Website Settings

The Setup tab is where you customize the website’s appearance and decide which information should be visible and how updates are published.

Most core content is controlled from your artworks, exhibitions, categories, and profile. The Website settings are for the extra visibility choices that apply across the whole site.

Appearance and layout

Color theme

Choose one of four color themes:

Light Grey is the original Artlope website style, with a white and light-grey background.
Dark Grey uses charcoal backgrounds and light text.
Light Beige uses warm, light neutral colors.
Dark Beige uses deep brown and warm neutral colors.

Changing the theme updates the background, text, borders, buttons, and other supporting colors across the website.

Artwork image shape

Square keeps artwork preview images in square frames and shows the main image on artwork pages on a square background. Images are cropped in previews but contained in full on the artwork page.

Original aspect ratio displays artwork previews and main artwork images in their natural proportions without a square frame.

Choose where the main menu with Works, Exhibitions, and About appears:

Top right keeps the original layout.
Top center centers the menu at the top of the page.
Left side places the artist name and menu in a sidebar on larger screens.

On smaller screens, the left-side menu moves back to the top so the website remains easy to use.

Automatic updates

Automatically update website decides whether Artlope should publish relevant website changes for you after your website already exists.

When this is turned on:

the first website creation is still manual
Artlope checks for pending website changes regularly
the website is only updated when the newest pending change is at least 5 minutes old

This delay helps avoid unnecessary website rebuilds while you are still editing several things in one session.

If the switch is turned off, you keep full manual control and use the Update website button yourself.

Prices

Show prices decides whether artwork prices appear on artwork pages.

If this is turned off, artwork prices stay private even if you have filled them in on the artwork itself.

Sale information

Show sale information decides whether artworks can show sale-related labels on the website.

This helps visitors understand whether a work is still available or already sold or reserved.

If this is turned off, those labels stay hidden.

Done artworks

Show all done artworks decides whether finished and reserved artworks are included on the website by default.

If this is turned off, those artworks stay hidden unless you explicitly set an artwork to Always show.

Sold artworks

Show all sold artworks decides whether sold artworks stay visible on the website by default.

If this is turned off, sold artworks are removed from public pages unless you explicitly set an artwork to Always show.

Email address

Show email address decides whether email contact entries from your Profile can appear on the About page.

If this is turned off, your email stays hidden on the website even if it is stored in your profile.

Telephone number

Show telephone number works in the same way for phone contact entries from your Profile.

If this is turned off, telephone numbers stay hidden on the website.

Artwork gallery images

Show artwork gallery images decides whether additional artwork images appear below the main image on artwork pages.

This is useful when you want to show:

details
close-ups
framed views
installation views
process photos

If this is turned off, only the main artwork image is shown.

Legal notice

Show legal notice adds a Legal notice link to the website footer.

When you turn it on, you can also fill in the legal notice text in the editor below the switch.

The legal notice content can include normal text, headings, lists, and links.

If the switch is turned off, the legal notice page does not appear in the footer.

What is always there

Some parts of the website are always included.

For example:

the main navigation links Works, Exhibitions, and About (you can change their location)
the Privacy policy link in the footer
the main content you chose to show from artworks, exhibitions, categories, and profile

If you want to change that content itself, see Controlling website content from other pages.