Styling Your Kontainer

Whether setting up your brand new Kontainer or giving it a facelift, this guide is for you.

We keep adding to the system’s customization features so you can deliver the best user experience, making Kontainer a coherent part of your brand’s online presence.

Even for the hardcore Kontainer superuser, this guide most likely has something to offer, and you can always skip head.

Watch the video above or go through the written guide below.

Expanded Guides

Make Custom Landing Pages | Add a Brand Section | A Guide to Download Templates

Inspiration Links

Page Editor Design Suggestions | Brand Guide | Press Release

Share Your Designs

You are the experts, and we would love to share your designs as inspiration for other customers. Catch us at support@kontainer.com if we can share your creations or if you’d like some consultation.

GUIDE TO KONTAINER STYLING

Let’s go through all your current options starting with your login page.

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FOLDER STYLING
Manual Styling | Default Color Settings | Default Folder Style | Text Overlay

PAGE EDITOR
Text Presets | Access the Page Editor | Crop Your Images | Design inspiration

BRAND SECTION
Set Up Brand Section

CASE: ROLL OUT A BRAND GUIDE
Folder Structure | Design Brand Pages | Manage Access

GENERAL LOOK & FEEL

Adapting your Kontainer’s look and feel to match your visual identity is straightforward. The goal here is to make your Image Bank, DAM, Brand Portal or whichever name you know it by feel like a seamless extension of your brand.

As we keep adding to the system, this guide might change. If you are missing anything, let us know!

Login Background Image

The most salient component on your login page is the large background image that immediately impresses the user. This is a great place to present a strong brand, collection, or season asset.

Kontainer Login Page

Your background image specs:

JPG or PNG
Max size is 3000x2000px

You change the image under Settings – Appearance (General)

Welcome Message

You can also add a welcome message or an important user notice on your login page.

Example:

Welcome Text on Kontainer Login Page

Your Company Logo

The second thing you will want to add is your company logo. This is also added under Settings – Appearance (General).

The logo will be shown on your login screen, at the top left menu bar inside Kontainer and on any emails sent from the system.

Kontainer Asset Page

You can select:

Logo placement
Size
Background color (use, e.g., with white logo)

The logo should be uploaded as an SVG file to cover all uses mentioned above.

Color Settings

We recommend editing the color settings to match your brand. Go to Settings – Appearance (General) to change:

Highlight color – for selecting files, indication menu selection
Primary background color – used anywhere but in the left menu
Menu background color
Button color
Link color

Remember to Save your changes.

Favicon

Add your favicon under Settings – Appearance (General). The ICO format of your logo can be created here.

Here is your favicon

Browser Title

Along with the favicon, you’ll want to customize your browser title. Go to Settings – Configuration.

Kontainer Browser Title

We recommend making it apparent to your users that they have landed in your Image Bank, Brand Platform, DAM or PIM – depending on how you refer to it.

Example: Asset Bank | Sara’s Bike Shed

Global Folder Description

You can make a global folder description under the browser title in Configuration.

NOTE: This text will be visible in all your folders.

Kontainer Folder Description

This could be relevant if you have a generic copyright message that should be visible in all folders.

Sorting Order

The presentation order of your files and folders can be setup up differently depending on your needs.

Go to Settings – Configuration and select either:

Name (Alphabetical)
Size
Uploaded
Custom

Custom is the only setting that will let you manually rearrange the order of folders or files.

If you use any of the other options, you can manually select another option within an individual folder, but that changes the order in your view. Your other users will still default back to the general setting.

File View

The way you view your files is a global setting that you find under Settings – Configuration. You have three options:

- Box = equal-sized preview boxes

Kontainer Image Box View

List = standard list view

Kontainer Image List View

Grid = preview adjust to image/asset specs

Kontainer Image Grid View

These settings can be changed in the folder, but the changes would only be made locally in your view.

FOLDER STYLING

In this section, we will cover the styling of your folders. There are many ways to style your folders; here are some examples:

Examples of Folder Views in Kontainer

All folder styling settings are found under Settings – Appearance (Folder). Use the folder example to visualize your selections.

Once set, these presets will subsequently apply to all the folders you create.

Manual Styling

Folder-style settings will be used as the standard format when new folders are created.

But if you edit the folder style manually, these changes will be visible to all users. So, you can have these style presets that will be overwritten as you see fit.

Default Color Settings

These should all make sense without much explanation: Folder color, Folder icon color and File icon color.

The last color setting is Folder color overlay.

Kontainer Folder View, No Color overlay
Kontainer Folder View, Color overlay Added

This setting will add a color mask on top of any folders with images on them. The feature is helpful to make sure you can read the folder names if these are written across the folders.

Default Folder Style

Select a standard folder size and potentially a default folder image. Folder cover images are easily changed manually by right-clicking on a folder and selecting Upload folder image. Or you can right-click one of the images inside the folder and select Set as folder image.

The size of the image can be as follow:
350 x 430 px
350 x 230 px
170 x 120 px

Kontainer Folder View Sizes

Your folders can have either rounded or sharp corners, and you can choose to display small folder names below the folder or large folder names across the folders.

Here is also an option to set corner style for Top banners; I will explain this in the Page Editor section below.

Text Overlay

If the folder title should display across the folder, there are a few further selections to make. Set the text color, font and size. We currently support Google Fonts, which we can add at your request.

Kontainer Folder View, Text Overlay Settings

The above concerns the display of folders before they are selected.

In the next section, we look at how you can make landing pages inside your folders.

PAGE EDITOR

Try the Page Editor feature to improve the user experience and transform your folder into a landing page. You can add the following:

Text
Images
Gif’s
Videos

You can set internal links to folders and external links. See the full Page Editor video here.

Kontainer Custom Folder Page Design

Text Presets

Under Settings and Text Editor, you can predefine some text styles. These make it quick and easy to format text when designing new pages.

Select sharp or rounded edges on the visual assets you add to your designs in the folder settings under Settings – Appearance (Folder).

Access the Page Editor

The Page Editor is accessed inside your folder in the top right corner under the three-dotted More menu.

Access Page Editor in Kontainer

Here you can add new elements, edit and rearrange them. See the full Page Editor video here.

Crop Your Images

Set up download templates that match your content boxes to get images that slot straight into your page designs.

Kontainer Custom Folder Page Design, size examples

To see the complete guide to Download Templates here.

Page editor – Design inspiration

We have created just a few examples of what page stylings could look like.

Have a look and get some inspiration HERE.

BRAND SECTION

You can also add text to the bottom of the menu bar on the left.

Kontainer Brand Section

Here you can add sections with text, like contact details or a brand message.

You cannot see the section as an admin user, but you can activate it for all other user types and share links.

You can also add social media links and direct traffic from Kontainer to your channels.

Set Up Brand Section

To create a Brand Section, go to Settings – Brand Section. And just underneath, you can set and activate your social media links.

Check out our Brand Section guide here.

CASE: ROLL OUT A BRAND GUIDE

Use the customization features in Kontainer to make a brand guide that is easy to navigate, with pages that can be shared externally and others for internal use only.

Other uses could be a press kit or an event launch.

Folder Structure

First, make a Brand Guide folder and determine which subfolders you need.

Set up all the subfolders that could be relevant for you. Access can be differentiated internally and externally between teams, companies, etc. (See below)

Example of Brand Guide structure set up in Kontainer

Your needs might differ from the example above, which serves as inspiration.

Design Brand Pages

Once you have mapped the structure, you can start building your brand pages with text, images, video and gifs.

Go to a folder and find the Page Editor under the three-dotted More menu in the top right corner.

Example of Brand Guide set up in Kontainer, Color Section

Manage Access

Set permissions by user or user group in the Access menu.

Manage User Access in Kontainer

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That was it; our short styling guide.

We can’t wait to see how you will customize your Kontainer!