Last verified: October 14, 2026
What You Can Now Do
Context Memo now lets you set a background color or style on the main site header navigation in your landing pages. The header that sits above every landing page you publish is no longer locked to its default appearance. Open any landing page in the builder and the header is now a styleable surface: solid fill, transparent over a hero, or a treatment that matches the rest of your page theme. The decision this changes is a small one you have probably been making around: you no longer have to design your landing page hero to work with a header you couldn't touch. Design the page you want, then style the header to match it.
Where It Is in Context Memo
The control lives in the landing page builder, inside theme and block settings for the Pages navigation header. Open a landing page, select the header, and the background options appear alongside the other header settings. Because the header is shared across your Pages, the setting applies at the theme level for that landing page design, so changing it once updates the header everywhere it renders in that design rather than page by page.
How to Use It
- Open the landing page builder for the page you want to change. The shared Pages navigation header renders at the top of the canvas.
- Select the header block. The theme and block settings panel opens with the header's available properties, now including background.
- Set a background color or style. Pick your brand fill for a solid header, or a transparent treatment if you want a full-bleed hero image to run behind the navigation. The canvas updates as you set it.
- Check the header against your hero content. Logo and navigation link colors need to stay legible on top of whatever background you chose. Adjust one or the other until the contrast holds.
- Preview the page before publishing, and check it at mobile width. The header is the first thing an AI crawler and a human visitor both encounter on the page, and a header that collapses into the hero at narrow widths is easy to miss on desktop.
- Publish. The new header background applies wherever that Pages design renders, including memos you publish on your own domain.
Why We Built It
Customers told us they were locked to a default header appearance on pages that were otherwise fully on-brand. That's a real cost. Landing pages and published memos sit on your own domain, which is the entire point of the own-domain publishing model: you own the authority, the bot traffic, and the citations. A page that reads as off-brand at the top undercuts that. Marketers were choosing between a design that matched their brand system and a header they could not change, and some were routing landing page work back to their main CMS to get around it. That's a slower path and it splits your published content across two systems.
What It Does Not Do Yet
This ships as background styling on the header, not a full header redesign surface. A few things stay as they are:
- Layout is unchanged. You're styling the background of the existing header structure, not repositioning the logo, changing navigation density, or adding new header elements.
- Link and logo color are separate settings. If your new background kills the contrast on your navigation links, you'll adjust those in their own controls. There's no automatic contrast correction.
- Scroll-state behavior is not exposed. You can't yet define one background for the header at rest and a different one after the visitor scrolls.
- It is not a CMS replacement. Context Memo's Pages builder is built for publishing citation-grade memos and landing pages on your domain. It is not a substitute for HubSpot or a full CMS, and it won't be soon. Those systems carry more functionality for complex site architecture, and we'd rather you keep them for that work.
One practical note on scope: styling controls like this matter most for brands that already have a web presence and a defined design system to match. If you're pre-launch with no domain authority yet, header background is not the lever that changes your AI visibility. Foundational content and domain authority come first. The design controls are there for when your published memos are competing on brand credibility as well as citation quality.
Changelog
October 14, 2026
Customize Header Phone Button, Logo Size, and Rail Width in Landing Pages. You can now customize additional header elements in your landing page builder, including a phone button, button color, large logo option, and wide rail layout. These controls appear in the theme panel alongside existing header background settings.
October 13, 2026
Custom Header Logo Link Destination. You can now set a custom destination URL for your site header logo in the landing page builder. When visitors click the logo, they'll be directed to the URL you specify instead of the default behavior.
