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Understanding Page Designs, Album Designs, and Templates

Updated over a month ago

Vsble gives you a very flexible design system.
Each page and each album layout can be controlled separately for desktop and mobile, so you can create a website that looks strong on large screens and still feels practical and clean on phones.

This article explains how it works.


1. Each Page Can Have Its Own Design

Every page on your website can use its own design.

This means you are not limited to one single page layout across the whole website.
For example, your Home page can look completely different from your Portfolio, About, or Contact page.

You can choose the design for each page in the Design Panel.

Important

Each page can have:

  • one design for desktop

  • another design for mobile

So the same page can be styled differently depending on the device.

For example:

  • on desktop, a page may use a more spacious, editorial layout

  • on mobile, the same page may use a simpler and more compact design for easier scrolling

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Page design Selection for Desktop and Mobile

Page designs can be selected from different template styles or classic grid layout with different amount of rows.

Design selection for pages for desktop:

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Design selection for pages for mobile:

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2. Albums Can Also Have Separate Desktop and Mobile Designs

If a page contains albums, the albums also have their own design settings.

Just like pages, album layouts can be set separately for:

  • desktop

  • mobile

This is useful because album presentation often needs to work differently on different screen sizes.

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Example

You may choose:

  • a more elaborate, animated album layout on desktop

  • a more practical 2-column grid on mobile

This allows you to create a richer visual experience on large screens while keeping navigation simple and user-friendly on smaller screens.

Album design Selection for Desktop and Mobile

Album designs can be selected from different template style, classic grid layout with different amount of rows or vertical or horizontal scroll options with different captions placing options.

Design selection for albums for desktop:

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Design selection for albums for mobile:

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3. Album Designs Always Apply to All Albums on the Same Page

This is an important rule:

If you change the album design for a page, that design will apply to all albums on that page.

So album designs do not get assigned individually to each album.
Instead, the page defines how the albums on that page are displayed.

Example

If your page Portfolio contains the albums:

  • Fashion

  • Portraits

  • Travel

and you assign a certain album design to that page, then all three albums on that page will follow that same album design.

This keeps the page visually consistent.


4. Different Pages Can Use Different Album Designs

While all albums on one page share the same album design, different pages can use different designs.

That means:

  • Page A can use one page design and one album design

  • Page B can use another page design and another album design

Example

  • Your Portfolio page may use a minimal album layout

  • Your Journal page may use a more dynamic album layout

  • Your Archive page may use a clean grid-based album layout

So the design is consistent within a page, but does not need to be the same across the entire website.


5. What a Template Actually Is

A template in Vsble is not just one single design.

A template is a combination of:

  • page designs

  • album designs

  • desktop settings

  • mobile settings

So when you select a template, you are selecting a predefined combination of how pages and albums are designed across desktop and mobile.


6. Templates Can Be Changed Independently for Desktop and Mobile

One of the most powerful parts of the system is that you can change designs independently.

That means you can change:

  • the page design on desktop

  • the page design on mobile

  • the album design on desktop

  • the album design on mobile

all separately.

You are not forced to use the same design logic on every device.

Example

You could use:

  • a bold full-width page design on desktop

  • a cleaner stacked page design on mobile

  • an animated album layout on desktop

  • a simple 2-row grid album layout on mobile

This gives you much more control over how visitors experience your site.


7. You Can Save Your Own Template Setups

Once you have combined designs the way you want, you can save that setup as your own custom template.

This allows you to:

  • create your own design versions

  • switch between them later

  • restore a saved setup without rebuilding it again

Your saved template can include your chosen:

  • page designs

  • album designs

  • colours

  • fonts

  • page settings

  • desktop and mobile combinations

This is useful if you want to test different looks or keep several design directions ready to use.


8. Your Content Stays the Same

Changing designs does not remove your content.

Your:

  • photos

  • pages

  • albums

  • text

  • structure

remain in place and automatically adapt to the design you choose.

So you can redesign the look of the site without needing to rebuild the content itself.


9. In Simple Terms

Here is the easiest way to understand it:

Pages

Each page can have its own design for desktop and mobile.

Albums

Albums can also have separate desktop and mobile designs.

Important rule

All albums on the same page always share the same album design.

Templates

A template is a combination of page and album designs across desktop and mobile.

Flexibility

You can change all of this independently and save your own custom template versions.


Example Scenario

Let’s say you have two pages:

Portfolio page

  • Desktop page design: elegant editorial layout

  • Mobile page design: simplified stacked layout

  • Desktop album design: animated album preview

  • Mobile album design: clean 2-column grid

Journal page

  • Desktop page design: more minimal layout

  • Mobile page design: compact scrolling layout

  • Desktop album design: classic thumbnail view

  • Mobile album design: practical grid

In this case:

  • each page has its own design

  • albums on each page follow the album design assigned to that page

  • desktop and mobile can behave differently

  • everything remains flexible and consistent


Conclusion

Vsble’s design system gives you a lot of freedom without making things chaotic.

You can:

  • choose different designs for each page

  • set separate layouts for desktop and mobile

  • assign album designs per page

  • keep all albums on one page visually consistent

  • mix and save these settings as your own custom templates

This makes it possible to create a website that feels much more considered, refined, and device-appropriate — without having to rebuild your content every time.

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