Your website's style

A style is the shape of your website: what the top of every page holds, how the menu looks, and what the bottom of the page carries.

There are ten. Your website wears one at a time. An Admin user can switch to another on the Appearance page, under Plugins, then Site Layout. Appearance has the steps, and a way to try a style before anyone else sees it.

The ten styles

Style	Made for
Marketing	Service businesses that sell with a call to action
Portfolio	Builders, designers and makers who sell with their past work
Blog	Sites that post articles, news or guides often
Classic	Family service businesses, such as heating, lawn care and cleaning
Trades	Roofers, plumbers, electricians and contractors
Bistro	Restaurants, cafes, bakeries and breweries
Boutique	Gift shops, clothing stores, florists and bike shops
Practice	Clinics, dentists, lawyers, accountants and vets
Community	Nonprofits, churches, clubs and schools
Garage	Auto repair, detailing and tire shops

The Appearance page shows a card for each style you can pick, with a short note on what it is for. Not every website can pick all ten. If a style is missing from your page, ask us.

What a style changes

A style changes the header, the menu row and the footer, all at once. Your words, photos, pages and menus stay just as they are.

Some things work in every style:

• The thin strip above the header, called the Utility Bar.
• The colored buttons in the header. They come from the header button settings.
• Your colors, light or dark, and your fonts. Those are their own choices on the same Appearance page, and any of them goes with any style.

Most styles keep the header on screen as you read down the page. Portfolio lets it scroll away. A Sticky header switch on the Appearance page changes that for any style.

Which style do I have?

Go to Plugins, then Site Layout, then Appearance. The card that is picked is your style.

If nobody has picked one yet, the heading says Using the host default, then the name of the style we set up for you.

Only an Admin user can open that page. Anyone else sees a line that says only administrators can change the site’s appearance. Ask your Admin, or ask us.

Style and add-ons are different things

Your style is the shape. An add-on is a feature.

They do not decide each other. A Trades site can run the blog add-on and have Posts. A Blog style site can run the shop. Portfolio is a common home for Projects, but any style can have them.

So the name of your style tells you nothing about which add-ons you have. Look in your own menu for that.