Adding a sign-up to your department's homepage

You can add a button in the About section of your department’s homepage on SF.gov for users to go anywhere. We’ve seen this used successfully to sign up for mailing lists.

To add the button, you must have the URL of the page where users can sign up for your mailing list. You can make a Mailchimp or a google form, if you need to!

Then you need to edit your homepage in Drupal.

Scroll down the page and open the drop-down menu for the About section.

Add a Call to action.

You will need:

• Title - this text will be in the white box. Be clear about what you want folks to do, and keep it short. You can use up to 80 characters, but the fewer words the more your readers are likely to take action.

• In the Button link section you will need to add:

  • Link URL - this is full URL for the page you want the button to link to.

  • Link text - words that show on the button. Keep it very, very short and start with a verb (it’s not called a Call to Action for nothin'). The character limit is 25, but try to keep it to 2 words, if you can. Sign up, Apply now, Learn more are good button links.