Damascus free theme offers new navigation and site name options

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May 5, 2021

by Diane Kern
May 5, 2021 by

Diane Kern

Give your website a stroke of style and some new function.

Damascus is the latest free theme available for your eCatholic website. Featuring clean modern fonts and subtle styling effects, this new design is a perfect way to hit refresh and update all of your website content. Plus, with all-new header and site navigation options, it will make sure your organization’s name is right where it should be when welcoming online guests to your digital front doors.
How to update your eCatholic website's design

The Damascus theme is now available in the eCatholic Design Studio! If you have an eCatholic website hosting package, you can update your site's design to Damascus (or any of our other free themes) in just a few clicks! Then, customize the Damascus theme with unique style, imagery, and your very own content.

Time for a more substantial update? We're here to help! Here are two ways to start:
1. DIY Homepage Makeover - Get full instructions on how to redesign your homepage yourself. With eCatholic, it's fun and easy!
2. Homepage Makeover Service - Short on time? Feel like you don't have the assets you need? Let our team do the work for you with a quick homepage makeover.
See what’s new with Damascus

1

New style for navigation and menus

Damascus veers away from the traditional horizontal navigation bar and replaces it with vertical navigation. This feature displays your interior page menus every time a user selects the stacked lines icon in the upper corner of your website. Your menus will remain hidden until the icon is selected and subpages appear as menu categories are expanded.

Similar to how all eCatholic mobile site menus appear, the vertical navigation offers the same user experience on every viewing device. This vertical menu concept offers another way to provide a clean appearance atop all your website content.

Damascus design example: Collapsible side navigation looks fresh on desktop, tablet, and mobile views.

2

Moveable organization name in header

The header region is an essential area as it prominently positions your brand as the first item that welcomes visitors. The Damascus theme allows you to change the position of your site name between left, centered, or right alignments from within your header setting options. When selecting your site name's position, your vertical menu icon and quick links will automatically adjust to places that make the most sense for their purpose.

Damascus design example: Moveable site name gives you options on how to position your organization name and logo.

3

Strokes of design offer the perfect visual flair

One of Damascus’ major design elements is the large brush stroke design underneath the homepage feature region, all interior page titles, above the footer region, and as a styling option for sections. This subtle touch, spanning edge to edge on your screen, draws visitors’ attention to the content below and ties together all major elements between the header and footer.

Damascus design example: A theme signature brush stroke effect offers a touch of style to pages and sections.

What do you love about Damascus?

See what you can create with Damascus' new features and function. Go ahead and test it out for your website. Or sign up for a free 30-day eCatholic trial today!