How to change the look of your site

September 30, 2016 / Web Hosting

There are three different ways to change the look of your site:

  1. Changing the template for your site
  2. Changing the site styles
  3. Changing the style of a piece of content

CHANGING TEMPLATES

Choosing a template can either be done when you initially sign up to the editor or by selecting another one via the Template picker. To access the Template picker:

  1. Click the Main menu icon at the very top left of the screen
  2. Click Template picker
Template picker
Accessing the Template picker

[alert]If you are changing the look of your site after adding lots of content, it’s a good idea to use the Preview button to see how your content works with a new template.[/alert]

SITE STYLES

Use Site styles to change the colours and fonts across your whole site.

To change Site styles:

  1. Click Site options, the three dots in the top left corner of the screen
  2. From the dropdown menu select Site styles
Site styles
Accessing the Site styles

Reset Site styles

If you aren’t happy with your style changes you can reset them using the “Reset all styles” button at the bottom.

CONTENT STYLES

Content styles are a set of options that can change the colours and fonts for a particular type of content.

To access Content styles:

  1. Hover over a piece of content
  2. Click the cog icon in the top left
  3. Click the Styles tab shown in the sidebar at the top
Styles
Accessing Content styles

Content type styles

Style changes made on a particular piece of content will be applied to all content on your site.

CHANGING A STYLE

To change a style:

  1. Click on the style you would like to change
  2. Change the colour or font
  3. Click the back button ( < )
  4. Click Save
Save
Editing a font style

COLOUR OPTIONS

There are three options for choosing a colour:

  1. Selecting one from the pre-defined palette
  2. Using the colour wheel
  3. Adding a hexadecimal colour
hexadecimal colour
Colour options

FONT AND TYPOGRAPHY OPTIONS

Font and typography options can be changed in the following ways:

  1. The font itself
  2. The weight or thickness
  3. The size
  4. The line height (the space between lines of text)
  5. The letter spacing
spacing
Font options
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