# The header, footer and global bars

The rows that appear on every page, and how to edit them once.

For: Everyone editing a site

## What belongs to every page

Above the pages in the Navigator sit four fixed rows: Announcement bar, Bar above the header, Header and Footer. They appear on every page of the website because they exist once, outside the page content.

Click any of them, on the canvas or in the Navigator, to edit that row. The header carries the logo and menu; the footer carries contact details, hours and links. A change to either appears the moment any page is published.

Walkthrough: The four rows that belong to every page (The Navigator)

1. **Above the pages**: The announcement bar, the bar above the header, the header and the footer exist once, outside the page content.
2. **The announcement bar**: A thin strip above everything for a line like "Free quotes this month". It starts hidden.
3. **The header**: Logo, menu and an optional button. A change here appears on every page at the next publish.
4. **The footer**: Contact details, hours and the pages that did not earn a menu place. Where people look when they cannot find something.

1. Open the Navigator and click Header.
2. Select the logo or a menu item to change it.
3. Publish to put the change everywhere at once.

## The header, logo and menu

The header holds the logo, the menu, an optional button, and style choices such as whether it stays fixed when scrolling. The menu is built from your pages, so adding a page to the menu or renaming it happens on the page itself, not here.

The announcement bar is a thin strip above everything, for a line like "Free quotes this month". It starts hidden; switch it on when there is something genuinely worth saying, and switch it off again.

Walkthrough: Editing the header (Editing the header)

1. **The logo**: A transparent PNG or SVG sits best on a coloured header. Choose one file that works small.
2. **The menu**: Built from your pages. Adding or renaming a menu item happens on the page itself.
3. **The style**: Solid, outline or soft buttons, and whether the header stays fixed when a visitor scrolls.

Note: The bar above the header is a second, quieter strip for things like opening hours. Most sites use one strip or none.

## The footer

The footer is where people look when they cannot find something: address, phone, email, opening hours, social links and the pages that did not earn a place in the menu. It also carries the small print, with the cookie notice link.

Business details typed into the footer here are separate from the business details used by search engines, which live on the SEO tab. Keep the visible ones accurate; the search ones only feed robots and AI assistants.

- [ ] The phone number is right and tappable on phones
- [ ] The email goes somewhere monitored
- [ ] Social links point at live profiles
- [ ] Nothing about a plan or a to-do list is left in the footer

## Can one page have a different header?

No. One header and one footer serve the whole website, which is what keeps a site feeling like one place.

## Where does the cookie notice live?

It is a global row like the others. Cookie settings apply across the site and are shown automatically when a visitor first arrives.

## Related guides

- [Edit the menu](/help/pages-and-menu/edit-the-menu)
- [Logo and site icon](/help/brand-and-design/logo-and-site-icon)
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