Your Get Connected site will have a banner that runs across the top of the site. It displays prominently on the landing page for your volunteers - or potential volunteers. So you will want it to be engaging and representative of your organization. 

Your banner visibly displays your brand - who you are, the face you show to the world.

To the volunteers, it looks something like this:

So how do you create one of these? We have a simple process for making an appealing banner.

The banner is created on your Main Settings page. On the right of that page, under Site Design, you’ll see a section for banners. Creating a banner is fun and not as intimidating as it might seem at first.

Not sure where to start? Here are a few tools and tips.

• You can follow the steps in the article Banners and Icons. 

• Canva is an easy-to-use design tool that is free. The templates and graphics make creating a banner easy. We made a video to show you how: Create a Banner on Canva. Heads up - Canva is not our software, so we can’t support it.

• Hot tip: Before you start designing, you will want to copy or jot down the dimensions for both the desktop banner and the mobile banner.

Site colors show up in several places - action buttons, navigation panels, and volunteer dashboards, to name a few. You can pick what colors you want to use on your site. We encourage you to use the established colors for United Way. If you have a marketing or branding team, you can check with them and they can provide your approved HEX codes.

Hot tips:

• Using branded colors give your volunteers a consistent experience on your site that is easy to view and can make things easy to find.

• But… changing up the colors now and then refreshes the site and prompts volunteers to look for what else might be new.

• Either way is fine. Choose the approach that’s best for you.

Banners & Icons 

Branding your site with color 

Branding and Color Codes 

Site Design Settings