Page layouts

Colour alone never stops two release pages looking identical. What actually makes a page feel like it belongs to a particular release is composition: where the cover sits, how big the title is, whether the services read as a labelled list or a row of marks.

So every smart link picks one of five layouts. It is a per-link choice, which means a moody album and a bright summer single can look like two different things while both still being yours.

Choosing a layout

1. Go to My Website then Smart Links.
2. Click Edit on the link you want to change, or New smart link to start a fresh one.
3. Scroll to the Look section.
4. Click the layout you want under Style. The one currently in use is outlined.
5. Click Save.

Layouts are a per-link setting. Changing one release page does not touch any other.

The five layouts

Classic

Centred cover art, then one clearly labelled row per service. This is the default and the safe choice, and it is what most releases should use. Every service is named, so nobody has to recognise a logo, and it reads the same way on a phone and on a laptop.

Pick it when you want the page to get out of the way.

Immersive

The cover fills the whole screen and the service buttons sit on top of it in frosted panels. It is the most dramatic of the five and it turns your artwork into the page rather than an image on the page.

Pick it when the artwork is strong and high contrast. Busy or pale artwork makes the buttons hard to read, and this is the one layout where weak artwork really shows.

Split

Cover on one side, title and services on the other. Widescreen and editorial, and it looks great when someone opens the link on a laptop. On a phone it stacks into a single column, so nothing is lost.

Pick it for an album or an EP where the artwork deserves half the screen.

Minimal

The title is the artwork. A large title, a small thumbnail, and the services as plain marks with no labels and no boxes.

Pick it when the release name is the hook, or when you want something spare and confident. It asks a little more of the fan, because they are recognising logos rather than reading names.

Compact

A round cover over brand-coloured buttons. It reads fastest of the five and it is the closest to a link-in-bio feel.

Pick it when most of your traffic is coming from a social bio and you want the fan to tap and go.

What every layout has

Whichever one you pick, the page carries the same things:

• Your cover art, sized to suit the layout.
• A play button on the cover when you have added a preview clip, so a fan can hear 30 seconds without leaving. On Immersive the play control sits on its own rather than on the cover, because the cover is already the whole page.
• Your title and artist name.
• A "Listen on" heading above the service list.
• A button for each streaming service, carrying that service's real logo.
• Your page actions, if you have added any. See Page actions.
• A footer with a privacy link and a way for the fan to change their cookie settings.

Layouts and colours are separate choices

The layout decides the arrangement. The colours are a separate set of controls in the same Look section, covering light or dark, your own accent and background, the button shape, and whether a blurred copy of the cover sits behind the page. All five layouts work with all of those.

See Theming your link page for the colour side.

Picking well

• One single, pushed hard in ads? Compact or Classic. Both get a fan to a service in one tap.
• Album with artwork you are proud of? Immersive or Split.
• A release where the name is the story? Minimal.
• Not sure? Classic. It is the default because it never lets you down.

What to do next

• Theming your link page to set the colours on top of the layout.
• Page actions to add something under the streaming buttons.
• Smart link analytics to see whether a layout change moved your click-through.