How to Customize a SmugMug Site?

Before going through all the other settings on a site, you need to get started with customization. Here’s a useful guide on how to customize a SmugMug site that will help you make the site truly yours. Now, go and begin the effortless work.

How to Customize a SmugMug Site?

• First of all, log in to your account.
• In the header toolbar, you’ll find the ‘Customize’ menu which overlays three options:
  • Site-Wide Theme: Change colors and fonts for your Homepage, Folders, Galleries, and Pages.
  • Content and Design: Change design, theme and layout for your Homepage, Folders, Galleries, and Pages.
  • Choose a New Site Design: To select one of the preloaded designs on SmugMug as a starting point.
• The ‘Customize’ also opens a drawer on the left side which you can move to the right by clicking the arrow key.
• While customizing your site, you can either create designs for the entire site all at once or for selected pages, folders, or galleries.
• When you click on homepage, folder or gallery, you’ll see a section ‘+Make This (Homepage, Folder, Gallery or Page) Custom’.
• This section is to make you work only on the page you have opened at that time.
• Selecting ‘All Galleries’ makes changes across all your galleries.

Three Components to Customization Menu

1. Content: This enables you to simply drag and drop contents to all pages on your site.

• Photos: You can add single photo, multiple photos, or slideshow blocks.
• Navigation: Customize your site with breadcrumbs, navigation menus, and more.
• Video: Want to add embed video or YouTube videos? Just drag and drop their content blocks.
• Design: Here, you can add your own logo.
• Text: Tell stories about you, your photos and more to inspire your visitors.
• Social: You’ll find your profile, social icons, share buttons, and comment blocks here.
• Discovery: Let your people discover your work. Add search box, keyword clouds, and maps.
• HTML and CSS: Add your own code to any page.

2. Theme: You can easily spot the theme picker in the header toolbar or in the ‘Customizer’.

• From color to fonts, you can completely change the look of your site.
• According to the theme and color you have chosen, background color, borders, and typography all change.
• The theme applies on all the pages, folders, and galleries.
• If you want apply it for a specific page, folder, or gallery, click ‘+Just This Page/Folder/Gallery’ in the customizer.

3. Layout: The last section that you see in the customize menu is ‘Layout’.

• Here, you can make customize page width and spacing of page elements, fluid or fixed design, and header and footer elements.
• Pin section on a page to make your logo and navigation menu to stick to the top of the page, even when your visitor scrolls down.

That’s how you customize a SmugMug site. You can use the preloaded designs or completely change the look to your wish. The ultimate goal is to beautify your site and make it visitor friendly.

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