Designing the page people land on

The page behind a link is yours to lay out. It is a grid of blocks: the files, a header, your words, a picture wall, a link back to your folio, a button, a countdown. Put them where you like, at the size you like, and the whole page takes a look you pick. What the link itself does, such as asking for approval, has a fixed place of its own, described below.

Where to find it#

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   From the share panel

   The layout button sits beside the Share and Embed tabs. It opens the editor in a new tab, so the files you were about to send stay where they are.

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   Or from Link manager

   Open Link manager from your profile menu and pick the Page tab. It shows what your links currently look like, with a button to edit it.

Until somebody publishes a design, every link uses the Nemi default page, which is already a full page: a header, the files, who sent them, what is in the delivery, and how long the link lasts. Nothing has to be designed for a link to look finished, and the editor opens on that same page, so you start from something that works.

Drafts and publishing#

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   Change anything

   Every change saves as a draft on its own, a moment after you make it. There is no Save button. The top of the editor says Saving while it happens, and Not saved if it could not.

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   Your links do not change yet

   While you work, every link keeps showing the page it showed before: the published version, or the Nemi default if nothing has been published. Beside the title, a dot says which: Not published yet, Unpublished changes, or Live on every link.

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   Press Publish

   That puts the draft on every link the workspace has sent, at once. After the first time the button reads Publish changes, and it is greyed out when there is nothing new to publish.

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   Or go back

   Discard, beside Publish, throws the draft away and brings back the published version. It only appears when there is a published version to go back to.

"Use the Nemi default page", at the bottom of the settings panel, takes your design off every link and puts the Nemi default back. Your design is not deleted: it stays in the editor as a draft, and Publish puts it back on your links.

How the canvas works#

• The blocks are on the left, each drawn as a small picture of the shape it makes. Search if the list is long, and click one to put it on the page: it lands in the first gap it fits in.
• Or drag a block from the list onto the page to put it exactly where you let go. Whatever it lands on moves down to make room.
• Drag a block on the page to move it. Drag the handles on its right edge, bottom edge or corner to resize it.
• Arrow keys nudge the selected block one step; hold shift and they resize it.
• Duplicate a block, with everything you set on it, from its settings or with the usual copy shortcut plus D.
• Blocks never sit on top of each other. Move one onto another and the other makes room below it, so nothing ends up printed through anything else.
• A block marked "Cut off" has more in it than fits. "Make it fit" in its settings grows it to the right height.
• "Tidy up" does both at once: it grows anything that is cut off, then pulls the whole page up until it touches.
• The right hand panel holds the settings of whatever is selected, the look of the whole page, and in its Link tab what the link asks of people. On a phone the same settings open from the bottom of the screen.
• Undo and redo are at the top, on the usual keyboard shortcuts, and the delete key removes the selected block. Typing a sentence into a field is one undo step, not one per letter.
• A block you add lands at a size that shows what is in it, with a little room to spare for narrower screens.

The canvas shows your own recent files, so what you are arranging is the page a client actually gets rather than a diagram of it. Each link then fills the page with its own files when somebody opens it.

What you can put on it#

What every page shows#

Some things on the page are what the LINK does rather than how the page looks, so they are not blocks you place. The page draws them in the same place every time, where they cannot be cut off, hidden on a phone or deleted by accident.

• A bar at the foot of the page. While it holds a decision still to give, or the only download button, it stays at the bottom of the window as somebody scrolls. On a link that asks for approval it asks your question and offers Approve and Request changes. It also carries Save to workspace for visitors with a Nemi account, and Download all whenever your design has no download button of its own, including on phones when your download button is hidden there. On a link that needs none of that, there is no bar.
• Agree before downloading. Switch it on in the Link tab of the settings panel and write what people agree to, with a link to the full text if you have one. When somebody presses any download button, your text appears with a box to tick, and the download starts as soon as they agree.
• The review button. A link with a review round shows its own button in the corner of the window, which opens the round.
• The Nemi line at the foot of the page, described below.

The Link tab is where you set the words: what the approval bar asks, and whether and what people agree to before downloading. The editor shows the bar as a link that asks for approval would, with a line under it saying its place is fixed.

Putting a form on it#

The Form block offers one of your published forms on the delivery page: a brief, a feedback round, a booking. Pick it from the list in the block settings, and its name, its description and how many questions it has are read from the form itself, so renaming it in Forms renames it on every link that carries it. Answers arrive in the form’s response sheet exactly as they do from any other link to it.

The look#

The Look panel is the same one a folio uses: nine starting points, then the background, the colours, any Google font, the corners, the shadow and the width. Picking a new start replaces the look and never the blocks, so it is safe to try one halfway through.

The Nemi line#

On the free plan every page ends with one small line saying it was sent with Nemi. It sits at the foot of the page, under your blocks, and it is not a block, so there is nothing to move or remove. From Starter upwards you can turn it off for every page with the Show Nemi branding switch in the workspace settings, or for this page alone with Show it on this page under The Nemi line in the Link tab. That is the same plan line that decides whether your own branding replaces ours everywhere else.