We are so pleased to announce new homepage options to all our themes. Add Sliding Panels and a Welcome Message, a Video, a Slideshow, or Featured Links. Add them in any combination, or all at once. Now you can COMPLETELY customize your site! You can easily create an online presence that cohesively matches your brand and the UNIQUE way you market your business.

Now with Homepage Options, Blog Options, Font Options, Fonts Sizing, Color Options, and New Style Options you can truly create an online brand that is unlike anyone else. You can’t do that with a template website!

You can turn on and off the sections you want to be public. You can change your site daily, adding feature sections for different times and promotions. Market your studio the way you want instead of trying to fit a cookie cutter site. As you can see the possibilities are endless!

Sliding Panels, Welcome Message, Featured Links

Slideshow with Featured Links

Video

You can add video to any page of your site, we’ve just made it incredibly easy to add to your homepage.

All Sections Together

This is a sample of all the sections together. They can be reordered by dragging and dropping them into place in the back end.

A look at the back end

This is the new Homepage Options, and what you see in the back end of your site. You can easily drag and drop a section in the order you wish.

And with the Welcome message area, you can specifically edit the font size, font color, and even the fonts themselves. You can also choose which side the sliding panels and welcome message are on.

Make your site your own

Give your clients many doors into your site and a reason to stay and discover who you are as a photographer, as a studio as a business. This is what your online branding is all about. Creating a presence that is uniquely yours.

Photo credits: Justine Ungaro, Mi Belle Inc, Monachetti Films

Video Home Pages

As of tonight, we have a great new feature that is requested often… Full screen video home pages!

(view on live site)

You can now choose whether to use the slideshow of images, like all sites have had up until now, or replace that whole area with a video.

Simply login and visit “BlogSite Options->Home Page Options”. Select which option you want and paste and embed code from Vimeo, YouTube or any other site. You will want to customize the code as you grab it and make it 1000px wide.

We recommend using the “New” embed codes offered by Vimeo or YouTube. Why? Because they will automatically provide replacement versions for mobile, iPhone and iPad. If you use the “old” versions you only get a flash player that will be unwatchable on some devices.

How do you know what the “old” or “new” emded codes are? They will ask as you grab the code from the site, but generally the “old” codes start with the word “embed” or “object”. The “New” codes start with “iframe”.

Full screen video on any page

Did you know there are lots of ways to add video to anywhere on your site, including a full page video?

Here is an example from our Latte Demo (view on live site):

Other Ways to add Video

You can add a smaller video to the side of any page (where the thumbnail image would normally go).

You can add video or any other embedded media anywhere in the middle of your normal page content with the embed shortcode.

There are lots of options, all of them spelled out on our “Adding Video” page on the support site.