You're homepage is often the first page that greets your visitors. This guide introduces Version 2 homepage features and settings.
Tip: Find out what theme, version and plan your website has by hovering your cursor over Settings in your CMS navigation.
Editing your Homepage
CMS > Settings > Homepage
Here, you are able to edit general homepage settings and layouts.
These include:
- Slideshow (main slideshow images).
CMS > Settings > Homepage > Slideshow type > you'll have the following options:
- Selecting ’Fullscreen (images fill the entire window)' option from Slideshow Typereveals another dropdown menu called, ‘Slideshow pagination type’.
- 'Slideshow pagination type’ allows users to choose either ‘Dots’ or ‘Locations’ as a way for their visitors to scroll between their homepage slideshow images.
- When selecting ‘Locations’, users are able to allocate a label to each slide by either creating a label in the ‘Header Slideshow’ or by allocating a location record to an exhibition, which has been selected as ‘Show on home page’.
- 'Slideshow pagination type’ allows users to choose either ‘Dots’ or ‘Locations’ as a way for their visitors to scroll between their homepage slideshow images.
- Selecting ’Fullscreen (images fill the entire window)' option from Slideshow Typereveals another dropdown menu called, ‘Slideshow pagination type’.
- Layout (header and footer).
- Enable button backgrounds. This setting will add background colour to buttons on your slideshow.
- Splash screen. This can be a great way to introduce your website, when visitors first arrive at your site.
Pages > Home > Pencil edit icon
Here, you can edit items that appear on your homepage, including:
- Visibility, such as access control (password or username protection) and whether to 'Show on navigation'.
- Slideshow images and Heading overlay text.
- Page layout type (either Standard or Select artwork grid to display grids of chosen artworks).
- Page content.
- Feature Panels, which will appear underneath any of the above items if they have been enabled.
- Page settings like 'Navigation label'.
Homepage images
See this guide for more information on adjusting images on your homepage.
Showing a video on your homepage
If you'd like to show a video on your homepage instead of images, see this article on adding videos to your website.