ZENFOLIO

You can easily design your own pages on your Zenfolio website with the use of Custom Pages. You will create the entire content on the page through our interface, or by manual coding the information. While you do have the option to manually code your pages, the code itself cannot be supported though our customer support. If you are interested in more details on the custom page content interface, see the Formatting Toolbar entry.

For a video presentation on creating custom pages, click on the Play button below.

Create a custom page

1. In Edit View click on Website Pages under the Organizer.
2. Select Custom Pages
3. Click Create New

Edit a custom page

1. In the Title field enter the name of your page. A Friendly URL will be generated in the URL field that can be used for linking from external webpages.
2. Check/Uncheck Allow indexing by search engines. If your content is useful to visitors and will help with Search Engine Optimization, we highly recommend leaving this checked.
3. Enter your META description in the text field. Your META Description is used by search engines to help catalogue your web page correctly. It is not seen by visitors. Adding a useful description or keywords will help with Search Engine Optimization.
4. Enter your Content in the content field. The formatting toolbar had a number of options to assist you.
5. Click Save to apply to create your new Custom Page or click Save and Close if you are done making changes.

Add Custom Page to Site Menu

Once the page has been created, it will still need to be customized. Like all the other pages in your site, Custom Pages will be templatized, using the Page Theme and Site Settings. Additionally, you will need to add the Custom Page to the site menu so visitors can find it.

1. In Edit View click on Website Pages under the Organizer.
2. Select Custom Pages
3. Click Customize

The page will refresh with a new customization menu at the top and a yellow outline around the page, confirming that you are in the customization mode. From here you can modify the theme and change the page options to remove breadcrumbs. In order for the page you be found you must add the page to the site menu. This page will be listed under Built-In pages.

If you have multiple items on a single custom page, we highly recommend using tables to design the layout of the page. First, create a table and then you can create as many cells inside the table as needed. Then inside each cell, you can add a variety of media - text, photos, videos, embeddable slideshows, and other embeddable items. By right-clicking on the table, you will also be able to customize its properties such as border size, header, caption etc...
 
It may take a bit of experimentation, but this is generally the easiest way to align and organize different items on a custom page.