---
title: "Your site and your community's brand"
url: "https://mycommunitysync.com/your-site-and-your-brand"
community: "CommunitySync"
description: "What you control on your own site, what comes from the community, and how to make sure your own name and details are right."
updated: "2026-08-13T11:28:38.772+00:00"
---

# Your site and your community's brand

*My Website*

Your personal site sits **under your community's brand**. Knowing which parts are
yours saves a lot of hunting for controls that aren't there.

## What comes from your community

- **Brand colours** — the accent colour on buttons, links and highlights.
- **The logo** in the header.
- **The community name**, which appears after your page title in the browser tab and
  when someone shares a link.
- The organisation details search engines read.

You can't change these from your site, and the **Nav & footer** panel's logo control
links to a Branding page only community admins can open. If the branding is wrong,
that's a conversation with your community admin — and fixing it there fixes it
everywhere at once.

## What's yours

- Every **page** and every **section** on it.
- All the **words and images**.
- The **theme** — five presets, plus finer controls for fonts, corners, spacing and
  width, in **Site settings**.
- Your **navigation menu** and **footer** — including your own name, title and social
  links.

That's plenty of room to look distinct while still reading as part of the community.

## Check your name in the header and footer

![A published About page](https://iaktsmonietvbikzietg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/site-assets/kb/mw-public-about.png "Your name, title and photo are filled in from your profile when the site is created.")

When you create a site from a starter, your **name**, **title** and **company** are
filled in automatically from your profile — in the header, in the footer and in the
copyright line.

Look at those three spots on your first visit. If your profile was incomplete when you
created the site, they'll read oddly — a missing job title leaves a gap, and a blank
name leaves a bare copyright line.

To fix it:

1. Update your details in **Account Settings** so future sites are right.
2. Then correct this site directly: open the editor, go to **Nav & footer**, and edit
   the brand text, tagline and copyright by hand.

Updating your profile does **not** rewrite a site you've already created.

## The footer is shared, and it goes live instantly

![The Nav and footer panel](https://iaktsmonietvbikzietg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/site-assets/kb/mw-nav-footer.png "Nav & footer is written once and appears on every page — and saving it goes live immediately.")

Your **nav bar and footer are written once** and appear on every page — they're not
per-page sections.

They also behave differently from page content: **saving the Nav & footer panel takes
effect on your live site straight away**, with no separate publish step. There's no
draft stage, so don't use that panel to park half-finished ideas.

## Social links

Add your own profiles in **Nav & footer → Footer → Social links**. Only networks with
a URL show an icon, so leave the rest blank rather than filling them with a placeholder.

Point them at your actual profile pages. A link to a network's home page rather than
your profile looks like an oversight to anyone who clicks it.

### My Website

- [Your personal website — what it is and how it works](https://mycommunitysync.com/my-website-overview.md)
- [Claim your web address](https://mycommunitysync.com/claim-your-web-address.md)
- [Create your site from a starter](https://mycommunitysync.com/create-your-site-from-a-starter.md)
- [Edit your site](https://mycommunitysync.com/edit-your-site.md)
- [Publish your site (and the two different Publish buttons)](https://mycommunitysync.com/publish-your-site.md)
- [Manage your three sites](https://mycommunitysync.com/manage-your-three-sites.md)
- [Show your listings on your site](https://mycommunitysync.com/show-your-listings.md)
- [Where enquiries from your site go](https://mycommunitysync.com/where-your-leads-go.md)
- [Why isn't my site showing?](https://mycommunitysync.com/my-website-troubleshooting.md)