A Deeper Dive into Branding in Bridge
A comprehensive guide to managing content branding can be found on our community page here.
If you need some extra notes on dimensions and content branding images, this is your guide. Media that is too high resolution can cause lags in page uploads.
The first option is to utilize an image with a horizontal edge of around 1500px. You want to keep this under 3000px to enhance page load speeds.
If you are choosing the “Fit to Screen” option, use an image with ratio 5x1 (examples: 2560x512, 2000x400, 2500x500, 1920x384, etc).
For the “Fill Screen” option, use an image with ratio 4x1 (examples: 2560x640, 2000x500, 2500x625, 1920x480, etc).
You will toggle on the brand logo with either the primary or reverse logos.
The logos should be around 800px on their longest edge.
For this particular example, the pink smoke image is 2000x400.
The “Sleigh” logo measures 800x200.
It will show in the UI as this:
If you want more control over the size of the logo or different text on the background image, you’ll need to create that in a program like Adobe or Canva. Readable content inside the image should be put as centralized as possible (vertically and horizontally). Use “Fit to Screen” if you don’t want the image to be cut off horizontally on mobile screen sizes.
In this example, we use Canva to make a vertical image that is 800x1600 with the logo centered horizontally and vertically.
When uploaded into Custom Branding, you will then turn off the toggle to expose the logo.
It will show in the UI as this:
Similar behaviors can be duplicated for the Learning Library header.
Using Canva again, we took a high resolution image and converted it to an image size of 2000x1000.
We recommend placing the logo (or any other desired text) on the background image in a program like Adobe or Canva as it does seem to accommodate better to changing screen sizes.
You will then want to toggle the logo off.
You will also need to toggle the Custom Title on; however, you will not add any text in the free text space. If you keep it toggled off, as well, please note that it will default to placing the word “Learning” at the top of the Learning Library page in a branded color of font.
The Custom Branding Page for the Learning Header should look like this:
This is how it shows in the UI:
If you want to seize branding opportunities with content, we recommend Category images and Course cover slides. We do not recommend putting text on these images because Category and Course titles do overlay on them. We also recommend keeping the size to 1000px maximum on the horizontal edge to keep page load speeds to a minimum.
Category images can be added through Admin > Learning > Manage Categories and clicking on the image icon on the top right-hand corner. If you download a high resolution image from the Internet, again, use a program like Canva to decrease the image size.
These will show in the UI like this with a dark overlay to increase the visibility of the white font (regardless of a user choosing dark mode):
A course can get a cover slide by clicking on the down arrow on the blue bar that reads “Add Content” in the top left-hand corner of the course creation page. Select “Add Cover Slide” option.
Once selected, you will have a few different options when adding the slide, customizing the intro, and leveraging the primary or reverse logos:
Once published, it will appear like this in the UI:
For more details on managing content inside of Bridge, please see our best practice guide called How should I organize content for learners?