WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:04.100 Hey there. We'll be taking a look at your website's homepage and design settings. 2 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:09.620 In the left hand menu of our website's admin area, we'll navigate to settings and design settings. 3 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:15.139 This is where almost all of the settings related to your website's design and homepage layout are located. 4 00:00:15.394 --> 00:00:16.855 Here we have 5 tabs, 5 00:00:17.474 --> 00:00:17.974 general, 6 00:00:18.435 --> 00:00:23.414 home page, color sets, banner ads, and custom CSS and head code. 7 00:00:23.634 --> 00:00:30.855 There's a ton of point and click design settings at your disposal, so we won't go through what each one does, but we will discuss some specific items. 8 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:38.460 First, if you want a detailed explanation of each setting, I highly recommend taking a look at our written documentation in our support center. 9 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:41.500 Our team does a great job breaking everything down in there. 10 00:00:41.720 --> 00:00:44.700 We do also have a search filter in the upper right hand corner. 11 00:00:44.745 --> 00:00:53.324 If you know specifically what setting you're looking for but not sure exactly where it's located in here, you can type a keyword and be presented with all of the relevant design settings. 12 00:00:54.024 --> 00:00:59.085 To start, if you're short on time or just wanna test things out, you can apply a home page theme. 13 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:03.379 You can select a home page starting theme at the bottom of the home page tab. 14 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:06.180 Themes do not change the functionality of your website. 15 00:01:06.240 --> 00:01:21.094 They only change the website's design, primarily the home page design elements, such as the top hero section where the primary search module or call to action is located, the content that is dynamically displayed on the home page, and the website's colors along with some other design elements. 16 00:01:21.395 --> 00:01:31.010 You can click activate theme to apply a theme to your website or select live preview, which will take you to one of our demo sites so that you can see what the theme looks like on a live website. 17 00:01:31.310 --> 00:01:38.690 Before enabling a home page theme, keep in mind that doing so will update and override your current home page design and website colors. 18 00:01:39.070 --> 00:01:47.985 Speaking of website colors, you can go into the color sets tab where you can choose from a variety of premade color sets, which will update all of the colors throughout your website. 19 00:01:48.045 --> 00:01:52.545 You may wanna utilize these if you don't want to manually update all of the color settings. 20 00:01:52.765 --> 00:01:57.840 Color sets and home page themes are a great way to get your website's design to a good starting point. 21 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:02.340 You can then manually edit any individual settings to really make the design your own. 22 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:21.075 Back in the Homepage tab and within the top hero section is where you can welcome visitors with a custom Homepage title, upload your own primary background image, choose from a variety of search modules or call to actions to display, such as button links or adding your own custom content, such as text, an embedded video, or any custom HTML. 23 00:02:21.775 --> 00:02:23.555 Under enable additional sections, 24 00:02:24.010 --> 00:02:27.390 you can select additional content to be displayed on your home page. 25 00:02:27.450 --> 00:02:34.510 For example, you can add sections to your home page to stream your newest members or published posts or add your own custom content. 26 00:02:34.890 --> 00:02:40.155 In the banner ads tab, you can enable or disable banner advertisements to be displayed on your website. 27 00:02:40.455 --> 00:02:51.834 There are several default banner ad placements, such as in your website's header or sidebars, as well as some extra banner ad placements, which you can add to custom web pages, sidebars, or other areas of your website. 28 00:02:52.060 --> 00:03:03.439 You can upload your own advertisement images to these modules and choose where they will link to when they're clicked, or you can select use custom embed code and paste an embed code for a video, a Google Ad, or anything else. 29 00:03:03.739 --> 00:03:10.355 If you'll be using an ad service like Google AdSense, they're going to require that you add an ads dot txt file to your website. 30 00:03:10.495 --> 00:03:16.915 You can simply paste the information they provide you with here at the bottom of this page under enter ads dot text content. 31 00:03:17.375 --> 00:03:19.795 And lastly, for advanced users or developers, 32 00:03:20.260 --> 00:03:23.400 you can go into the custom CSS slash head tab 33 00:03:23.700 --> 00:03:25.800 to add your own website wide CSS, 34 00:03:26.100 --> 00:03:31.080 head elements, and footer code. So there's a brief overview of your website's design settings. 35 00:03:31.464 --> 00:03:37.084 Again, if you want a detailed explanation of each setting in here, you can take a quick look at our support documentation. 36 00:03:37.624 --> 00:03:40.104 If you have questions, please reach out at any time. 37 00:03:40.104 --> 00:03:42.764 Our team is always happy to help and support you.