How does the template work? How do you adjust it? What are the customization capabilities?
Quick Jump To Guide:
Where do I find and edit this template?
How do I know I'm working on the template?
Introduction to the Exhibition Detail template
Basics of working on the template
How do customers typically build this Exhibition Detail template page?
What are all of the Content & Container blocks? How do they work?
> Content Blocks
> Container Blocks
> Pro Plus Blocks
At ArtCloud, we want to save you time and stress of having to create all of your individual Exhibition pages for your website. This is why we've created the Exhibition Detail page template. This template is automatically applied to all of your Exhibitions, so you don't have to build this one by one.
Where do I find and edit this template?
You can find this template in the Website Builder under the Page Templates tab option. If you hover over the block titled Exhibition Detail template, you'll see an Edit option appear. Once you click this, you'll be placed in the Exhibition Detail template:
How do I know I'm working on the template?
You can quickly identify that you're working on this template by looking at the top of the editor. You will see Exhibition Detail Template at the top. You can know, that even if it appears that you're editing a specific Exhibition's page (Blue in Yellow in the following example), you're really editing the template that will be applied to all of your Exhibition Detail pages.
Introduction to the Exhibition Detail template
Depending on the Theme that you've set for your Website, your Exhibition Detail template view will look different from the examples provided in this help article, but they will all have the same functionality!
Once in your template editor view, you'll see the preview example of an Exhibition detail page to the left and building options to the right: Content, Container, & Pro Plus (only if you have a Pro Plus website subscription).
Content - all of the blocks you can use to build your template page
Container - all container blocks to place your content blocks within
Pro Plus - all Pro Plus offered content and container blocks (only visible/accessible with a Website Pro Plus subscription)
Basics of working on the template
When working on your template it's important to know a few basics of how the Website Builder works.
- The Website Builder is based on drag + drop
- You can edit or adjust content by clicking on that content in the preview (within the grey dotted outline). This grey outline will highlight blue or purple depending on the content you're trying to edit:
- There are Save buttons for content blocks (the bottom right corner) & there is an overall Save button for the entire template (in the top right corner). When you Save an edit of a content block, this will allow you to go and adjust further aspects of your template. Saving the entire template will make your changes live.
- Any time you attempt to leave the editor before saving either the content you're editing or the entire template overall, you will see warning pop-ups:
How do customers typically build this Exhibition Detail template page?
Most customers like to display the Exhibition Title, Exhibition Description, the artworks in the Exhibition, and Installation photos (if applicable). You can see how to easily drag + drop these pieces into the builder. This information is getting pulled in from the Manager account:
Depending on how detailed these pages need to be, some customers add an Exhibition Cover Image, Blogs, or even specific Media to their Exhibition detail page. You can build your Exhibition Detail template out depending on your needs!
What are all of the Content & Container blocks? How do they work?
Content Blocks
- Exhibition Title - this is a Text block set to display the Exhibition Title set from within Manager. You can change this Header formatting on the Content tab of this block.
- Exhibition Image - this is an image block set display the Exhibition Cover Image. You can add this Cover Image in on the Exhibition itself in Manager.
- Exhibition Description - this is a Text block set to display the {DESCRIPTION} token
A Token is an object that represents another object. Since this page templates is representative of All Exhibition pages, the token is the object being represented in that block.
For example: the {DESCRIPTION} token represents the Description of the Exhibition text being entered in that space on the live page. When a user visits the specific Exhibit's page, they'll see that specific Exhibit description.
- Inventory - this is an Inventory block set to pull in the artworks that are entered on the Exhibition from within Manager. You can edit the artworks that are in that Exhibition and you can reorder how they display on the website as well.
- Installation Photos - this block set to pull in the images uploaded in the Installation Photos section of the Exhibition in Manager.
- Text - a Text block that will allow you to display any text you want on the template. (Because this is a template, this text will be displayed on All Exhibition pages. If you want to display text related to a specific Exhibition, we recommend using Media or Blog posts or placing that text in the specific Exhibition Description.)
Container Blocks
- Layout - a Flow Container block that allows you to place other or multiple content blocks in one place (side by side in a row or on top of one another in a column)
- Hoverable Content - a Container block that allows you to display varied views of Content based on hover. For example, if you're looking to have Text change color or formatting when a user hovers on that text, you can use this block to build this functionality.
With Hoverable Content, you can create based on the following Content blocks: Exhibition Title, Exhibition Cover Image, Exhibition Description, & Text.
Pro Plus Blocks - Available to Website Pro+ subscribers only
- Blogs - this block allows you to add Blogs to your Exhibition Detail Page. You can even tag or Pro+ link these blogs to dictate which specific blogs appear on which specific Exhibit's page. You would need to create a Blog post first in order for this Blog post to appear with this Blog block.
- Media - this block allows you to add Media to your Exhibition Detail Page. You can even tag or Pro+ link this media to dictate which specific blogs appear on which specific Exhibit's page. You would need to create a Media post first in order for this Media post to appear with this Media block.