About Page
Transcript:
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Now we'll head to the gallery page. When you're editing the gallery page, you'll notice that the left side of your screen looks a bit different.
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On the right, it shows what the gallery page looks like to your site visitors. These are the featured images for each of your pieces.
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When you hover over the piece, their title appears. Then, when you click on a piece, you're brought to its profile inside the gallery.
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Let's Click on Artwork 1 from the left menu. Click on these three little dots, and then click Settings. Click Remove and then you’ll be able to add a new image from your device.
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Once you've selected an image, remove Artwork 1 from Title and write in the title of your piece. Then move down to URL Slug and delete the end of this link.
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Replace this text with the title of your piece. won't be able to remove the word Gallery, but that's okay because it's an important part of the link. It points to the part of your site that this item is located on.
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Having a clean link with the title of your piece and the page it's on keeps your site navigation simple and lets people know exactly where they're heading when they see this URL.
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Now click Save. We'll edit the profile for this piece. First, we're going to save this section because when you add more art later on, you don't want to have to rebuild this page every time.
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Instead, we can just pull from our Saved Sections folder. Both of these are just normal text boxes like we've edited before, so go ahead and fill in your information. Let's edit the Inquire button. The purpose of this button is to allow people to easily contact you about a specific piece.
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Click on the button and then click on this pencil icon. Feel free to change the text here if you'd like. Now we're going to link this button to your email.
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Click Attach Link. Click where it currently says URL. And select Email. In the To section, type in your email address. Then, in the Subject line, type in the name of this piece.
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Then click Attach Link. Now, if someone is interested in a piece, they can contact you about it without ever leaving this page.
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Then go ahead and add that same photo into this image block. If there are multiple photos you'd like to include in on this page, the easiest way to do so is to have a small gallery here instead of an image block. So, if you'd like to add a gallery, go ahead and remove this block by clicking on it and then clicking on the trash icon.
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Now, add a gallery by clicking Add Block, and then Gallery. Now, let's click and drag this gallery into the right place.
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To add your own photos, Click on this pencil icon, and then click Upload Images. I'm going to click into this blank area to deselect the menu so we can see how our gallery looks.
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You might want to adjust the size. You can do that by clicking on it and then dragging these dots. If the formatting still doesn't look right, I'll show you how to make some edits.
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Click on this pencil icon and then click on design. I'm going to click and drag this menu so I have a better view of my gallery.
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Since I only have two photos, I'm going to drag this thumbnails per row down to two. You can also adjust the padding around the pictures by clicking and dragging this.
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You can also change the aspect ratio of the photos by clicking this button here. I'm going to click back into this blank area and get a better look.
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Now that I'm happy with how this looks, I'm going to click save. And then I'm going to exit. Go ahead and replace the remaining gallery items with your own pieces.
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If you need to delete some of these templates, click on the three dots next to the name and then click settings.
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Then click delete. If you have more art to add, click on the plus icon. And then click add blank project.
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Fill in this info like you did for your other pieces. Then click save. Now here's where the saved sections feature is helpful.
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Instead of rebuilding this page from scratch, we can click add section, saved sections, and then we can select the template that we just saved.
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You can also adjust the order that these appear in your gallery by clicking and dragging them to a different spot on the menu.
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Now let's head to our About page.