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Advanced Settings at a Glance

The Advanced page, in the Settings menu, holds the finer controls for your website. Most artists use only a few of them. A blank field almost always means "use the standard setting", so clearing a field and saving puts it back.

Page (Width, Header, Footer and Background)

  • Page Width: Leave this blank unless you have a reason. Your layout chooses a width that generally works well. If you do set one, enter it in pixels, such as 980px. Some layouts ignore it.
  • Title Image: Replaces the title text at the top of each page with a picture. See Add a Title Image.
  • Background Image: Puts a picture behind your pages. Use it with care: choose a subtle, washed out image, because a busy one makes text and artwork hard to see. The picture repeats across and down the page, so a pattern does not need to be large.
  • Copyright Message: Replaces the copyright line at the bottom of the website. See Change Your Copyright Text.

Typeface

  • Typeface and Typeface Size: Set the font and the base text size for the whole website. Leave Typeface on (default) to use your layout's font. See Change the Font for Your Whole Website. A size in pixels stops your visitors from resizing the text, so a percentage such as 120% is the better choice.

Galleries and Links

  • Gallery Message: Text shown below the title on your main gallery page. Some layouts do not show it.
  • Links Page Message: Text shown below the title on your Links page.

Images

Meta Tags

  • Meta Description and Meta Keywords: A short description of your website and a comma separated list of keywords, for tools that search the internet. Most search engines now ignore them, but filling them in does no harm. See How Your Website Appears in Google.

Prompts

Select Update Advanced Settings to save. The button is at the top and at the bottom of the page, and it saves every setting on the page at once.

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