Building Your Site

Layer Locking

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Add a Photo

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Add a Shape

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Line Tool

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

Written by JT Pals
Updated over a week ago

Canvas Backgrounds

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

How to Create a Menu

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

Written by Adria Story
Updated over a week ago

Add a Blank Page

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

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

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Aligning Multiple Elements

How to resize or align multiple elements as a group.

Written by Kylen Downs
Updated over a week ago

Stacking Order for Elements and Canvases

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.

Written by Kylen Downs
Updated over a week ago

Preview Options

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Adding a Page From Another Design

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

Written by Jason Lackey
Updated over a week ago

Publish a New Design

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Using Zoom Function Inside Showit

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

Written by Kylen Downs
Updated over a week ago

Keyboard Shortcuts

A list of the supported keyboard shortcuts in Showit.

Written by JT Pals
Updated over a week ago

Special Paste

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

Written by JT Pals
Updated over a week ago

Add a Blank Canvas

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Convert A Page Canvas To A Site Canvas

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Contact Form Tabbing

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

Written by Josh Ahles
Updated over a week ago

Linking to a Specific Canvas

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

Written by Jason Lackey
Updated over a week ago

Adjusting Canvas Height

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

Written by Kylen Downs
Updated over a week ago

Using Site Canvases

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

Written by Jason Lackey
Updated over a week ago

Contact Form

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

Written by Jason Lackey
Updated over a week ago

Hidden Canvas

Learn how to use the hidden to start canvas setting

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

How to Embed HTML Code

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

Written by JT Pals
Updated over a week ago

Add a Canvas From Another Design

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Canvas Background Video

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Text Columns

Learn how to add text columns to your Showit site!

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Adding and Formatting Text

Learn how to add a text box and adjust formatting

Written by JT Pals
Updated over a week ago

Customize a Design's Vanity URL

Customize the temporary vanity URL of a design

Written by JT Pals
Updated over a week ago

How To Add Bullet Points

Use bullet points on your Showit site!

Written by Kylie Stull
Updated over a week ago

Linktree

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Creating Custom URL Links

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

Written by Josh Ahles
Updated over a week ago

Managing Your Media

How to organize or delete files in your media library.

Written by Jason Lackey
Updated over a week ago

Add Images to a Gallery

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Tiled Gallery

How to add a tiled style gallery to your site.

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Gallery Controls

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Hover Action on Images

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Hero Image

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Create a Hero Gallery Using Canvas Views

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Image Size and Placement Settings

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

Written by Kylen Downs
Updated over a week ago

Video

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

Written by Kylen Downs
Updated over a week ago

Add a Vimeo Video

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

Written by Kylen Downs
Updated over a week ago

Add a YouTube Video

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

Written by Kylen Downs
Updated over a week ago

Sliding Gallery

Learn how to add a sliding gallery to your website.

Written by Adria Story
Updated over a week ago

Add Your Logo

Learn how to add your logo to your Showit site.

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

How To Create Buttons

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Adding Icons

Learn how to add icons to your Showit site.

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Custom Icons

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

Written by JT Pals
Updated over a week ago

Drop Shadows

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Gradients

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Google fonts

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

Written by Ben Junk
Updated over a week ago

Add a Custom Font

How to add a custom font to your Showit site.

Written by Nate Sees
Updated over a week ago

How To Create a Back To Top Button

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.

Written by Jessica Reklaitis
Updated over a week ago

Embedding Widgets

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Landing Page

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

Written by Kylen Downs
Updated over a week ago

How do I create a FAQ page?

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

Written by Adria Story
Updated over a week ago

Sticky Menu

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

Written by Jason Lackey
Updated over a week ago

Make a Drop-Down Menu

How to create drop-down navigation using canvas views

Written by Ben Junk
Updated over a week ago

Pop Out Menu

How to create hidden pop out menu

Written by Adria Story
Updated over a week ago

Add Links To Your Menu

Add links to pages and canvases on your navigation canvas.

Written by Kylie Stull
Updated over a week ago

Creating A Pop-Up

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

Written by Jason Lackey
Updated over a week ago

Parallax Scrolling

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

Written by Jason Lackey
Updated over a week ago

Edge Locking

How the Edge Locking for elements works in Showit.

Written by Nate Sees
Updated over a week ago

Create a Custom 404 Page

Learn how to customize the 404

Written by JT Pals
Updated over a week ago

Multilingual Sites

How to make a site multilingual in Showit

Written by Josh Ahles
Updated over a week ago

Mobile VS. Desktop Design

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Mobile Navigation Troubleshooting

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

Written by Kylie Stull
Updated over a week ago

Mobile Layout Assistance

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

Written by Kylen Downs
Updated over a week ago

Mobile Navigation

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

EU cookie law

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

Written by Kylen Downs
Updated over a week ago

Social Grid Widget (Instagram)

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

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Linking Social Media Icons

Learn how to link social icons to your social media pages in Showit.

Written by Jeff Willems
Updated over a week ago

Creating a +Site

Learn how to use a sub-domain to create beautiful unique plus sites in Showit.

Written by Jason Lackey
Updated over a week ago

Share a Design

How to export a design that you can share with other Showit accounts.

Written by JT Pals
Updated over a week ago

Add a Shared Design

How to add a design shared from another account.

Written by Jason Lackey
Updated over a week ago

Switching Site Designs

How to switch site designs inside of Showit.

Written by Jason Lackey
Updated over a week ago

Google Maps Embed

How to embed Google Maps into your website

Written by Josh Ahles
Updated over a week ago