Project layouts

Index can lay out a project’s photos in six ways. The same post works with all of them, so you can switch at any time without changing your content.

Layout	What it looks like	Good for
Strip (the default)	Description on the left, photos side by side in a strip you scroll sideways	Most projects
Vertical	Photos run down the page, one under another, each with its caption. The description stays in view on the left. Landscapes fill the space; portraits step left and right.	Photo essays you want read in order
Grid	A contact sheet: every photo as a numbered frame. Pointing at a frame circles it, like a photo editor’s grease pencil.	Long series, or showing a whole body of work at once
Book	Like a photobook. The description sits on its own like a title page, and two portrait photos in a row share a spread.	Projects with many portrait photos
Salon	A gallery wall: photos hang at different sizes and heights	Looser, more playful series
Slideshow	One large photo at a time in the middle of the screen, with arrows either side	Single strong images that need room

In every layout, clicking a photo opens it full screen.

choose a layout for every project

Go to Settings, then Design & branding, then Customize, then the Theme tab.
Open the Post section and choose a Project layout.
Click Save.

Add one of these tags to the project in its post settings. It overrides the setting for that project only:

Tags that start with # are private, so visitors never see them.

On phones, every layout becomes a simple column so photos stay large.
Captions show under each photo in the vertical, grid, book, and salon layouts. In the strip and slideshow, the caption of the photo you’re looking at shows below it.
In the book layout, only portraits that come one after another are paired. To pair two portraits, put them next to each other in the editor.