Microsite & Website
Build, design, preview and publish your Studio Operations Microsite (Website in the Studio sidebar), manage what appears on Work, and connect a gallery to an outside website.
Inside Website, look for this gray ? icon beside settings and choices. Click it for detailed help about the exact part of the Microsite you are editing. If that does not solve it, use these Help Guides or Guided Help before opening a support case.
Microsite essentials
A few useful places to begin in this section.
What is a Studio Operations Microsite? (Website)
A Studio Operations Microsite is the artist website built and hosted through Studio Operations. Inside the CMS, the feature is called Website. In Support, Website and Microsite mean…
Open guide →02Build and edit your Studio Operations Microsite (Website)
Open Website in the Studio sidebar to edit Home, About, Exhibitions, Press and Contact. Your Work page comes from your artwork records in Your works. View gallery controls…
Open guide →03What is the public gallery?
The public gallery is the artwork catalogue created from your published, active and visible works. Collectors can filter by category and select an artwork image to open its…
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How to
Change the order of works on your website
Use Your works to set the order in which collectors see your public works on your website. Reordering does not publish or unpublish anything, and it does not…
Copy the public link to an artwork
Use this when you want to send someone the public web address for one artwork.1. Copy the artwork linkOpen Your works and open the artwork.In the artwork summary,…
Preview an artwork before publishing
Use artwork preview when you want to see the collector-facing entry without making a Draft public.1. Preview while adding a workAdd a work → Preview this entry in…
Change an artwork’s page address and search information
Use the bottom of the Words tab when you need to change how an artwork page is named or described for links and search.Change the search and link…
Archive or reactivate an artwork in your catalogue
Use catalogue status when you want to keep an artwork record but treat it as archived instead of active.Archive the artworkLook at the left sidebar in Studio Operations…
Publish an artwork to your website
Use this when an artwork is ready to move from a private Draft to Published.Publish the artworkLook at the left sidebar in Studio Operations and click Your works.Open…
Take a published artwork back to Draft
Use this when the artwork should stop being Published and return to a private Draft. This is different from merely hiding a published work from your website.Take the…
Save your website address and platform
Studio can remember your outside website builder and its address. This is separate from creating the artist website under Website in the sidebar.Open Settings → Outside website.Choose your…
Preview your public gallery
Preview the standalone Work galleryOpen View gallery from the sidebar.Choose Preview this page.In the new tab, try the category filters and open an artwork by selecting its image.This…
Copy your public gallery snippet
Put your artwork gallery on an existing website without adding the Studio Operations Microsite pages, menu or footer.Copy your codeOpen Settings → Outside website.Choose the builder you use…
Change the look of your public gallery
Your artist websiteFor one shared design across Home, Work, About, Exhibitions, Contact and artwork detail pages, open Website → Site design. Choose fonts, sizes, colours, buttons, header, menu,…
Change which artwork facts collectors can see
Use this when you want to change which artwork facts collectors can see without changing the artwork record itself.1. Open the public-field controlsSettings → Appearance → What shows…
Show a hidden published artwork on your website
Use this when an artwork is already Published in Studio Operations but you previously hid it from public display.1. Open the public-visibility controlYour works → open the artwork…
Hide a published artwork from your website
Use this when a Published artwork should stop appearing publicly but you want to keep the artwork record in Studio Operations.1. Open the public-visibility controlYour works → open…
Pause your public gallery without changing the artworks
Use the gallery pause when you want to take the public gallery out of view for a short period without changing individual artworks.Pause the galleryLook at the left…
Put your public gallery on your existing website
Use Settings → Outside website to put your Studio Operations gallery on WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Shopify, Webflow, GoDaddy or Hostinger. Other, Weebly and Square Online are not offered.Get…
Fix a problem
Why can I not publish this artwork?
If Studio Operations will not publish an artwork, one or more of the eight public requirements are still missing. The Readiness warning at the top of the artwork…
Why is my artwork not showing in the public gallery?
If an artwork is missing from your Studio Operations Microsite Work page or from the standalone gallery on an outside website, check these in order.1. Make sure the…
Understand
Can I use my own custom domain name?
Custom domain names such as www.myname.com are not available for your Studio Operations website in the current build.Custom domains are planned for Studio and Studio Plus. There is…
What is a Studio Operations Microsite? (Website)
A Studio Operations Microsite is the artist website built and hosted through Studio Operations. Inside the CMS, the feature is called Website. In Support, Website and Microsite mean…
What Readiness means
Readiness is the warning panel at the top of an individual artwork record when public information is still missing. It tells you what Studio Operations needs before that…
What is the public gallery?
The public gallery is the artwork catalogue created from your published, active and visible works. Collectors can filter by category and select an artwork image to open its…
Understand Appearance settings
For the complete artist website, open Website → Site design. Home, Work, About, Exhibitions, Contact and artwork detail pages share its fonts, colours, sizes, buttons, header, menu and…
Build and edit your Studio Operations Microsite (Website)
Open Website in the Studio sidebar to edit Home, About, Exhibitions, Press and Contact. Your Work page comes from your artwork records in Your works. View gallery controls…
Choose what collectors see in your public gallery
Studio Operations lets you decide which artwork facts appear publicly without changing the private artwork record.Open Appearance settingsIn Settings → Appearance, you can control the public information shown…
Control whether a published artwork appears in your public gallery
Published and shown publicly are related, but they are not the same setting.1. Publishing makes the artwork eligible to appear publiclyA Draft stays private. When you publish an…
What Draft and Published mean
Every artwork record is either a Draft or Published. These states describe the artwork record itself. Public visibility is a separate control.DraftA Draft is private. It stays in…
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