More ways to build your site

Your website has more things to build with. You can add a slideshow, a video, a list of questions and answers, a price list and an announcement bar. Every section can have its own background and spacing. You can duplicate a section or copy it to another page. You can add up to 20 pages of your own, with up to 20 sections on each.

Add the new sections

Open the website builder (the Design tab of Website), choose a page, then press Add a section here where you want the section.

• Slideshow. Up to 12 photographs, from ones you pick or from one collection. Visitors move it with the arrows, the dots, the left and right keys or a swipe. Timing is Off unless you choose every 4, 6 or 8 seconds. It stops when a visitor moves it, and there is a Pause button whenever it is moving. It does not move for visitors who have asked their device for less motion.
• Video. Paste a YouTube or Vimeo link. The visitor sees a tile, and the video only loads when they press play. You can choose one of your photographs as the Poster photograph, and add a caption. Only YouTube and Vimeo links work.
• Questions and answers. Up to 12 questions. Each answer opens when a visitor presses its question.
• Price list. Up to 12 rows, each with a name, a few words and a price you type, such as From $450. It has an optional button. It is words only: it does not sell anything.
• Photo grid. A grid now has a Masonry style, where photographs keep their own shapes in columns.

Backgrounds and spacing

Every section has a Background and Spacing setting. The background is Default, Soft, Accent tint or Inverse. The colours come from your site's colour scheme, and the words on top always stay easy to read. Spacing is Same as the site, Compact, Comfortable or Airy.

Duplicate a section, or copy it to another page

• Duplicate section puts a copy straight after the section. In the builder it is on the chosen section's buttons, and Duplicate is on its row in the list of sections at the left.
• Copy to page puts a copy at the end of the page you choose. In the builder it is at the foot of the section's settings.
• On a page's own screen (the Simple editor), each section has Duplicate and Copy to page.
• A page can only have one Hero, so a Hero cannot be duplicated, and it cannot be copied to a page that already has one.
• A page that is full cannot take another section.
• In the builder, Undo takes a duplicate or a copy back.

The announcement bar

The announcement bar is one short message across the top of every page of your site, such as a sale or your Christmas dates. Open Website, then the Details tab, then Announcement bar. It is also on the website builder's Site tab. Tick Show the announcement bar, type up to 140 characters, and add a button if you like. A visitor can close it for their visit. New words show it again. It is not shown on the basket or checkout pages.

Your own site icon

Your site icon is the small picture in a browser tab and on a phone's home screen.

1. Open Photographs, then the Logo and portrait tab, and add a PNG or JPEG, ideally square, that is at least 180 pixels on its shorter side.
2. Open Website, then the Details tab, and choose it under Site icon (optional). You can also choose it under Site icon on the website builder's Site tab.
3. Publish your site.

A picture that is not square is cropped to a square from its centre. Without an icon, your site shows its first letter. A new icon can take up to an hour to show, because browsers keep tab icons for a while.

Old addresses keep working

When you change a page's address and publish, the old address still takes visitors to the page. Those old addresses are listed under Old addresses that still lead here on the page's screen, each with a Remove button. A removed old address can keep working for up to five minutes before it stops. Changing your whole site's address is different: the old one stops working straight away.

Good to know

• Your menu still shows up to 9 items. If you add a page when the menu is full, the page is added to the menu hidden, and the page says so. Hide another item on the Menu screen to show it.
• Only visitors who press play are sent to YouTube or Vimeo. Until they do, nothing is loaded from either.
• Everything you change is saved to your draft. Visitors see it once you publish.