You may notice that the designs included with your website have thumbnail images that display anywhere you select or edit a template in the system. You can also include thumbnail images like these with your own design templates. Here's how:
- Take a screen shot of a website page that is using your template. You can take a screen shot by putting the site on your screen and pressing the "print screen" key on your keyboard (at the upper right of many keyboards). This will copy the image to your clipboard. Then, open an image editing software and paste the image from your clipboard.
- Size the image to EXACTLY 160 pixels wide by 120 pixels tall.
- Export the image as a .GIF file and name the image exactly the same as the name of the template for which you are creating the thumbnail, appending the .GIF extension. For example, if the template is named "Inside.html" the thumbnail image should be named "Inside.html.gif".
- Save the image to your computer.
- Repeat for each template in your design.
Once you have created a thumbnail image for each template in your design, you now need to get the thumbnails loaded onto the system with your design. Follow these steps:
- Login to your website and select My Website --> Designs from the top toolbar. This will take you to the design manager.
- Click on "My Designs" and look for your design in the list.
- Click the "Download" button next to your design. This will download a .zip file containing your design.
- Locate the .zip file on your computer and unzip the files.
- Rename the .zip file you just downloaded to something different. This will serve as a backup of your design.
- Copy the thumbnail images you created earlier into the folder that you just unzipped.
- Rezip the design folder containing all of the downloaded files plus the new thumbnails and name the .zip file exactly what the original .zip file was named when you downloaded it.
- Go back to the "My Designs" page on your website and click on "upload a design now" at the top.
- Browse to the location of the new .zip file you just created and upload.
- That's it. The new design files should overwrite the old files and everything should be the same, with the addition of the thumbnails you just created.
Posted on
Wed, May 26, 2010
by Support