# How to customize your venue homepage
You can customize your venue homepage using Markdown. All Markdown should be validated to ensure that it will not break the layout of the page:
### For Conference Workflow Venues:
Many properties can be modified using the Group Content tab of your venue's workflow page: [https://openreview.net/group/edit?id=Your/Venue/ID#groupContent](https://openreview.net/group/edit?id=HCAL/2026/Call_for_Chapters#groupContent). Here you can use the `Edit` button to update properties of the venue including the Venue URL, location, and start date, among others.
To add additional custom text to your venue, go to the UI Code tab of the same page [https://openreview.net/group/edit?id=Your/Venue/ID#groupUICode](https://openreview.net/group/edit?id=HCAL/2026/Call_for_Chapters#groupUICode) and edit the instruction variables to include a custom markdown string in the format `"instructions": "Your Markdown String"` .
### For Request Form Venues:
Go to your homepage
1. Click on "Edit Group" button above the title of the venue.
2. Scroll down to "Group Content", click to open the edit box and find the field "instructions".
3. In the "value", you can include your instructions in markdown or html as a string.
View of the Group Content edit box, highlighting the instructions field
Markdown example, to customize:
```
"# Important Dates\n
- Submission Deadline: Sept 11, 2021 11:59pm AOE\n
- Author Response Period: Oct 11, 2021 - Oct 18, 2021\n
- Decision Notification: Nov 1, 2021\n
- Camera Ready: Nov 15, 2021\n\n
# Submission Format\n
- Proceedings track: 8 pages. Findings (extended abstract) track: 4 pages. Excluding references and appendices.\n
- Submissions must be anonymous for the double-blind review process\n
- Latex template: [Proceedings](https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/proceedings-template/trtrvjxchjdw) or [Findings](https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/ml4h-2024-findings-template/vkvrxcgdkcmn)"
```
which will be displayed as:
---
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