Header, navigation & footer
The frame around every storefront page: four screens covering what appears in the top bar, what it links to, the band above content, and the footer.
Admin → Header · Navigation · Sub-header · Footer
Four screens, one frame
| Screen | Controls |
|---|---|
| Header | Which of the nine top-bar elements render, plus the announcement band. |
| Navigation | The menu itself — columns of links you build. |
| Sub-header | The band above pages and blog posts. |
| Footer | Its five bands, the links, the socials and the small print. |
Header
Nine elements, one switch each. Every one ships on, so an untouched install has the full header and switching one off simply stops it rendering.
| Element | Switch it off when |
|---|---|
| Delivery / Pickup toggle | You only do one of them. Offering a choice with one option looks broken. |
| Location picker | You serve one area, or you do not use location at all. |
| Search | You have few enough restaurants that browsing beats searching. |
| Cuisines menu | Your cuisine list is thin — see Classifications. |
| Order Now | Your homepage already leads with ordering. |
| Cart | Rarely. Only makes sense on a browse-only site. |
| Account | Rarely, and never if customers have accounts — it is how they reach their orders. |
| Notifications | You would rather not draw attention to an empty bell early on. |
| Language | You publish in one language — see Languages. |
The Pages mega-menu is not on this screen. Its switch lives on the Navigation screen beside the menu it opens, so the whole decision stays in one place.
The announcement band
A strip across the very top for a notice — a launch, a closure, a promotion. Unlike the nine elements it ships off, deliberately: an update should never grow a bar across the top of a storefront that is already trading.
Its switch and its words are saved together because they are one decision. The words are content, so they are written per language, and the link accepts a web address, a mail address or a telephone number — anything else is refused rather than published.
Navigation
The menu is built, not fixed: columns of links you arrange yourself. Without this, a page you create under Pages would have no way of reaching your own visitors.
Building it
- Up to 6 columns, each with a heading and up to 15 links.
- Each column offers one blank row ready to fill; Add link gives you more.
- Each link carries an icon and points at one of four things.
| Link points at | Chosen from |
|---|---|
| A page | Your published pages. Drafts are not offered — a menu link to a draft is a dead end. |
| A blog post | Your published posts. |
| A built-in destination | The storefront's own addresses — cuisines, find location, the layouts. |
| An address of your own | Anything you type, including somewhere off your site. |
The menu also carries a call-to-action at its foot, with its own wording and icon.
The mega-menu switch and label
Whether the built menu opens as a Pages mega-menu, and what that menu is called, are set here. The label is capped at 30 characters — a header button, not a sentence.
Sub-header
The band that sits above the content on a page or a blog post — the one carrying the title and breadcrumbs. Two independent decisions.
Which style each content type uses
| Content type | Ships as | Options |
|---|---|---|
| Pages | Classic | Classic, Modern, Hidden |
| Blog posts | Modern | Classic, Modern, Hidden |
They are set separately, so posts can carry a photographic band while pages stay plain. Hidden removes the band entirely and the content starts at the top.
Per-style options
Classic and Modern each have their own settings, so changing one never disturbs the other:
- Breadcrumbs — show the trail back up.
- Description — show the page's own description under its title.
- Background — none, an image, or an MP4 video. The image and the video are stored independently: setting one never clears the other, and the type dropdown decides which is live. So you can trial a video and drop back to the image without re-uploading it.
Footer
Five switches: a master one for the whole footer, and one for each band.
| Band | Holds |
|---|---|
| Benefits | The short trust strip — delivery, payment, support. Written per language. |
| Gallery | The "from our kitchens" photo strip. Ships with bundled dish photographs; replace them with your own, up to 30. |
| Columns | The link columns — where your pages belong. |
| Bottom | Copyright and the closing line. |
Also here: the footer's own paragraph and copyright line — both auto-generated from your site name if you leave them blank — your social profiles, and App Store and Play Store addresses if you have apps.
The footer is where obligations live
Your privacy policy and terms belong in the columns, linked from every page. Payment providers ask for those addresses when you apply for an account, and the product refuses to let either page be unpublished for exactly that reason — see Pages and GDPR & privacy.
When it doesn't work
A navigation link 404s
It points at a page that was deleted, or at a typed address with a mistake in it. Published pages and posts are picked from a list precisely so this cannot happen — a link that breaks is almost always a typed one.
I switched an element off and it is still there
Check you are looking at the storefront rather than a dashboard, and that you saved. The header screen saves all nine switches at once, so a half-finished edit is never partly applied.
The announcement band will not show
It ships off. Switch it on at Admin → Header, in the announcement band section. If it is on and still blank, its words have not been written in the language you are viewing the storefront in — they are set on that same screen, one language at a time.
The sub-header background video does not play
At Admin → Sub-header, set that style’s Background type to video. Both files stay stored, so nothing was lost — only the type decides which one draws.
The footer gallery shows dishes I do not sell
Those are the bundled defaults, shown until you save a gallery of your own. Replace them at Admin → Footer, in the gallery section, or switch that band off on the same screen.