How Do I Promote My Crevado Online Portfolio?

Sharing Your Crevado Online Portfolio on Social Media Networks

If you are using your Crevado Online Portfolio website to sell your work, it is essential that you do as much as you can to promote your Portfolio and build a Social Media following as this increases your potential customer base. The following are some useful tips for you to do just that!

One way to promote your Crevado Online Portfolio is to click on the Promote link at the top right of Crevado Admin:

Here you will see the Promote your Portfolio section and underneath it there are three popular social media sharing networks listed: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. You can easily and quickly share your work on any, or all three of these social media networks by clicking on the link beneath each one, as highlighted below by the red arrows.

NOTE: Once you click on any of the links provided to promote your online Crevado Portfolio you must then follow the steps requested by the social media network to complete the sharing process!

Enabling the Sharing of Your Crevado Online Portfolio Via Social Media Networks:

You can enable the sharing of the images and videos on your Crevado Portfolio via popular social networks.

Firstly, from Crevado Admin click the Customize button:

Scroll down to the Social Media Sharing area. Here you can enable sharing via Facebook and/or Twitter and/or Pinterest by simply selecting Enable. You can disable these settings at any time by simply clicking on the Disable option:

Another way of promoting your Crevado Online Portfolio is to add a clickable icon for social networking sites you use, to allow visitors access your profile page! Follow these steps to do just that!

Firstly, from Crevado Admin click the Customize button:

Scroll down to the Your Social Media Links section. Here you will see we have composed a list of some of the most popular social media networks; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, SoundCloud, YouTube, Pinterest and Dribble.

Click on any of the blue boxes, that represent each social media network, to link to that network. When you click, a white text box will appear underneath a message asking you to enter in your full URL for that social media network. Once you have entered in the URL click the blue Save button!

Now the social media clickable icon will appear on your Portfolio!

NOTE: You can link as many Social Media Networks to your Portfolio as you want, just repeat the steps with the relevant URL for each one! Paid accounts will have an additional option where they can specify a favourite icon to link to the website of their choice e.g. link to a Blog.

Configuring the Position of Your Social Media Icons on Your Crevado Online Portfolio Website:

Configuring the position of your Social Media clickable icons on your Crevado Online Portfolio is now available.

NOTE: Positioning options for the icons can vary based on your active theme!

So once you have enabled and added Social Media clickable icons on your Crevado Online Portfolio you can then decide where on your page you want them to be positioned using the Crevado Theme Editor!

To start, from Crevado Admin click the Customize button:

And then click on the blue Customize Theme button or the blue Crevado Theme Editor link. Either of these will launch the Creavdo Theme Editor:

Once in the Theme Editor you will see a menu displayed on the left, locate Theme Options and click on the + symbol to expand its menu:

You will see the Social Icon Position options at the end of the Theme Options. Simply click on the position you want from the options, left static, below navigation, after header, before footer or after footer or hidden:

Once you're happy with the changes you've made you can save them to make them permanent by clicking the green Apply Changes button at the top left of the page:

A pop-up will ask you to confirm that you wish to make the change to your Crevado Online Portfolio. Simply click OK to confirm the change:

Adding Your Social Media to Your Crevado Portfolio Navigation:

Instead of having Social Media Icons displayed on your Portfolio, as discussed above, you can instead have Social Media presences within the main navigation of your Crevado Online Portfolio website.

NOTE: If you choose to display your Social Media within your main navigation, all other social media icons will be automatically hidden on your Portfolio.

From Crevado Admin, click on the Pages button as shown below:

From Pages, locate and click on the Create Page button:

It is located to the right of the screen:

When you click on the Create Page button, a pop-up will open. This reveals the different page types available. Here you need to click on the Social Links option, then enter a link URL and click the Create button.

You will now see a new page entitled Social Links within the list of pages in your Crevado Admin:

You can drag and drop the new Social Links page to position it where you want within your portfolio navigation here also. As you can see in this next screenshot, I have dragged my social links (Facebook and Twitter) to the end of my page navigation:

How Do I Change My Crevado Portfolio Theme?

Changing the Theme of your Crevado Online Portfolio website is quick and easy. From Crevado Admin click the Customize button:

There are thirteen Themes available, nine with a Light or Dark version and four with a light version only (for now!):

  • Masonry: A clean, light weight, Masonry based theme. Vertically stacked media with primary navigation on top.
  • Folio: Media is displayed one by one, using arrows (or keyboard) to navigate.
  • Minimal: A clean, light weight, minimal theme with vertically stacked media and primary navigation on the left. Ideally suited for people with large numbers of Projects.
  • Flipbook: A minimal theme based off our Masonry theme but with Flipbook based navigation. Media is displayed one by one, using arrows (or keyboard) to navigate.
  • Thumbnails: A minimal theme based off our Masonry theme but with Thumbnail based navigation. Gallery content is displayed all on one page using cropped thumbnails, switching to flipbook based navigation once clicked.
  • Thumbnails2:A minimal theme similar to Thumbnails but gallery content is displayed all on one page in a fully justified photo grid (rather than cropped uniform thumbnails). Flipbook navigation is used once thumbnails are clicked.
  • Carousel: A fashionable horizontal theme optimized for displaying sets of HD photos.
  • Fang: A clean, modern theme which displays photos in a grid layout, works especially well with touch based devices.
  • Tazo: If themes Fang and Minimal had a child, this would be it! A vertical, light or dark coloured theme featuring fixed navigation and a justified photo grid for media.
  • Sasha: A fully responsive, clean, modern and spacious theme. Perfect for displaying lots of series of media or if you have a large number of projects you wish to showcase.
  • Zara: Similar layout to Sasha but features an alternating list-based gallery layout - perfect for telling a story about your work.
  • Fresh: A fresh modern theme, based off Sasha but with grid based gallery display including lightbox overlay navigation for individual media.
  • Sleek: A slick modern theme with fixed header and snazzy animations. Best suited with Portrait style images.

You can see the different options by clicking on the forwards arrow > (on the right) or backwards arrow < (on the left) or by clicking on the dots located on the top right corner as illustrated below:

Clicking on the green Apply Theme button will apply the selected theme:

Spend some time previewing the different Themes before deciding on one to use and once you do you can then customize the Theme further using the Theme Editor.

Note: For best results, we recommend that you spend some time deciding on your Theme and specifically whether you want a Light or Dark version. It will mean less editing for you later and ensure that your ultimate colour choices contrast properly with widgets on your portfolio such as buttons etc.

Once you've settled on your preferred Theme you can now move onto editing the finer details by clicking on the blue Customize Theme button:

This launches the Crevado Theme Editor which you can use to modify a wide variety of elements that make up your Portfolio!

For more information on customizing your Theme using the Theme Editor please see customizing your Online Portfolio Appearance using the Crevado Theme Editor

How Do I Attach PDF or MS Word Documents to My Crevado Online Portfolio?

NOTE: This article shows you how to create top level links on your Online Portfolios navigation which when clicked take the user to the specified file. If you're looking to just create links to File Attachments from within text content on a page then you instead view how to attach files within your Portfolio Content Pages.

Attaching a PDF or MS Word documents to your Crevado Online Portfolio is easy! Just follow these simple steps:

From Crevado Admin, click Pages:

click pages

Next click on the Create Page button:

click galleries

A window will pop up allowing you to create a new page. Change the page type to File Attachment and choose whichever PDF or MS Word document you wish to upload using the Browse button:

click galleries

When you are finished, upload your file using the Create button. Your file will now be attached as a link within your Portfolio Navigation.

From Crevado Admin, click Pages:

Locate the Gallery Page that you wish to attach the PDF or MS Word Document to and then click on the Edit Page Content icon to the right of the Gallery title, as shown below:

This will bring you into the Galley Page. Scroll down to the Gallery Info area and click on the blue Gallery Description box:

When you click on the Gallery Description box a toolbar will be revealed. On the toolbar, click on the File Upload icon:

A pop up will open. You can enter a Name for your attachment and then simply drag and drop your PDF or MS Word document, or click to upload it from your device:

Once you have selected the attachment to be uploaded and it has been uploaded successfully you will be brought back to the Gallery Description page. Please click on the Save button here to save your changes:

A yellow pop up at the top of the screen will state Setting Updated. That's it, your done!

How Do I Change My Crevado Portfolio Plan or Alter My Billing Settings?

From Crevado Admin, click on the Account link on the top right of the page:

account link

You will see the title Your Crevado Account and underneath that click on the blue Billing & Plans button:

Next, click on the blue Change Plan link which is located to the right of the Subscription Plan information:

This brings you to our Change Plan page where you will see summary of each plan. To change your current plan you must click on one of the downgrade or upgrade options to select the plan you want to change to. The options are located underneath the summary of the plans available. In the example below, the user has a Premium plan/account so their only options will be to downgrade, as the Premium plan is the highest level plan available (so you cannot upgrade further):

NOTE: You must be within the thresholds of the Plan in order to downgrade to it. This may mean you need to delete some Images, Galleries and/or Videos before you will be eligible to downgrade.

Changing How Frequently You Are Billed:

Crevado supports a flexible billing cycle. For more information please see how to change your billing cycle.

How Do I Rename Galleries on My Crevado Online Portfolio?

Renaming any of your galleries is easy! From Crevado Admin, click on Galleries: click galleries

Here you'll see a list of all the Galleries within your Crevado Portfolio, each represented by their Gallery cover images. Click on the Gallery you wish to rename: click on gallery

From the Gallery page scroll down to where you see Gallery Title and click on the Gallery Title box to edit it. Enter the new name of your Gallery, then click Save: gallery title

You will receive a pop-up message confirming that your name change was successful.

How Do I Change the Title of My Online Portfolio?

From Crevado Admin click Customize:

customize

Scroll down to the Portfolio Header and click it:

portfolio header

Enter in the new title/name and click Save.

A pop-up at the top of the screen will confirm that your change has been successful.

Note: If you are using an image based logo then this will be displayed instead of the title. The title will still be incorporated in to the page title for your portfolio and as a result will be visible as the title on search engine results, even if you're using a logo.

How Do I Change My Email Address?

From Crevado Admin, click on the Account link on the top right of the page:

account link

NOTE: When you change your email address this will also change the email address you use to login to Crevado Admin!

Scroll down to the Email Address box and click on it:

change email address

Delete the email address entered here and type in your new email address, then click Save. A pop-up at the top of the page will confirm that your change of email has been successful.

NOTE: Remember to use the new email address the next time you login to Crevado Admin!

Can People Share My Work Using Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter?

Crevado makes it easy for your visitors to share your work on their social media networks such as Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook. This functionality can be enabled or disabled on a per social media network basis. The sharing of your work in this way helps to promote your online Portfolio website and increase visitors to it, building up your online presence.

From Crevado Admin, click on customize: customize

Scroll down to the Social Media Sharing section. This area allows you to control what media networks your visitors will be able to share your work on. You can enable sharing via Facebook and/or Twitter and/or Pinterest by simply selecting Enable. You can disable these settings at any time by simply clicking on the Disable option:

social media sharing

How Do I Edit My About Page on My Crevado Portfolio?

Your About Page is a useful way of providing information about yourself. It is an important element of building a great online Portfolio website as it allows you to engage with and spark an interest in those who view your Portfolio. Typically it should include information about previous employment, experience, contact information and any background details you wish to mention.

Here's how to edit your About Page:

From Crevado Admin, click Pages:

From your list of Pages, locate your About Page and click the related Edit Page Content link, as shown below:

edit about page

This will take you to your Portfolio in Live Edit Mode enabling you to change the page content of your About Page.

NOTE: A yellow pop-up at the top of the screen will alert you that you are in Live Edit Mode and reads: "LIVE EDIT mode is active. Click here to go back! or View Live Version".

From here you can write whatever you wish, introduce yourself to potential customers, existing clients or the world!

Don't forget to click Save when you are done:

Editing Additional Properties Of Your About Page:

You can also edit additional properties of your About Page, such as your contact details, by visiting Page Properties. You can do this by clicking on Pages at the top left of Crevado Admin:

Then click on the Properties Icon, it is represented by a pencil:

Once the Page Properties pop-up appears, click on the Contact Info tab at the top right of the pop-up, as shown in the following screenshot:

Now you can enter/edit your location, your telephone number and your profile photo:

Once you have finished making your changes don't forget to click on the Save Changes button at the bottom of the pop-up!

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Creating External Links on Your Crevado Online Portfolio Navigation

You can link to any website from your Online Portfolio using an External link. Adding an External link creates a new link in your Crevado Online Portfolio navigation which in turn is linked to the website of your choice.

Here's how to add an External Link to your Crevado Online Portfolio:

Firstly, from Crevado Admin, click on the Pages button as shown below:

From Pages, locate and click on the Create Page button:

It is located to the right of the screen:

When you click on the Create Page button, a popup will open. Here you need to change the Page Type to External Link from the drop down menu, as shown below:

Next you need to enter the Link Title, which is the title/name of the link as it will appear in the navigation of your Crevado Online Portfolio and the URL of the website that you wish to link to on your Crevado Online Portfolio. Finally, click on the Create button:

That's it, you are done! The link will now appear in the navigation area of your Crevado Online Portfolio.

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