Designing your site

Your public site is yours to shape. The design studio lets you pick from curated layouts for each part of your site and see the result before you publish it.

The design studio

Open Design in the studio. On the left is a controls panel; on the right is a live preview that reflows as you change options. A device toggle switches the preview between desktop and mobile widths, and a Preview button opens the real composed site with your own photos.

When you are happy, Save applies your choices to your public site.

Header layouts

The header is the profile band at the top of your home, stories, and gallery pages. Choose between a design that fits your style.

Gallery layouts

Pick how your photo grid is arranged — from uniform tiles in tidy columns, to staggered columns that keep each photo's own proportions, to photos grouped by the place they were taken, to a plain canvas that shows every photo uncropped. Select any option to see it laid out with your own photos.

Stories layouts

Choose how your published stories are listed — a grid of cards, a single-column list, a year-by-year timeline, or an arrangement that gives your latest story the most room.

The map

If you tag your photos with locations, you can turn on a map surface. Toggle it on in the design studio and pick a globe or flat style. See Maps and locations for the full walkthrough.

Preview before you commit

Nothing changes on your public site until you save. Use the inline preview and the full Preview modal to try layouts freely first.