Hello, on my shop https://beta.folksy.com/shops/TheClockworkJewel under the title banner, there is a strip of bright coloured half moon shapes, which are completely out of sync with my shop colours (mainly browns and golds). Can I remove it or change the colours? All help most appreciated, thanks, Michelle
Theyâre part of the folksy branding so donât think thereâs much you can do about it.
By the way I LOVE your jewellery - if I were a jewellery person (which Iâm not) Iâd definitely be choosing something from your shop ^^
theyâre really not very steampunk colours, are they? stephanieâs right though.
Thank you, how lovely of you to say
No they arenât and Iâm not happy about it all because itâs so incongruous, it stands out and makes the design look bad. How annoying! They could at least have given a dark colour scheme option.
Anyone familiar with the site though will recognise it as generic branding. I barely notice it any more.
Itâs the people coming from outside, customers who arenât familiar with Folksy that worry me. If itâs the main name âFolksyâ in those colours fair enough, but a random line of coloured half moonsâŚit looks awful on my shop.
If you really donât want them , you can choose not to use the large feature photos, then they will vanish.
Not ideal but a solution .
I can see what you mean, but to the average viewer itâs probably very insignificant. I just had to go and search for what you meant, it doesnât stand out to me. I wouldnât worry about it, every shop will have the same line of colours there.
Aha, that is a possible solution indeed, I;d rather have them, but they are not essential, and having shown the changes to several people I know, they all say it looks odd. Great on other peoples shops that have the same kind of colours, detracting on mine. Design makes more of a difference than people think. Thank you Deborah
have to say now youâve taken it away I do prefer the non-pastel-colourful âatmosphereâ in your shop.
Thanks Nifty, Iâve been designing for years, so it was more glaring for me, but still, it wasnât right, and actually I think I prefer the shop without the featured items anyway as itâs makes a longer scroll until the the main pieces come up. So Iâm happy enough now Michelle.
Must admit it does look better now.
I do know what you mean, those coloured bits look fine in my multi coloured ffflowers shop but I wonât be having any featured items in my other shop because they would just look totally wrong.
Yes, it makes a difference and I wonât be growling whenever I look at my shop heh
At least it can be taken away, though itâs clearly something that hadnât occurred to them when designing the new shop fronts. Still, if enough people are bothered maybe theyâll implement a choice for the colours at a future date.
I was one of testers for the new shop fronts and mentioned in my feedback that the pastel design didnât sit well with my items. I hoped that as one of the aims of the re-design was âLess Folksy brandingâ that this might be taken on board. So I would be happy to see some choices introduced in the future too. Alison
Hi Alison, thanks for that
I sent a query to the people behind Folksy and they replied with this one line -
âIâm very sorry, this is a design feature on Folksy and canât be changed.â - So I told them how actually you CAN get rid of it by not using the âfeatureâ photos, which isnât ideal, but does get rid, and perhaps they might jot that down so that they can help anyone else who asks. In a nutshell I got more help of this forum than the Folksy staff, who didnât tell me to just stop using the feature pics.
The more of us that mention it, perhaps they will take that on board and implement a new colour scheme option, or just allow the half moon shapes to be optional.