Choosing the appropriate design is an important step in setting up your online presence. Having this mind, you have the option to change or modify your design at any given time, via the Design tab, from the left menu.
Templates
Under the Templates category, accessible via the Design tab, you can preview all available designs that you can chose from. Selecting one, would load a preview screen, over the body of your current design. Via the Live Preview button, you can review an existing account, using the same design, in a new browser tab. Once ready, click the Choose button to apply the design.
An important note would be that changing the template, with having made just a few changes to your initially created website, would result in applying the chosen template and all content that you have manually added, will be moved to the Clipboard.
In case you proceed with changing your design, while there have been more than a few changes applied to it, we will apply only the design and its layout, while preserving the content as it is.
Colour Schemes
The Colour Scheme allows you to change the colour palette of your website. Update the current Logo text, page Titles and Menu Text with one of the choices. Click Reset to return to the stock appearance or Save to apply the change.
Fonts
You can customise your Fonts even further. This includes your Page Titles as well as the text used across your site in the Text and Image editors. There are a number of fonts available to choose from with the option to apply additional properties.
The Fonts (Main) category is used to adjust the properties for standard fonts: Defaults, Plain Small, Plain and Plain Large, while the Fonts (Titles) category refers to the larger font styles: Banner, Heading 1, Heading 2, Page Title and Sections Titles.
The Set Custom button opens the Fonts Properties for the respectively selected category. It allows you to customise the following
- Font Family: Arial, Courier, Georgia, Times, etc.
- Colour & Size
- Line Height adjusts the line spacing when using a particular font style.
- Links in text and their appearance when you Rollover them with the cursor.
Changes can be easily reverted to the one that come with the initial template via the Revert to Stock Item button.
Background
You can use the Background category to change your site's background colour or image. You can choose from a library of stock images and colours, or apply your own.
To replace the default background, just select an option from the list. To use your own image, click Set Custom and either choose a file from your computer or provide an URL of the desired image.
Based on the size of your image and the placement you want, you will need to determine the Position. Tiling will cause the image to repeat Vertically, Horizontally or both. Use the Background Image Scrolling drop-down to choose "Fixed Position" and the content area will move over the background. Choose "Scroll with Content" and the background will move alongside the content area.
Some designs allow you to change or apply Site Background Ornaments. These translucent images will appear over the Site Background colour or background image. This feature has similar customisation options as the Site Background one.