Template Customization Guide: Surround

The Bandzoogle ‘Surround’ template features a large header image with a prominent header title. It also offers a scrolling content area over a textured background to make your site feel more down to earth.

Notes:

• Your template can be changed at any time without affecting the site content. You can also switch back to your previous template (with all saved customizations) through the ‘My Themes’ tab of the Template chooser.
• All of our templates are mobile responsive, so they scale to the size of the device used to view the site. All features work seamlessly on mobile as well.
• To learn more about customization terms and options please view the ‘Template Customization Key’ Help article.

Variations

Most Bandzoogle templates offer a few variations of the base template. These variations include preset colors and fonts to get you started with the template. Some themes also allow you to start with a blank theme. If the blank theme option is selected, no stock header image, colors, or fonts will be pre-loaded.

• 2 styles: Neutral, Sombre
• Blank template option: Yes

Animation

Some Bandzoogle templates load with a bit of movement. This may be something like the header title floating in, or the title size decreasing as you scroll.

• Template animations: None

Header

The header image is the photo or video that displays at the top of your website. Your header image is the first thing a visitor sees when they load your website, so it’s important to make it stand out. Each Bandzoogle template offers different header sizes and options.

• Header image display: Large rectangle
• Header image filters: Yes
• Header image filter customization (color/mode): Yes
• Adjust header height: Yes
• Show full header image on mobile: Yes
• Option to remove header image: No
• Header image shape/position options: None
• Scroll down arrow option: No

Title/logo

Your band or artist name should display prominently on your website. You can use our title text option or upload a logo if you’ve got one already designed. You can also choose ‘None’ to go without a title/logo altogether.

• Site title font color customization: Yes
• Site title font options:
  • Site title font (custom upload option for Pro members)
  • Size
  • Letter spacing Make use of the unique negative text spacing with your title to give your site a retro abstract look.
  • Uppercase toggle
• Logo/Title positioning: No
• Background color: Adjust the color and opacity for the background behind the header title

Navigation menu

The navigation menu is the area where your page names are displayed. The page names are clickable buttons that direct visitors to the different site pages.

• Menu location: Top of header (above the title and header image)
• Menu direction: Horizontal
• Menu color customizations:
  • Font
  • Font hover color
  • Submenu background
  • Submenu font
  • Select font color (the color of the menu page the visitor is currently on)
  • Mobile font
  • Mobile background
• Menu font options:
  • Menu font (custom upload option for Pro members)
  • Font style
  • Font size
  • Uppercase toggle
• Select background color: Yes (the background color of the menu page the visitor is currently on)
• Background color (menu bar): Yes (with option to adjust opacity)
• Sticky navigation: No
• Hamburger menu on desktop: No

Call-to-action header (CTA)

A call-to-action (CTA) is the primary action you’d like visitors to take once they load your site. This can be something like ‘Buy my album’ or ‘Sign up to my mailing list’. The key is to place it high on the page to direct fans to a specific action. Most of our themes place the CTA overtop of the header image.

• Call-to-Action header: No

Content

The content section of your website is where all your image, text, and features live. This is where you add your music, blogs, events, and anything else you’d like to present to your visitors.

• Content font options: (content, title, headings)
  • Font
  • Style (for titles only - not content or headings)
  • Size
  • Line height
  • Letter spacing (for titles only - not content or headings)
  • Uppercase toggle
  • Link style (for content font only - not titles and headings)
• Decorate titles: Toggle on to add a grainy divider line under your content titles
• Texture: Toggle on to add a texture behind your content area
  • None
  • Light
  • Dark
• Background color: Yes (choose the color for your content background)
• Content colors: Use section styles for content font, button, and link colors
• Adjust content width: No

Note: To customize colors, fonts, and accents within the content area, please use our Section Styles option.

Buttons

Some of our features include action buttons. As an example, the Mailing List Sign-up Form feature has a ‘Sign up’ button. Some of our templates offer the option to customize the shape and style of these buttons. All button customizations are applied site-wide.

• Button shape options: Rounded, Square, or Pill
• Button style options: Outline or Solid

Site-wide music player

The site-wide music player displays on each page, and continues to play as visitors navigate your website. Most of our templates place the site-wide music player at the bottom of the website, at full content width. Select templates may display a compact player at the bottom of each page or within a vertical menu bar.

• Site-wide music player style: Bottom of the site, full width
• Site-wide music player color options: Yes
  • Background
  • Text

Site-wide ‘My Sites’

Links to external platforms can be added through the ‘My Sites’ feature. There are two versions of the ‘My Sites’ feature: Site-wide (displays on each page, either in the header or footer section), and per-page. This option controls the position of the site-wide ‘My Sites’ feature.

• Site-wide 'My Sites' size option: Yes
• Site-wide 'My Sites' color options: Yes
  • Button
  • Button hover
• Site-wide 'My Sites' location: Bottom of Header
• Site-wide 'My Sites' position options: Left, Center, Right