Your school website's overall look — the fonts, the color palette, the header, the footer — is set by your theme. The theme is configured by Edlio when your site is set up and is not directly editable from the standard admin panel settings. This article explains what you can change yourself, how the new Design Agent assists Early Access schools, and what requires an Eddy support ticket.
💡 Best-Practice Adoption Tip — Design Agent Availability: The Edlio Design Agent is available for homepage edits as Early Access—contact [email protected] for details or access. If Design Agent is active on your CMS dashboard, you can request homepage visual updates, adjust brand colors, and restyle theme sections conversationally without opening a support ticket! For sites without the Design Agent, theme-baked color and logo changes continue to be handled via Technical Support tickets through Eddy.
💡 Quick answer: If you want to change which photos, videos, links, or news stories appear on your homepage, that is a content change you can do yourself in the CMS. If you want to change site fonts, site-wide color palettes, or header structures, you can either use the Design Agent (for Early Access sites) or submit a theme change ticket to Technical Support via Eddy.
What you can change yourself in the CMS
Hero images and Shuffles — see Shuffles Overview.
Featured Video on the homepage — see Make a video featured.
Spotlight Messages (the temporary alert bar at the top of the homepage).
News and event content.
Homepage widgets — the Button widget ("Sign up for…") and Form widget ("Join our newsletter") overlays. See Homepage Widgets Overview.
Links in the header and footer (Useful Links, Quicklinks, social icons) — added and reordered in the Links area of the admin.
Page content — text, images, blocks, and layouts on individual pages.
Block-level colors inside page Content blocks — when editing an individual page, the block editor offers a color picker for text and inline elements within that block.
Customizing theme visuals with the Design Agent
For schools with the Design Agent active in the CMS dashboard, making visual adjustments to your homepage layout and color palette is interactive and self-serve:
Point at what to change (Target tool): Click the Target button, then click any component on the live homepage preview (such as a header banner, section menu, or footer). The element highlights and attaches to your prompt so the agent modifies that exact section.
Share reference images: Click the Image button or drag and drop a design mockup (PNG, JPEG, GIF, or WebP up to 25 MB) into the conversation to show the agent the exact aesthetic or palette you want to match.
Suggested color swatches: When exploring palette updates, the Design Agent presents up to three interactive color swatches beneath its response. Click any swatch to immediately apply that shade to your preview.
Session safety: Your progress is preserved automatically. If network interruptions occur, the Design Agent offers a Try Again recovery option so your styling work is not lost.
Standard theme change requests (open an Eddy ticket)
If your school does not have the Design Agent active, theme-level modifications are handled by Edlio Technical Support:
Site fonts: Typeface used across the entire site (body text, headings, navigation).
Site logo and color palette: Primary brand colors, secondary accents, button colors, and navigation backgrounds.
Embedded Instagram feeds: Connecting or modifying live social media grid feeds on the homepage.
Header and footer structure: Rearranging theme-baked elements, search bar placement, or accreditation crests.
How to request a theme change via Eddy
Open a support ticket through Eddy, Edlio's AI support assistant (located in the bottom right corner of your admin dashboard). In your ticket, include:
Your school or district name and website URL.
Specific description of the requested update (e.g., "Update primary button color to match new district branding #003366").
Hex color codes or attached brand guideline files.
A note on color and accessibility
Whether using the Design Agent or submitting an Eddy ticket, all color selections must comply with digital accessibility standards. Text must maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 against its background under WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines. See Choose accessible colors for contrast recommendations.
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