Tutorials
IMPORTANT! Boonika admin interface has changed so it looks different than the one in these tutorials. However, they will help You understand how to use your portfolio page.
Before we start we advise you to visit ‘How to use my Studio?’ page. Here you will find some useful tutorials. Especially if you are a Boonika newbie. There are many easy-to-modify options which will help you modify site to suit your needs. So let’s start.
Studio Category
The very first thing you will have to do is to set the Category for your Boonika Studio. That way you can be sure that it will be listed with other Studios from that same category which makes it a lot easier for clients to find you.
Video Tutorial
Creating Pages/Galleries and Projects
Creating Pages and Projects is really easy. It is also easy to modify or delete them later. Pages are ideal for more static content like galleries whit a lot of works or you can use them for text which describes your services more closer. They will by listed under ‘Portfolio’ list in your sidebar. Projects are more like every day posts where you can write about your most recent projects. For example, you did a web site and now you want to describe the whole process plus add some screen shots. Your Projects will be listed under ‘Projects’ list in your sidebar. That’s it.
Video Tutorial – Creating Page
Video Tutorial – Creating Project
Projects – Adding Tags, Categories, Project Thumbnail and Project Info
It is important that you sort your Projects in Categories so clients can easily find them when searching through your Boonika pages. Display all the Projects which use similar key words – Tags. Project Thumbnail is needed if you’re displaying recent Project on your front page. If you don’t add it, default Boonika thumbnail will be used instead. Project Info includes; Client, Year and Tools.
Video Tutorial
Adding galleries (photos, images…) to your Pages
After you create a Page you can add gallery to it with just a few clicks.
Video Tutorial
Adding (embedding) videos inside your Projects or Pages
Just another ‘must have’ feature.
Video Tutorial
Changing Profile password
It is always wise to change your password once in a while.
Video Tutorial
Services
Make a list all of your proffesional services.
Video Tutorial
Set gallery page to be your home page
If you don’t like to write about your Projects and just want to add images to your site, you can use one of your galleries as your home page.
Video Tutorial
SEO Settings – Meta Tags
Having Meta Keywords helps search engines to index your site more eficently.
Video Tutorial
Privacy Settings
When you are doing some major changes to your Boonika pages you can hide your site from visitors and search engines.
Video Tutorial
Manage Availability
It is always wise to inform possible clients if or when you are available to do a job for them. This can be easily done by adding visible message on your pages. Just a few clicks and you’re done.
Video Tutorial
Using Syntax Highlighter (developers)
This is the proper way to display the ’source code’ by using Syntax Highlighter:
[ source:language] source code comes here [/source]
Important: Please note to NOT use a whitespace in the [ source:language] command like shown in Usage and Example below. If you copy & paste it, don’t forget to remove the space.
The Syntax Highlighter supports the following programming languages:
Cpp, CSharp, Css, Delphi, Java, JScript, Php, Python, Ruby, Sql, Vb, Xml
