About my Portfolio Website

Why does the address for my portfolio website have to be a path under drawfolio.com?

For free accounts that don't have a domain name yet, we make portfolio website to have an address like "drawfolio.com/portfolios/something-you-can-choose". Also, a domain can take between 24 and 48 hours to be available after registering it, so we keep this address as some sort of "backup address" so you can begin building your website right away. When your domain is available, we will just link it to your website, and the "backup address" will keep working just in case.

What are galleries?

Galleries allow you to organize the pictures in your portfolio into differente topics, and you can create as many as you please. They will appear on the main menu navigation of your portfolio website.

Can I have Galleries inside other Galleries?

Yes, any gallery can have another gallery as a parent. When you create or edit a gallery you can choose its parent gallery in the "Parent Gallery" select dropdown. Each portfolio template will integrate this gallery hierarchy into the navigation menu in the most natural way possible. If a parent gallery contains its own pictures, the usual picture listing will appear on that gallery, and if the parent gallery contains no pictures a gallery list of the child galleries will be shown.

How can I put videos on my galleries?

On any picture you already uploaded, you can enable the check "Show a video in this picture detail" on the "edit" form. On "Link to the video on youtube or vimeo" you can put the URL of your video on youtube or vimeo. That picture will be shown with a video sign overlayed on the gallery picture list, and in the picture page the video will be embedded.

How can I crop the square thumbnail of a picture I uploaded?

After uploading a picture to a gallery, you can edit the thumbnail cropping area to make sure it looks great when listing the pictures of a gallery in your portfolio. Just click the link "Edit Picture Thumbnail Crop" when editting a picture, or in pictures you can upload in the "Information" or "Appearance" section.

How can I link to my social media profiles?

You can add and remove links to your profiles on other social sites under the tab "Social Links" of the "Information" section.

How can I set the colors for my portfolio website?

You can set your custom colors on the "Colors" tab on the "Appearence" section, via the color selectors or writing a color's CSS code on the input boxes.

The Background color is the color for the background on every page of your website, and the Foreground color is the color of all the text of your website that is not a link.

Link color is the color for normal links, the ones that are not a button.

The button links (rectangle links like the current section on the navigation menu, or the gallery links in your home page) have two colors you can set: the background color and the foreground color.

The contact form in your website has its own background color, and you can also set background and foreground color for the "Send" button in that contact form.

How can I set the fonts for my portfolio website?

On the "Fonts" tab of the "Appearence" section, enable the "Use custom fonts in my portfolio" check and select fonts for your portfolio website text, links and title. You can also elect the whole font size for all your website.

What is the background picture?

On "Appearance -> Background" you can upload a picture to serve as the background your all the pages in your portfolio website. You can also set the repeating pattern for it, the position in the window where it will be anchored (top left, centered, etc) and set the background to always stretch to the browser's width or height.

How can I set texts in the navigation menu?

On the "Main menu and navigation" section, you can set custom labels for the "fixed" navigation menu items: Home, About, Contact. If you leave them blank, the default texts will be used in your website.

I already have a blog in blogger or wordpress. Can my last publications from there appear on my portfolio website?

You can integrate your current blog in blogger or wordpress on your portfolio website in no time. Go to "Syncrhonize > Blogs and Feeds", select your kind of blog and put its URL. A new section called "Blog" will appear on your portfolio website, showing your last publications. You can also link to a RSS feed straight.