Build your portfolio homepage
Use a computer to edit your homepage. Homepage is not in the phone navigation, and opening a saved homepage-editor link on a phone returns you to your galleries. Both the classic homepage editor and Homepage Studio are desktop-only. Your published homepage remains available to visitors on all devices.
Choose Homepage in Studio. Your gallery homepage is a public page for the galleries you choose to share. Customize Classic opens with its own cover and design controls beside a preview. You can edit your Classic homepage here; Homepage Studio is an optional, separate drag-and-drop editor.
Set up your gallery homepage
- Open Galleries in the Customize Classic panel to see all your galleries. Selecting one turns on Show on homepage automatically; unchecking it turns that setting off. Drafts can be selected in advance but appear only after they are published.
- Design & cover is open by default. Choose your cover photo, cover style, and height. Fine-tune your design reveals typography, text placement, color, and photo crop. Cover-photo choices save immediately; use Save changes at the bottom of the customization panel for the other design settings. The save controls stay visible while you scroll the panel.
- Open About & contact to add your name, introduction, and the contact details you want visitors to see. Choose Save changes when ready.
- Use Preview page beside the desktop/phone controls to review the result, or View page when your homepage is live. Expand preview opens a larger view of your current edits. Use the Homepage on/off switch below the preview when you are ready for visitors. Turning it off hides the page without deleting your work. Open Sharing & access for your address, domain settings, and password protection.
Your main website stays where it is. Copy Your homepage address from Sharing & access to share this gallery page. You can also click the address above the preview image to open these settings. If the homepage is already on, saved changes and gallery selections update that page.
Order the galleries
In the classic homepage’s Galleries panel, Sort by offers Newest first, Oldest first, Name A–Z, or Creation order. Choose an option and Save changes. Selecting or unchecking a gallery controls whether it appears; selection order does not set its display order. Homepage Studio separately supports dragging gallery cards into your chosen order inside a gallery section.
Explore Homepage Studio Beta
For templates and freely arranged layouts, choose Open Studio in the Homepage Studio section at the top of Homepage to go straight to that editor. Classic’s own design tools remain available under Customize Classic. There is no intermediate dashboard or second edit button. The Beta badge opens an optional introduction to Studio. If you have unsaved Classic edits, the button becomes Save & open Studio and saves those changes first. If saving fails, you stay in Classic with your edits intact. Saved Classic changes update your Classic page if it is live.
Your choice of workspace is remembered. After leaving the editor, the Studio overview shows your published design, or your private draft if you have not published a Studio design. Its preview scrolls within the page so the controls remain visible. Open Homepage Studio takes you directly back to editing. Preview expands the design shown on the overview. Opening Studio or editing a Studio draft does not publish it.
Use Help → Back to classic in the editor or Back to classic in the overview to return. If you have published a Studio design, Revert to classic appears on the overview. Review and confirm the switch; your Studio draft stays saved. Canceling a return from the editor takes you back into the editor. On your first visit, a beta notice explains what to expect. Returning beta users see a one-time What’s new introduction to the updated workspace. Choose Start editing to begin, or Show me around for an optional tour. Open Help in the header to replay the tour, read What’s new or About the beta, and report a bug in Support Center. Dismissal is remembered for your account.
In Studio, start with a complete template or a blank canvas, then build a page around your photographs.
See Design and publish with Homepage Studio for the full editor: templates, photo layouts, fonts and colors, navigation, phone design, saved page designs, backups, history and publishing.
Switch back to the classic homepage
If you have only opened or edited a Studio draft, Back to classic returns to the classic workspace without changing your public page. If you have published a Studio design, choose Revert to classic on the Studio dashboard, review the classic preview, then confirm. Your Studio draft, public address, password and online/offline status are retained.
Your homepage is separate from an individual gallery’s cover and delivery email. To match those colors, use Cover Studio → Match gallery & email.
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