Anonymous asked: It won't let me upload images to my profile/webpage? Just refreshes the page each time.

When uploading an image through the add image page what should happen is; you would click the browse button to select one (or more) JPEG or PNG images, then you would click the upload button, after which an overlay would open with a progress bar showing you how long the upload will still take. If that is finished the overlay should close and you should return to the Work page and see your new image in the list there.

What could prevent this scenario from playing out; if you upload images in the wrong format (please check if they really are JPEG or PNG images), in which case you would get an error message. Or maybe a browser issue, or *gasp* a temporary issue with our server, but we didn’t get any reports of that (or see anything unusual).

So what you could do is try again, check if the images are in the correct format, and if neither of those things help please shoot us an email at support@fresh.li and add a note about which browser and OS your using along with the image you were trying to upload and we’ll see if we can figure out what’s up.

Anonymous asked: how do i upload photos

Before you can upload a photo, you first have to add a section.

You can add a section to your portfolio if you click manage on your dashboard. The title you give to your section will be a menu item; ‘nature’ for example.

Once you have your section, click “click here to add your work”.  You enter the “manage section page” you can change the title here and add a description of your section if you like.
In the menu on the right you see a button “add work” click this to add a work. Then click “click here to add media”. You now enter the “manage work page”, you can give a description for that work and upload your image or images.

This seems like a lot of steps for just one image, but this way you can bundle your images in different menu items and series. Let’s say you have a section ‘nature’, and in this section you have a work titled ‘my herb garden’. This work could then contain all your photos of your herb garden. Similarly you could have works for your patio, the fountain, etc. Each with one or more images.

In lists like all works in a section one work will have one thumbnail. If you have a section nature and the only thing you photograph are birds, you might want to have a thumbnail for every photo. In this case you have to add a new work for every bird.

Anonymous asked: How can I choose the default template?

It depends on whether you have a Free or a Pro plan. When on the Free plan you don’t have to choose it, that’s the template you get automatically. When you upgrade to the Pro plan however you can choose from a selection of six (more soon!) templates and the default template is one of them.

Changing templates

When using a Pro plan go to the settings page (the settings link next to your portfolio name on the main dashboard) and scroll all the way down. There you’ll find previews of each template. Pick one and hit the save button and your good to go. You can change templates any time, just remember that the colors you choose in that same settings page are used differently in each of the templates so what works well in the default template might not look so nice in another template. It’s easy to experiment with different color palettes though so just try different variations and see what works for you!

Anonymous asked: How can i upload a pdf?

Gr. Mike

Hi Mike,

I’m afraid right now you can’t, all you can upload right now are images in the PNG, JPEG or GIF formats. You could however add a link to a PDF which is hosted elsewhere for instance in the public folder of your Dropbox account or a similar file hosting service.

Check out this recent tutorial on adding links if you need to know how to add a link to an external file or website.

Hope that helps you out, and let us know if you have any more questions!

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This tutorial teaches you about the new feature and also explains how to make website links and so called mailto links in the text of a page or section of your portfolio.

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