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How to create and customize Portfolio Pages
Rien
posted this on August 19, 2009 09:32 am
Available in the Standard and Pro plan.
With Viewbook Standard and Pro plan you can create individual pages. Pages are portfolio or project pages that bundle your albums, to make them available to the public. Let's start with creating a page.
Create a portfolio page
Creating is very easy. Follow the simple steps below.
1. Add a new page Click the 'New' button in the toolbar, and choose 'page'. An untitled page appears in the pages list.
2. Change the name to edit the name of your page, simply click it's title and edit. You can also click the 'settings' button in the toolbar to edit more page details.
3. Add albums to add albums to your page click on your page to open it. Then click any of your albums, hold down your mouse button and drag the album into your page. Repeat this for any album you want to add to your page.
4. Reorder albums to reorder the albums in your page click and drag the album to the desired position.
5. View your web page click the 'Open' button in the toolbar, this opens the public link to your page.
6. Make the page appear on your homepage, you can display a page on your Viewbook homepage (username.viewbook.com). Click the 'settings' button in the toolbarand check the 'Set this web page as your homepage' checkbox.
Google, Visitor Statistics and Custom domain
You can optimize your page for Google, add Google Analytics to track visitors and add a custom domain. Read the articles below to learn more:
Adding a custom Logo
You can also add a custom logo, or no logo at all. Read the how to add a custom logo section to learn more.
Customize Styles
Standard and Pro accounts allow you to change the styles of your web page. The following style options are available in the Styles bar, in the top of the page editor:
- Image size (small, wide and large)
- Font face (Sans, Serif)
- Font color (light, grey, dark, viewbook)
- Background color
- Title color
- Date (show / hide)
- Custom logo
- And many more...
Click on the page area and changes save automatically.
Comments
How do I change the names of my albums? They keep changing or going back to original name and I want to change them in both my managing page and my webpage. They don't seem to want to stay with the name I want to call them.
Simply open your Album. Then click the name on the left in the Album listing. It will change to edit mode.
It is corrected, possibly needed to delete temp files, cookies, etc to clear off the gunk that built up yesterday, or just a glitch that shutting down corrected. Have a happy holiday season.
great thanks!
How do I remove an album from the page?
1. Click the Album
2. Hit the Delete button at the top
Hey there,
I have this problem with my viewbook page:
When I open an album from my Image Manager it opens like this: http://davidpapp.viewbook.com/album/30seconds
That's exactly how I want it to look like.
But...when I open it from my main page the album looks like this:
http://davidpapp.viewbook.com/portfolio/papp_david/album/30seconds?p=1
I don't like it. I want it to look like the first one. How could I get it to work?
Best regards,
David
Activate the 'Open albums full screen' option under the 'Thumbnails' tab in your Page.
Thanks for the help.
Hi, how do i make it so that when my page loads, my portfolio pictures automatically show up? so that i don't have to click on the first image to "load portfolio"?
Perry, please send your question here, so we can help you out.
Hi I have a couple of questions,
1. Is there a way to add a hyperlink to an album or text page?
2. Can I use css code to custoize my site?
1. Yes http://support.viewbook.com/entries/496456-how-do-i-create-a-link
2. No, this will be available in te next version of Viewbook (V3)
Hi, is it possible to add a text area that do not collapse below the picture on the welcome/first site?
How do I remove the "powered by viewbook" footer that keeps appearing on all my pages??
@Christina Sorry for the late reply.. I hope you already found a way. If not, it's possible if you are on the Pro plan to embed an album in a text page with the embed code that you find under 'share'. Then you can add as much text as you want beneath the album.
@Caiphus If you are on the Pro plan you can send a request to remove it via http://support.viewbook.com/anonymous_requests/new
How do I add a filter down the left side of my portfolio the way Michelle has done in your example portfolios?
http://www.micheleng.com/portfolio/
Do I really need a Pro account to have more than one page? I can only make one page... and cant link to another
@Gareth Michelle must have switched to another platform, we'll remove her site from the examples page. Creating filters like that isn't possible with Viewbook right now.
@Devon Yes, only the Pro plan has different page formats, navigation menu's and such, see for more specs http://support.viewbook.com/entries/60512-what-are-the-main-differe...
How do you move the "body" and "side title" etc.. I do not like any of their current placements with the presets. Is there a way to just drag them around where you want them?
You can't drag them, this will become possible in the next version of Viewbook. You can however choose one of the layouts (top, left or right)
I'm not seeing a way to move and resize page elements (e.g. title, thumbnails, text, etc.), or remove them altogether. In some of the example portfolios, they have three or more thumbnails across (mine only has two), a menu running across the top (mine is down the right side), etc. It was my understanding that there were a variety of templates to choose from, but there only appear to be different color schemes and types of pages (e.g. album, collection, text). Is it possible to drag and resize items? I am using Google Chrome; are there are any compatibility issues? Thanks for your assistance.
Gregory, if you have a Pro plan you can choose several layouts: left, top and right. This is the first dropdown box in your page properties bar. If you need any more help with this please send a support request.