The Gallery's wall

In the Gallery layout, your site can show its work the way a gallery does: every piece hung at its real size on a long wall, so a visitor can judge how big it is. Choose whether the site opens on the grid or the wall in Layout. See Cards and Gallery layouts (ST-4).

What the wall shows

• The wall is 98 inches high, with a floor, a light above each piece and a bench in each room for scale. Its color follows your theme.
• Each piece hangs at its size from its Dimensions field, or from the Artwork schema's Size, at museum height; books stand on a ledge. A piece with no size hangs at the size Layout says, labeled size not given.
• Each label says only what is known: the title, the medium, the size, Sold when it is sold, and View details for its page.
• Rooms are your categories. When the schema has a Category pick-list, each category is a room with its name on the wall, and the room buttons above jump between them.
• Frames are the Frame option in Layout: wood, walnut, black, white or none.

What visitors do

• Walk along the wall with the arrows, the arrow keys, a sideways swipe on a trackpad, or a finger. On a phone, turning it sideways gives the wall the whole screen.
• Tap a piece to walk up to it: the wall grows around it until it fills the view. The arrows then step to the next piece. Tap again, or press Esc, to step back.
• Full screen (the button beside Grid and Wall) shows nothing but the wall.
• Grid and Wall switch between the two views.

On a piece's own page there is a Photo and Wall switch too: the piece alone on the wall, under its light, with the bench in front for scale.

Getting sizes right

The wall is only as true as your sizes. Give every piece a Dimensions field value, and check the warning when its proportions don't match its photo. See Dimensions and View on your wall (LS-8).