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When we designed the Pattern Designer showit template, we wanted to make something that reflected the creative Artists, Illustrators & Surface Pattern designers that would use it.
Inspiration for this design came from print magazines and books. Plus, we’ve included organic layouts and textures. This premium template breaks away from the common square, boxy look. And instead, the final website looks as unique as your work.
Built using the Showit website platform, you can move anything anywhere and scale & rotate as you see fit. (Not so with grid-based, boxy layouts on Platforms like Squarespace or Shopify.)
Use our 15 Showit Shortcuts to save time and frustration building your website. We’ve included keyboard and icon shortcuts to make the process smooth and easy.
By the end of this cheat sheet, you’ll feel like a Showit Star! Grab it HERE!
What you get with your Pattern Designer Showit Website Template
EXCLUSIVE – to the Pattern Designer Multi-Page
PLUS – all these sections from the Pattern Designer One-Pager
How Pattern Designer is different from other Website Templates
As an Artist, Illustrator, or Surface Pattern designer, you need a template that fulfils your particular needs plus is simple to use, update and publish.
What if you could have more time to work on your designs and less time worrying about how to build your website? Well, our Pattern Designer website template achieves all of that and more.
Using the Showit website builder, you can update the template using a drag-and-drop method – similar to the tools you may already be using – such as Adobe Illustrator, Indesign etc.
We’ve also designed Pattern Designer to strategically meet the needs of your potential clients and art directors.
Shop – Sell through your template or Print on Demand service
Blog – A WordPress blog. Includes Blog, Post and Category pages, all perfectly matched to the Pattern Designer theme
About Page – Dive deeper with an introductory section, Top 5 favourite things and Client Collaborations
Introduction – A Slideshow of your work that grabs your attention
Selected Work Portfolio – Art Directors love this scannable layout style!
Hidden Portfolio Pages – Tailored pages created for clients, Art Directors or projects
Divider sections – Divide content sections while showcasing your work
About You – A place to get to know you
Your Clients – Popular company logos included
Email Signup – Grow your list with an opt-in
Testimonials – Kind words from your favourite clients
Contact Form & Page – Automatically set up to your Showit email
Instagram Feed – Another way for clients to follow you
Footer – Custom icons with rollover animations
Each section of this mobile-friendly template has been designed and structured with you and your potential customers in mind.
We’ve included everything you need and left off any unnecessary bells and whistles that can end up turning potential clients away.
The result is a unique, easy-to-use (and navigate) website that potential Art Directors and clients will love.
This shop gives you two options:
1. Link to your favourite Print on Demand store (Etsy, Society6, minted, etc.) to process shipping and payment.
2. Sell directly through your store with Shopify Starter*.
(Subscription required at an additional $5 USD per month – as of March 2023).
Having all your products in one location (rather than across several POD storefronts) means people get to see more of your work and not be distracted by other artists’ products, as is the case on Shops like Etsy, Society 6 etc.
This means more chance of converting to a sale or purchases of additional items.
Firstly, we have included some of the most popular print-on-demand logos inside the template, including, Minted, Casetify, Etsy, and Spoonflower.
These P.O.D logos will also change colour to your brand colours. (As shown in the image above). Allowing them to perfectly gel to your brand theme.
And another bonus is that the animated products and hover states draw attention to the Individual Product Pages.
Showcase your work by providing different views – such as an overall view, then zoom in and provide details such as watercolour brush strokes, paper weaves, or hand-embroidered details.
We’ve set up the description section with guide text for you to follow, giving you tips on how to list your product and the details to include.
Here you can sell directly through your store or link out to your POD shop and let them take care of the production, billing and shipping.
You can also mix and match depending on your products. For instance, you can sell directly through your template for your handcrafted products while sending people out to several of your POD Stores for other items.
The Pattern Designer Showit template features a matching blog that incorporates the same style as the main Site.
Each blog feature image reflects the flowing organic style of the template.
Easily filter your blog posts by categories, which are updateable to ones that best suit you and your business.
List your top posts here or the ones you wish to promote – E.g. create a post on your winter range.
Lastly, your post feature image is loosely angled to reflect the smooth-flowing style of the Pattern Designer website.
Let viewers share your post on their social networks. The icon colours automatically update to your brand colours when you add them.
When visitors want to learn more about you, they can visit the About Page, which includes the following sections.
In this section, you can expand on yourself, your background, goals and philosophy.
Next, use this section as a fun and engaging way to show people more about what interests you.
Finally, think of this part as a place to showcase past projects and clients.
This is the opening slideshow gallery. Each slide also allows you to include your own messaging.
Here you can showcase your selected work, and latest project or include seasonal pieces of work.
Want to call it something else? No problem, change the title to suit.
When an Art Director comes to your website to look at your work, they are busy and don’t have time to search. So we created the perfect style gallery.
• Masonry Tiled Style Gallery
Or commonly known as Pinterest Style, creates a gallery that can be quickly scanned by Art Directors, buyers and potential clients.
• A Scannable Site
This is best practice because along with Art Directors, everyone is time-poor and using this layout makes it easier and quicker to find what they need.
• Close up enlarged view of your work
Art Directors can get frustrated when they click on a piece they like for a closer view, and nothing happens!
Not with Pattern Designer! Click on the piece and the image becomes full screen giving you a complete close-up, detailed view of the work with no distracting backgrounds.
Some potential clients may want to see more of your work, and this section gives them a way to contact you to do exactly that.
After they contact you, use the Hidden Portfolio Page template to tailor a portfolio to their requests. Then send them a personalised link to access. (This is all explained in our step-by-step guides included with your template).
Having a custom website page specifically for the client and their project makes the client feel special and shows that you care about the project.
The introductory section includes a space for your headshot, the client’s name, and the project you are pitching to.
A letter area can be used to thank the potential client for the opportunity and tell them why you are a good fit for the upcoming project.
Next up is the Selected Work section. Here you can upload relevant pieces and talk about each one’s relation to the client’s project.
Dividers help break up the content on your website, giving your website clearly defined sections.
Place an image of yourself and introductory text here to tell visitors about you.
The about section appears on the Homepage and is for a quick introduction. It features space for your photo and an introductory paragraph.
The inspiration section is where you can give the visitor an insight into what makes you-you!
Gain followers and clients through an email list.
Simply saying Join my newsletter, no longer works. Instead, get people on your mailing list by offering them a helpful incentive download.
Highlight great feedback and reassure your potential clients.
This section includes space for a headshot, testimonial and company name.
Make it easy for your potential customers to reach you with this simple-to-use form.
This form will automatically set up to link to the email address you used to sign up to Showit – no complicated setups here!
Pulls in images from your Instagram feed and displays them here.
Includes custom icons and rollover animations.
We’ve spoken to busy art directors and clients who told us they want to view a clean, scannable website. And they want to be able to find what they are looking for quickly.
We strategically designed Pattern Designer with this in mind.
As you enter your brand colours and font styles – the whole website template automatically updates its fonts, colours, logos and icons to match.
Breakaway from generic, boxy style layouts seen with Squarespace and Shopify to a template design that reflects you as a creative artist.
Unlike other website templates, every inspirational photo, illustration and, strategically written heading and body text comes with your purchase. Use these elements as a guide or as content for your site.
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