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Choose your website's theme

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church staff
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On this page
  1. The themes
  2. Try a theme, then apply it
  3. Good to know
  4. What DCX support can do
  5. If something isn’t right

A theme is the whole design of your website: its layout, type and spacing. Your colours (palette and accent), your typeface and your logo carry into whichever theme you choose, and your pages stay exactly as you wrote them. Changing theme never changes your content.

The themes

Theme What it looks like Who can use it
Standard Clean and familiar: cards, clear buttons, comfortable spacing. Every church starts here. Every church
Editorial Large serif headlines, photographs edge to edge and more white space, like a magazine. Lists are separated by thin rules instead of boxes. Every church
Revival Big centred headlines, photographs in rounded frames, white and grey sections, and a header that stays in view. More Every church
Premium Further designs, as DCX adds them. Marked Premium. Churches on Pro or Elite
Made for your church A design DCX builds for one church. Marked Made for your church. The church it was made for

Standard, Editorial and Revival all work with all four palettes and are checked for readable contrast in each.

Try a theme, then apply it

  1. Go to Website → Look. Theme is the first section.
  2. Choose a theme’s card. HoW shows your own home page in that theme, right there, so you can see your real content in the new design. To look at it full size, choose Open the preview in a new tab.
  3. Happy with it? Choose Apply {theme name} and confirm: “Your website will use {theme name} for every visitor.” Changed your mind? Choose Keep {current theme}.

Visitors see the new theme on their next page view. Nothing else changes: your pages, menus, forms and colours stay as they are.

Who can do this: applying a theme needs permission to manage the church’s settings (usually the owner). Other staff who can see the Look page can look at the themes and previews.

Good to know

  • The preview isn’t on your website. It lasts 30 minutes; visitors keep seeing your current theme until you apply a new one.
  • Nothing to preview? If your website has no home page yet, create and publish one first (Website → Pages).
  • A premium theme you can’t choose shows “Available on Pro and Elite”. Premium themes come with the plan; they are not sold one by one.
  • If your plan changes to one without premium themes, your website uses Standard from the next page view. Your choice is remembered, and moving back to Pro or Elite brings your theme back. The same happens if a theme made for your church is withdrawn.
  • Switching back and forth is safe. Apply Standard again at any time.

What DCX support can do

DCX support can see which theme your church uses and which ones your plan allows, and, with your permission, look at your Look page with you in a support session. DCX can build a theme made for your church and turn it on for you.

If something isn’t right

  • The preview says it could not be prepared: choose Try again. If it keeps failing, tell DCX support.
  • “Your website has no active address on HoW”: your website’s address isn’t set up yet; ask DCX support.