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You will need this information when you wish to add an image to your cover page.

What is the Social Icons tile?

The social icons tile, allows you to add in social media icons to advertise to users that they can follow you on your chosen social media channels.

Populating a Social Icons tile:

  1. Firstly, you will have needed to add the Social icons tile when creating the layout of the cover page.
  2. When you navigate to the 'Compose' view, you will be able to hover over the social icons tile and then click edit.
  3. You will see a pop up for you to edit the tile and define the following:
    1. 'Follow icons title' 
      1. This is a title that will appear above the icons if you wish to show one.
        1. You will see a 'Following buttons' field that is a table. Simply put in the URL's of the services that you wish to link to, one per line, as demonstrated below (don't forget the 'http://'):
          2. There are limiting set of URLs that are recognised by the system and turn into appropriate icons e.g., Facebook, Twitter, GooglePlus, YouTube. If the link is not recognised the 'B' (blog) icon is provided. Please contact the Help desk if you wish to request a new icon is accepted.
        2. You can use the arrows on the right of the form to reorder how the social icons will appear on your website.
    2. Save the tile.

Changing the Social icons showing in the tile:

  1. To change the icons, simply edit the tile and add or remove items from the table.

Removing the Social icons tile:

  1. If you wish to remove the Social icons tile, navigate to the 'Layout' view of the cover page, and click 'x' in the top left of the tile. When deleting a tile, the tile you are selecting has a red border.

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