Theming your link page
Leave a release page to follow your website, or dress one release in its own colours without touching anything else.
Every smart link page can look after itself. Left alone it follows your website's theme, which means restyling your site restyles all of your link pages at once and you never have to think about it.
When a particular release calls for something else, the Look section on that link lets you override the theme for that one page. Nothing you set there touches your website or any of your other links.
Where the settings are
- Go to My Website then Smart Links.
- Click Edit on the link, or New smart link for a fresh one.
- Scroll to Look.
- Change what you want and click Save.
The Look section also holds the layout picker, which is a separate decision covered in Page layouts.
How the settings stack up
Three layers, applied in this order:
- Your website's theme. The starting point for every link page.
- Light or dark. A single choice that moves the background, the text, and the buttons together.
- Individual colours. Whichever ones you fill in, applied on top of everything above.
That order is why light or dark is usually the setting to reach for first. It gets you a readable page in one click. Individual colours are the escape hatch when you want something exact.
Light or dark
The Light or dark dropdown has three options:
- Use my site theme. The default. The page inherits from your website.
- Light. A clean light page regardless of what your site does.
- Dark. A dark page regardless of what your site does.
This is the one setting most people need. It is also the safest, because it moves every part of the page together rather than leaving you to match a background to a text colour by hand.
Individual colours
Four colour controls sit below, each with a swatch you can click and a field you can paste a colour code into:
- Accent. The highlight colour used across the page.
- Background. The page behind everything.
- Text. Your title, artist name, and labels.
- Buttons. The surface each streaming button sits on.
Every one of them is optional. Leave a control empty and it says From site theme, which means that part of the page keeps following your website. Fill one in and only that part changes.
Each filled-in control gets a Clear button next to it. Clearing hands that part of the page back to your site theme.
Pull the accent out of the artwork
The quickest way to make a page feel like it belongs to a release is to take a colour straight from the cover art and use it as the accent. It takes one paste and it is usually better than anything you would pick from scratch.
Button shape
The Button shape dropdown changes the corners on the streaming buttons:
- Use my site theme. The default, matching your website.
- Rounded. Softly rounded corners.
- Pill. Fully rounded ends.
- Square. Hard corners.
Small change, but it is a large part of whether a page reads as warm or sharp.
The blurred cover backdrop
Below the colours is a checkbox: Blur the cover art behind the page. It is on by default.
With it on, a soft blurred copy of your artwork sits behind the page, which ties the colours of the page to the colours of the release without you doing anything. Turn it off when you want a flat, plain background, or when the artwork is busy enough that the blur competes with the buttons.
This one interacts with the layout
On the Immersive layout the cover already fills the screen, so the backdrop is a much heavier presence than it is on the others. Look at Immersive with and without it before you decide.
Streaming service logos
Each button carries the real logo of the service it points at. You do not set these up, and you cannot get them wrong, which matters because a wrong Spotify mark on your own domain looks like your mistake rather than anyone else's.
A handful of services do not have an official logo available, and those buttons show a lettered badge in the service's colour instead. It still reads clearly, and the service name is on the button either way on most layouts.
TribeNest also checks that each logo stays visible against the background you chose. A logo that is pure black, for example, is adjusted rather than disappearing on a dark page, so a dark theme never quietly hides a button.
Making every link look the same
If you want all of your release pages to share one look, do not set anything here. Set the look on your website's theme instead and every link page follows it, including the ones you make later. See My Website.
Per-link settings are for the release that has to be different, not for the house style.
What to do next
- Page layouts to change the arrangement rather than the colours.
- Page actions to add a call to action under the streaming buttons.
- Editing and managing your links for the rest of the link form.