Showit

Jason Lackey

JT Pals

Jeff Willems

Building Your Site

Learn how to lock specific layers/elements inside of Showit so they can't be accidentally selected or moved while editing other content.

Layer Locking

Learn how to replace your default design content with your own personal photos!

Add a Photo

Learn how to add a shape element to be used in your design.

Add a Shape

Learn about the line tool options to create lines, dashes, and dots easily in your site!

Line Tool

Learn the various options you have for styling out canvas backgrounds in your site!

Canvas Backgrounds

Learn about menu options to amend or replace the default menu in your Showit design.

How to Create a Menu

Learn how to create a new page in your Showit site.

Add a Blank Page

Learn how to use toggle switches inside Showit to hide or show design elements on your desktop and mobile site.

How to Show or Hide Design Elements Between the Mobile & Desktop Design.

How to resize or align multiple elements as a group.

Aligning Multiple Elements

Need to move a design element to the front or back of your canvas? Learn how stacking order for design elements & canvases works in Showit.

Stacking Order for Elements and Canvases

Learn how to get the most from your Showit preview with these tips and tricks many users don't know.

Preview Options

How to add or re-add a new page from your template or any of the free templates available in Showit.

Adding a Page From Another Design

Learn how to publish a new design to your live site, replacing your current Showit design.

Publish a New Design

How to zoom in and out on mobile and desktop and reset the zoom level.

Using Zoom Function Inside Showit

A list of the supported keyboard shortcuts in Showit.

Keyboard Shortcuts

A great keyboard shortcut to copy settings between objects/layouts.

Special Paste

Adria Story

Building in Showit

Looking to add a blank canvas to your design for more space to design on a page? This is how to do it!

Add a Blank Canvas

You can convert any singular page canvas into a site canvas to be used across multiple pages in Showit!

Convert A Page Canvas To A Site Canvas

Make filling out your contact form easy for clients by setting it up so they can tab through your contact form fields.

Contact Form Tabbing

How to set a click action to link to a specific canvas within the pages of your site.

Linking to a Specific Canvas

How to change the height/length of your mobile and desktop canvases.

Adjusting Canvas Height

Share canvases across multiple pages for quick updates with site canvases!

Using Site Canvases

How to setup a Showit contact form and what to do if it stops working.

Contact Form

Learn how to use the hidden to start canvas setting

Hidden Canvas

Add html code from other services for contact forms or interactive elements (Mailchimp, Honeybook, Pixifi, Shoot Q, Táve, PayPal, Shopify)

How to Embed HTML Code

Learn how to use the site canvas function to add in a complete canvas from another design in your library.

Add a Canvas From Another Design

Learn how to add a video as a canvas background in your Showit site.

Canvas Background Video

Josh Ahles

Canvases

Learn how to add text columns to your Showit site!

Text Columns

Learn how to add a text box and adjust formatting

Adding and Formatting Text

Customize the temporary vanity URL of a design

Customize a Design's Vanity URL

How To Add Bullet Points

Learn how to create a beautiful linktree to link to from your instagram or other social media accounts with Showit!

Linktree

Learn to create URL links that will take a user directly to a specific section  (page, canvas, canvas view) of your site.

Creating Custom URL Links

Kylie Stull

Text and Links

How to organize or delete files in your media library.

Managing Your Media

Learn how to add images to your gallery and remove the default design images to display your portfolio

Add Images to a Gallery

How to add a tiled style gallery to your site.

Tiled Gallery

How to use icons to control your gallery images so your viewers can navigate through your gallery images.

Gallery Controls

Learn how to create a mouseover effect which lowers an images opacity to display a color or text overlay.

Hover Action on Images

Learn how to set up a hero (full screen) image on your Showit site!

Hero Image

Learn how to create a full screen hero image type gallery using canvas views.

Create a Hero Gallery Using Canvas Views

How to adjust image settings to help with sizing, scaling and backgrounds.

Image Size and Placement Settings

Learn the types of video files compatible with Showit and some of the different ways you can add them to your site.

Video

Learn how to add a Vimeo Video to your site and the options available with the Video Widget.

Add a Vimeo Video

Learn how to add a YouTube Video to your site and the options available with the Video widget.

Add a YouTube Video

Learn how to add a sliding gallery to your website.

Sliding Gallery

Kylen Downs

Images & Video

Learn how to add your logo to your Showit site.

Add Your Logo

Learn how to create and link buttons in your Showit site.

How To Create Buttons

Learn how to add icons to your Showit site.

Adding Icons

How to create a custom vector icon to be used on your site.

Custom Icons

Looking to add a drop shadow to an element in your site? Here is how to do that in Showit.

Drop Shadows

Learn how to use the gradient feature in Showit to create gradients for shapes and canvas backgrounds.

Gradients

How to add Google fonts and filter for supported languages for your website

Google fonts

How to add a custom font to your Showit site.

Add a Custom Font

Create a sticky button that follows you down the page and can quickly scroll up to take you back to the top of the page.

How To Create a Back To Top Button

Embed third party widgets like social media widgets, custom contact forms (dubsado, honeybook, other), or email services such as mailchimp.

Embedding Widgets

How to create an "Under Construction" landing page for your site.

Landing Page

Learn how to create a Frequently Asked Questions page for your site.

How do I create a FAQ page?

How to create a sticky menu that will always show at either the top or bottom of a page.

Sticky Menu

How to create drop-down navigation using canvas views

Make a Drop-Down Menu

Pop Out Menu

Add links to pages and canvases on your navigation canvas.

Add Links To Your Menu

Canvases with pop-up functionality are great for email newsletter opt-ins and free lead magnets to get visitors to engage with your site.

Creating A Pop-Up

How to add the parallax scrolling effect to your site and a few other cool tricks.

Parallax Scrolling

How the Edge Locking for elements works in Showit.

Edge Locking

Create a Custom 404 Page

How to make a site multilingual in Showit

Multilingual Sites

Ben Junk

Design

Tips, tricks and best practices for designing your mobile and desktop site side by side.

Mobile VS. Desktop Design

Is your mobile navigation not working? Common issues and solutions for your mobile menu.

Mobile Navigation Troubleshooting

Quick tools and settings to help you layout your mobile design quickly and efficiently to show similar to the desktop version.

Mobile Layout Assistance

Learn how to make sure your navigation on the mobile design is set up and working properly

Mobile Navigation

How to add a pop-up to your website for EU cookie law and GDPR compliance.

EU cookie law

Mobile Design

Learn how to display an auto-updating instagram feed with Showit's Social Grid Widget.