![]() These appear when you click on an item’s blue menu (top left of said item).įor instance, click on an image’s menu to add an alt text, a caption, link it to a URL, or alter the photo’s margins. You could be satisfied with adding content as described above and leave it at that, but if you want a bit more customisation, you’ll find options tucked away in various places. This is needlessly harder than it is made out to look. Trying to add a Twitter URL to another social media field (like LinkedIn for instance), also leads to an error - ie, the fields know to expect a specific input, yet force you to type in the full address. This is most frustrating, especially since the field in question is specifically for Twitter so should know the URL starts with ‘’. However it isn’t so: instead of just typing ‘’ in the Twitter section for example, you have to enter the entire URL, ie, ‘twitter/com/’. You’d think that in order to create a link you’d just add your handle in the relevant fields. The way it’s done is more complicated than it should be though: clicking on that section replaces the sidebar with a long list of social media sites. One of your options is to add a social media bar on your page to link viewers to your various accounts. Linking to your social media account could be much less frustrating than it is (Image credit: Adobe) Social media This isn’t a complicated process and video hosting sites do make it easy to obtain it straight from their sharing options, but it’s nevertheless a process that takes longer than simply pasting a URL. However, despite the fact many web builders we’ve tried in the past, like WordPress or EverWeb know what to do when you paste the YouTube video’s URL into an embed field, and convert that to the code needed to insert it properly, Portfolio has adopted the more archaic method of requiring the actual embed code to work. ![]() Should you rather wish to share a vid you posted on another site like YouTube or Vimeo, that’s where the Embed function comes into play. If you make videos, you upload them as you would a photograph. ![]() Just like when you add captions, you have basic text editing tools available to you, although these only appear once you highlight some written text.įrustratingly, every time we added a text section, the page would jump back to the top and we had to scroll back down to where we were before, in order to start typing. You also have the option of including text boxes, thereby creating what could be viewed as a more traditional webpage, even though this isn’t Portfolio’s primary purpose. You have a handful of traditional customisation options when editing text (Image credit: Adobe)Īs mentioned earlier, you’re not limited to adding photos to your website. ![]()
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