Customizing Your AwardSpring Site

This article covers how to customize the logo, colors, messages and footer of your AwardSpring site. For what applicants see on their dashboard, see Student Dashboard.

You can customize certain parts of your website. To do so, click Settings, then Appearance.

The Logo section lets you upload a logo, which appears at the top of your site. The maximum dimensions (360px by 80px) and acceptable formats (SVG, JPG, GIF, PNG) are listed in the boxed Specifications panel. To replace your current logo, click Add Different Logo. Use View Logo to see it or Remove Logo to delete it.

Your brand color is applied to Student Dashboard widgets. Brand color is set to Default (the AwardSpring colors) until you choose your own.

To use your own color, select Set brand color. Use the Contrast Preview to see how the color looks with text on the student dashboard. Choose a darker shade, such as navy blue (#000080) or dark green (#013220), so text stays readable, and avoid light colors.

After you select Set brand color, click the Contrast Preview bar to choose your color. In the color picker, click the arrows next to the color values to switch between RGB, HSL, and HEX.

To use the same color for announcement headings in the notification bell, select Also use this color for announcement headings in the notification bell.

Applicants see the brand color on their dashboard.

By default, the Last Scholarship Closing Date option is selected, and AwardSpring posts the last scholarship closing date on applicant dashboards to reflect the application deadline. To communicate something else, such as separate early and regular deadlines, you can write a custom message.

Select Custom Text, and a text box appears below it. Enter your message in that box.

In the Student Dashboard Message section, use the editor to write a message for your student dashboard. The toolbar above the box lets you format the text and add links.

Use the Donor List Banner Text editor to write the banner message for your donor list. It has the same formatting toolbar.

You can add a link to the footer of your AwardSpring site. Select the Enable Link checkbox to make the footer visible, and fill out Text to Display and URL.

Homepage text lets you include a brief message to applicants, such as deadline dates or contact information. In the HomePage section, enter your message in the box under Change the text on your homepage. The limit is 300 characters, and a counter shows how many are left. If you leave the box blank, nothing appears.

Below the text box, click Upload New Image to add a homepage image. The maximum dimensions are 940px by 660px (W x H), and the acceptable formats are SVG, JPG, GIF and PNG. If you leave this blank, the default image appears.

The homepage text is displayed in a gray bar above the sign-in box.

In the Texting Opt-In section, select Enable Texting Opt-in Notification to ask students to confirm that they want to receive communications from your organization. You can also enter additional language explaining why they are asked to consent to SMS messages.

Changes on this page are not applied until you save them. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save.