Theme, header, footer and menus
Pick one of 36 themes from real previews, set your colours, fonts, logo and buttons once, and build the header, footer and drop-down menus.
Your theme is the look of the whole website: colours, fonts, picture shapes, headings, section edges, buttons, the header and the footer. Set it once and every page follows. You need the Admin or Designer role.
Pick a theme
There are 36 themes. Each one is its own design, not just its own colours: a restaurant theme opens with a full-screen food photo, a salon theme with an arched photo and a fine serif, an architecture theme with a huge headline, and so on.
- Open Design > Theme & colours and click Browse all 36 themes.
- Filter by your kind of business, or search for a word such as serif, dark or photo.
- Click a picture to Preview the theme large, on a computer and on a phone. The pictures are sample websites made with the theme.
- Click Apply. The new look is live at once.
Applying a theme keeps your words, photos, pages, logo, social links and custom code. If you changed a colour or font yourself, the app asks before the theme replaces it.
New websites start from the theme's layout. When you make a website with Make your website, the home page is built from the theme you choose: its banner, its sections in its order, with free photos for your kind of business. On a website you already have, applying a theme changes the look of your sections; to try a theme's layout too, add its sections from the editor (for example Photo collage, Scrolling words or Photo tiles).
More design
Under More design: pictures, headings, section edges you can change what the theme set:
| Setting | What it changes |
|---|---|
| Picture corners | Square, softly rounded, very round, or arches for tall pictures |
| Headings | Plain, capitals, italic, with a short line, or extra large |
| Small lines above headings | Small capitals, in a pill, with a line, or handwritten |
| Section edges | Straight, slanted, wavy or curved between sections |
| Texture | None, fine grain, paper or dots behind the page |
Colours, fonts and logo
| Setting | What it changes |
|---|---|
| Main colour | Buttons, links and highlights |
| Second colour | Small accents |
| Text and background | The page itself |
| Fonts | One font for headings, one for text |
| Corners | Square, slightly round or round, for pictures, cards and buttons |
| Logo and site icon | The logo in the header, and the small icon in the browser tab |
Header and footer
- Header - choose a layout (logo left with the menu right, centred, and so on), whether it stays at the top when people scroll, and an optional button such as Book now or Shop.
- Footer - your business details, a footer menu, social links and a short line about your business.
Ellibo's small "Made with Ellibo" line shows in the footer on the Free plan. From Standard it goes.
Menus
- Open Design > Menus.
- Pick the menu: Header, Footer or the second footer menu.
- Click Add and choose a page, a blog, a part of a page or any web address.
- Drag items to change the order. Drag an item under another to make a drop-down.
- Click Save.
New pages are not added to a menu by themselves, so you decide what visitors see.
Your own styles
On Professional and Business, Theme & colours > More options takes your own styles and code for the page head. See The editor and blocks.