The University of Minnesota’s Brand Policy requires that all websites on the umn.edu domain include an approved web header and footer. (Not included in this requirement are umn.edu personal websites hosted by the University.)
The web header and footer, as well as the umn.edu domain, may only be used by a campus, college, unit, department, or center to conduct official University business. Header and footer code is available in the following:
There are two approved versions of the web headers, one with a maroon background and one with gold.
View the required footer elements
If you have questions or comments about using the header and footer, please contact urweb@umn.edu.
GitHub
Official, approved University web headers and footers are available on GitHub. If you are unsure of how to use GitHub or compile Sass to CSS, you may want to have Template Builder write and compile your code.
See Web Requirements before making any alterations to the header and footer.
Drupal and Drupal Lite
All versions of the official web headers and footers are available in both Drupal and Drupal Lite.
If you have questions about the use of the headers and footers in Drupal or need assistance updating your theme, please contact ucm@umn.edu. See Web Requirements before making any alterations to the header and footer.
Template Builder (Retired)
The previous version of the template builder for compiling the official University web header and footer files is retired. Official, approved University web headers and footers are available on GitHub. If you are unsure of how to use GitHub or compile Sass to CSS, please email urweb@umn.edu for assistance.
See Web Requirements before making any alterations to the header and footer.