The overall design of your website is determined by which theme you choose. Browse our stock themes, theme styles and descriptions in the theme gallery. You can select a theme in your control panel by clicking Website > {Name of Your Site} > Theme. This gives you the option to choose from our stock themes. Once you choose a theme, you can then select a style to determine the color palette of your site.

Global settings for your entire website are handled from Websites > {Name of Your Site} > Site settings. This includes the name of the site, who the primary broadcaster for your site is, and settings that can be turned off across the entire site. Many of these settings can also be toggled on individual pages within your site - whatever choice you make here will over-ride what is in your page settings. Unchecking "show parent in nav dropdown" is a particularly popular option.  

Top navigation dropdown with and without parent included:

Pages that should be easily accessible to all visitors of your site, like your blog and calendar of events, should be included in the top nav, the horizontal navigation that appears at the top of all pages in your website.

Pages that are only useful if a person is logged in are included in the supporter nav, a vertical bar on the left or right side of your website. When a person isn’t logged into your website, the supporter nav disappears and can be replaced by buttons that encourage them to engage with your site.
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Go to the top nav tab to see the order of pages displaying in the top navigation of your site. You can click on an item and drag and drop it to a new location to change the order of items in your top nav.

The supporter nav area allows you to define the text of up to three buttons to display when a visitor to your website is not signed in. The reorder links section allows you to order the items in the supporter nav with the same drag and drop functionality as the top nav.

Featured content sliders on your home page provide an additional way to navigate your site. 

Many times you want to feature the latest blog post and the most recent upcoming event under the main content on your homepage. Or perhaps you want to display a petition or contact form. This is easy to do in NationBuilder.

If you are using a current public theme and are using a "basic" page type for your homepage, you can easily add a homepage widget by adding the page tag homepage to any page under [Your Page] > Settings > Page Settings.

To remove an excerpt from the homepage, simply remove the tag homepage from the page.

The homepage excerpts are sorted by the oldest published full versions of these pages first. To change their order you can simply modify the published dates of the pages corresponding to these excerpts via the Settings > Page Settings section in the control panel.

Stock themes have recommended image sizes that are unique to that theme, so please follow the guidelines below for content sliders, header image, and background photo to ensure everything looks and works as well as it can.

Deep dive on these stock themes available for NationBuilder. Raise and Momentum are built on Bootstrap 4, meaning they're more responsive on more devices and can be customized more quickly.