Background

How to change the overall look of your store, including light and dark looks, and where background images fit in.

On the new design system there is no background image or background colour setting for your whole store. Instead you choose a light or dark look for your store, and your brand colours are used on top of it.

This is deliberate. The background and the text on it are matched by the design so that everything on your store stays easy to read, on every page and every block.

Using one of our older designs? See Older designs at the bottom of this page.

Choose a light or dark look

1. Log in to your Freewebstore Control Panel.

2. Go to Design > Website Theme.

3. Click Design on the left, then Theme.

4. Click one of the looks shown, such as Pure or Parchment for a light background, or Charcoal or Noir for a dark one.

The change applies to your store as soon as you pick it. A theme changes the background colours behind your content; your brand colours stay the same.

On some designs you'll see Dark mode instead of Theme. Click it and turn on Enable dark mode for a dark background with light text, or turn it off for a light one.

Change your colours

Your four brand colours are used for buttons, links and highlights across your store. To change them, see Colors.

Add a picture behind your content

You can't put one image behind your whole store, but you can add blocks with a full-width photo and your own text over the top, anywhere on a page. Hero Banner works well at the top of a page. See Slideshow and Banners.

Older designs

If your store still uses one of our older designs, you can set a background image or colour:

1. Go to Design > Theme Editor.

2. Click Design at the top right and choose Background.

3. In the panel on the left, tick Enabled.

4. Click Add New Background Image to choose a picture, or pick a Color. You can also set how the image repeats, its position and size.

5. Click Save.