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 admin panel. This article explains what you can change yourself, what requires a ticket, and how to request a theme update.
💡 Quick answer: if you want to change a font, a site-wide color, or how the header/footer look, that's a theme change — open a ticket via Eddy. If you want to change which images, links, or content appear on your homepage, that's a content change you can usually do yourself.
What you can change yourself
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 you're editing the content of an individual page, the block editor offers a color picker for text and inline elements within that block. This is a per-block, per-page setting (it doesn't change your site-wide theme colors).
💡 Two color surfaces, two outcomes: the block-level color picker inside a page's Content block lets you style individual text and elements for that block only. Your site-wide colors (header, footer, buttons, links, theme accents) live in the theme and require an Eddy ticket to change — see below.
What requires a theme change (open an Eddy ticket)
These elements are part of your site's theme and can't be edited from the admin panel. To change them, open a support ticket via Eddy:
Site fonts — the typeface used across the entire site (body text, headings, navigation). Edlio can swap to a different font from the available theme catalog.
Site-wide color palette — primary brand color, accent colors, button colors, header/footer backgrounds.
Side-column or sidebar colors on pages.
Header layout — adding, removing, or rearranging elements like the logo, search bar, or top-bar links.
Footer layout — the structure of the footer (which doesn't include link/text content you can edit yourself).
Site logo or header image — see Update your site logo and header image.
Disabling the header entirely on certain pages, or changing the navigation bar style.
How to request a theme change
Open a support ticket through Eddy, Edlio's AI support assistant. In your ticket, include:
Your school or district name and website URL
What you want changed (e.g. "change the body font to something more modern" or "change the primary button color from green to navy")
If you have a specific color or font in mind, include the name or hex code (e.g.
#003366)Any reference URLs showing the style you want to match (your own previous site, a sister school, etc.)
Where the change should apply: site-wide, or only on certain pages?
For the full Eddy walkthrough, see How to submit a support ticket via Eddy.
⚠ Theme changes affect your whole site. Once Edlio updates your theme, the new fonts or colors apply everywhere — not just the homepage. Plan your request carefully and let your team know before submitting so there are no surprises.
A note on color and accessibility
When you request color changes, keep accessibility in mind: text needs sufficient contrast against its background for visitors with low vision. Edlio's design team checks every theme change against WCAG 2.1 AA contrast standards, but you can also review the basics in Choose accessible colors.