After installing Helix Ultimate, you need to configure some basic settings. You’ll find them in this post.
1. Logo
You can set / upload your logo (it can be an image or text). You can also adjust the logo height and add SVG logos to your site, since Helix Ultimate supports them.
2. Header
You can choose the header height and decide whether the header will be sticky or not.
3. Body
- Turn your Joomla website preloader on or off.
- Switch between boxed and wide site layouts. You will get several other relevant options such as background size, background image, background position, etc. when you turn on the boxed layout option.
4. Footer
- Turn on the “Copyright” option if you want to show a copyright notice on your website footer.
- Select the appropriate module position for the copyright notice.
- In the Feature Position menu, you can choose the ordering to show features along with the copyright notice module.
- Enter the footer copyright text.
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5. Go to Top
In the bottom-right area, you’ll see the “Go to Up / Top” button. When you turn it on, your visitors can scroll back to the top of the page with just a click. This gives your Joomla website better navigation.
6. Social Icons
If you want to display social media profile links on your Joomla website, you can turn on this option and add social media profile links.
7. Contact Info
Want to display your contact information? Just turn on this feature. It will show the information fields and module positions selection menu.
8. Coming Soon
If you want to display a customized maintenance mode page when your website is under construction, turn on the “Enable Coming Soon” option.
It allows you to add a page title, page content (you can define font colors by using HTML tags with CSS code inside “style”), a date, or a background image.
Turn on “Social Icons” option if you want to display social media profile links.
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9. Error Page
Create a custom page that will display on your Joomla website when your site encounters an error. To do it, use the Error Page option and just add a custom background image and a logo for your custom page.
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