What are the University web templates?
The web templates are used for the University’s Drupal 7 websites, including cam.ac.uk. They are sometimes known by the name Project Light.
The Office of External Affairs and Communications and University Information Services created the templates in 2013.
They were built in response for the need to:
- allow our sites to be accessible from mobile devices
- update the look and feel of our sites
- align multiple sites which fall under the banner of the University to a consistent look and feel
Page components
The templates use a grid system. It’s possible to lay out components in custom configurations based on this grid system. For example, there are different ways to configure teasers on your site’s homepage.
The Project Light components include:
- a homepage carousel
- a section page carousel
- a section page banner
- tooltips
- calendar
- notifications
- stacking tabs
- teasers and variants
- listing items (for events listings and more)
- contextual search (for localised as opposed to global search)
- login form
- tables
Structural components
- Header
- Footer
- Global navigation
- Local navigation
- Breadcrumbs
- Page header inside content
- Typography
- Image handling
- Form elements
- List types
Visual style
The templates use the font Myriad Pro. This is a web-hosted font from Adobe Typekit.
Other key features include:
- Mega dropdown for the global site navigation
- Drop downs menus for the top-level local navigation
- Vertical side navigation for local sub menus
Choice of colour schemes:
- blue
- blue-grey
- turquoise
- purple
- green
- lime green
- orange
- red
- grey
Download the templates
The latest version of our web templates is available for University staff to download from Github.
If you have a Github account and would like download access to the templates go to https://github.com/cambridgeuniversity/Project-Light
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Get help
If you need help with your Drupal website, please contact the Drupal team via webmaster@admin.cam.ac.uk.
For support and guidance with your content, please visit the University Content Community SharePoint site.