted |
| Link color | The color of text links |
| Content corners | Set the rounded corners of the main content box. 0px would give you square corners |
| Secondary background color | The background color of the second column if using the two column layout. |
Logo
| Item | Description |
| Logo image URL | The URL of your logo that is shown at the top of the content |
| Logo alignment | The horizontal position of the logo – middle is default, or choose left or right |
| favicon image URL |
The URL of the “favicon”. This is the small image that appears in the browser tab |
| Logo width | The width of your logo that is shown at the top of the content |
| Logo height | The height of your logo that is shown at the top of the content. Leave as “auto” and it will be in proportion based on its width |
Submit button tab
| Item | Description |
| Button background color | The background color of the buttons (submit buttons and donation buttons, if using) |
| Button background color (on hover) | The background color of these buttons that shows when the cursor hovers over them. If you don’t want this effect, keep both colors the same |
| Button corners | Set the rounded corners of the button. 0px would give you square corners |
| Button font color | The font color of your submit button. This defaults to white |
| Button font color (on hover) | The font color of your submit button when hovered over. This defaults to white |
Fonts
| Item | Description |
| Default font family | The font that is used for all text on the page. You have a choice of all built-in browser fonts such as Arial and Verdana. If you wish to use an other font, choose “Other”. You will need to add any font code though which you can do under the “Fonts (advanced)” tab. |
| Default font size | The base font size for all paragraph text. Headings are proportionately larger than this |
| Main font color | The color of all other text |
| Headings color | The color of the Headings in your text blocks. If you want, can change individual heading types under Fonts (advanced) |
Fonts (advanced)
| Item | Description |
| Heading 1 font family | By default, Heading 1 will use the root font. But if you can change it here if you want a different heading to your paragraph text. |
| Heading 2 colour | Defaults to be the same as Heading 1 if left as var(–h1_color) |
| Heading 2 font family | As for Heading 1 font family |
| Heading 3 colour | As for Heading 2 colour |
| Heading 3 font family | As for Heading 1 font family |
| Heading 4 colour | As for Heading 2 colour |
| Heading 4 font family | As for Heading 1 font family |
| Custom fonts |
If you wish to use a font other than the ones provided, you can use Google Font’s service** by pasting in the code they give you.
Or you can upload your own font files and use this to assign a font name to the file. |
Donation pages
These items are specific to Donation pages only.
| Item | Description |
| Donation amount input type |
If using radios for your donation amounts to offer a string of choices, you can keep their style as radios or as buttons via this option |
| Donation frequency input type | If using radios for your donation frequencies to offer a string of choices (e.g. monthly or annually), you can keep their style as radios or as buttons via this option |
| Donation recurring payment input type | If using radios for your Recurring Payment field (that sets whether the donation will be recurring “Y” or not “N”), you can keep their style as radios or as buttons via this option |
| Donations buttons color (unselected) | If using buttons for any of the above, this sets the color of the amount, frequency or recurring payment background button color when it is unselected |
| Donations buttons font color (unselected) | The color of the amount, frequency or recurring payment font color when it is unselected |
| Donations buttons color (selected) | The color of the button background when selected |
| Donations buttons font color (selected) | The color of the button font color when selected |
| Donations buttons color (on hover) | The color of the button background on hover |
| Donations buttons font color (on hover) | The color of the button font color on hover |
Event pages
These items are specific to Event pages only.
| Item | Description |
| Ticket block Additional Donation display | Show or hide the “Additional donation” box in the ticket block |
| Ticket block Promo Code display | Show or hide the “Promo Code” box in the ticket block |
Extras
| Item | Description |
| Add jQuery | If you want the jQuery library (3.6.0) added to your template’s header, choose Yes. No is default |
| Header scripts (script tags included) | Any other scripts, such as Google Analytics, Tag Manager or Facebook Pixel, can be pasted here and they will be put into the <head> of the template. DO NOT INCLUDE <script> TAGS HERE. If you wish to, you can edit the template directly for more flexibility |
| Mandatory asterisk | Show a * after mandatory fields. You can show or hide it with this option |
Additional functionality
Once created, there is additional functionality you can take advantage of within the page-builder.
| Item | Description |
| Events pages ticket block | The ticket block does not show the submit button when using this template. Instead add your own via a Form Block |
| Read more | Any block can be made to “click to expand” by adding the following class to it via the block’s style section (palette icon):
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| Hide | Add the hide class (via a block’s Palette icon and in the Custom class names box) to hide the block in preview/live mode but not in the page-builder
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| Troubleshooting | Need to troubleshoot the layout? Add this to the <body> tag:
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| Personal information title | To style a heading with a prefixed icon for your personal information heading (must be Heading 2), add the following class to the text block via its style section (palette icon):
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| Personal information form block | To layout a form block that contains the fields First Name, Last Name & Email Address, add the following class to the text block via its style section (palette icon):
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| Address title | To style a heading with a prefixed icon for your address heading (must be Heading 2), add the following class to the text block via its style section (palette icon):
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| Address form block | To layout a form block that contains the fields Address 1, Address 2, City, Region, Postal Code & Country, add the following class to the text block via its style section (palette icon):
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| Payment information title | To style a heading with a prefixed icon for your payment information heading (must be Heading 2), add the following class to the text block via its style section (palette icon):
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| Personal information form block | To layout a form block that contains the fields Payment Type, Credit Card Number, Credit Card Expiration [split select] & Credit Card Verification Value, add the following class to the text block via its style section (palette icon):
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Using Google Fonts
See this article for more information
* Due to recent EU decisions on GDPR it has been determined that some Google services, which includes Google fonts and scripts, are not compliant with GDPR due to the processing of IP addresses (IP address counts as Personally Identifiable Information (PII) under GDPR). The purpose of this email is simply to notify you of this ruling. If you have used Google fonts or scripts in any of your Engaging Networks pages, we recommend you download them from Google, upload them as assets into the Engaging Networks file library and then refer to these assets in your templates instead. This will remove any connection with Google’s servers and will prevent any data transfers occurring.