Tutorial step 9 – Edit the footer

The footer is an element displayed at the bottom of every page in your marketplace website (except the search page, if you're using a map layout). It typically contains lots of links that help your users navigate your marketplace, as well as links to additional destinations, like your social media profiles.

Let's start editing by navigating to "Content → Footer".

The footer has a special left column that contains predetermined content: your logo, slogan, social media links, and copyright statement. In addition, you can add 1-4 content columns to the right of the special column.

1. Slogan

The footer has two specific place for "Slogan" as it's a common convention in footers. Slogan is a one liner describing the essence of your marketplace.

Write “The largest online marketplace for bike rentals.”

2. Social media links

We want to link to our awesome social media profile. Let's start by removing all the existing social media links. Then, add a social media link by clicking “+ Add a new social media link” : Select Facebook as a platform from the dropdown menu. Add this url as the Link URL: https://facebook.com/sharetribe

3. Copyright

Copyright statement is another common footer convention, so a specific space has been reserved for it in the footer too. Copyright states that you reserve the rights to the material on your website.

Write “© Biketribe"

4. Columns and Content blocks

Content columns contain Content blocks that work a lot like Content blocks in Pages. However, they have less options. They only have Block ID and Block text.

You can format block text with markdown to add links, bolding, and other rich text.

We're going to repurpose the content columns for the purposes of this tutorial, as they work quite well for us.

Open the "general" block. You notice that it has three links. Two of them have a mention of the word "listing". Change this to "bike".

"terms" can stay as is.

Save changes.

Next: start testing your marketplace – and build your own!

We're done with the setup! It's time to start using your bike marketplace. Click "View your marketplace" on the top left in the sidebar and start browsing your site. You can try signing up as a new user, creating some listings, and then signing up as another user, doing a search, and making a booking.

Now that you've learned how to build a marketplace with Sharetribe, you can start building your own! Once you're happy with it, you can publish it in your own domain and launch it to real users. Learn more about the process of launching your marketplace

Is there a change you'd like to make to your marketplace that doesn't seem to be possible with the methods you learned in the tutorial? Send us a message using the widget at the bottom right corner of Console and let us know what you'd like to do. Our team will help you move forward.

If you'd like to customize and extend your marketplace beyond what is possible without coding, it's possible for you to get any features or design changes added with custom coding. The New Sharetribe is built on top of a powerful developer platform, which means there's no limit to how much you can customize your marketplace. If you'd like to learn more about this process, we encourage you to book a free call with one of our team members to discuss your requirements. Alternatively you can reach out to a verified Sharetribe developer directly in via the Expert directory, or, if you know a developer you'd like to work with, invite them to your marketplace and point them to the Developer tutorial.