Designing your website

Your website is where your customers see your photographs and buy them. You design it in the website builder, which shows your real site in the middle of the screen. Click anything on it to change it. Nothing you change is public until you publish.

Steps

1. Open Website. If you have no website yet, press Start my website.
2. Open the Design tab, or press Edit in the builder. The builder opens with your Home page.
3. Choose a page to work on from the Page list in the top bar. Desktop, Tablet and Phone show it at that size.
4. Click a section on the page to change it. Its settings open in the panel on the right. The panel's Design tab is how your whole site looks. Its Site tab has your menu and your store pages: how your Work page, your collections and each photograph's page look.
5. Make your changes. Each one is saved to your draft as you make it, and the page shows it straight away.
6. Press View site to see the saved draft in a new tab, then Publish when it looks right.

See Edit your site on the page for everything the builder does.

Choosing a look

On the builder's Design tab, under Looks, you can start from one of five looks: Gallery wall, Magazine, Cinema, Filmstrip or Contact sheet. A look sets your colours, fonts, type size, spacing, motion and the layout of your Home page in one step. You are shown what will change before anything does, and your own words and photographs are kept. You can then change any choice yourself. See Looks, fonts, colours and motion.

On the Style screen and in the old builder you can also start from a template (Minimal, Editorial or Cinematic), which sets your colours, fonts, headings, header, page width, spacing and corners but leaves your pages alone.

Good to know

• Undo and Redo in the top bar step back and forward through your changes. Ctrl+Z (or Cmd+Z on a Mac) works too, except while you are typing in a box.
• The builder needs a screen at least 768 pixels wide, such as a tablet or a laptop. On a phone it shows a page with Edit your home page, Change your style and Back to your website instead. The Simple editor on the Overview tab has the same screens: Home page, Style and Store, one screen at a time.
• Your customers choose sizes, see the price, use the basket and check out the same way whatever look, colours or fonts you choose.
• If your site was changed somewhere else, such as in another tab, the builder says so and lets you choose which version to keep.
• If you use the old builder, it has three tabs on the left (Sections, Style and Store), a Preview button, and needs a screen at least 1,024 pixels wide. Use the new builder takes you back.