Site sections and hero designs (Site → Sections)

Every part of your site — the hero banner, content cards, join form, menus — comes in multiple ready-made designs called variants. The Sections page is where you pick which design each part of your site uses.

Finding the page

Go to Site → Sections. The parts of your site are grouped into tabs:

• Items — the cards used for individual scenes, photos, and thumbnails.
• Sections — larger homepage blocks like the hero and featured rows.
• Details — layouts for scene and performer detail pages.
• Join — the design of your join/signup form.
• Menus — headers, navigation, and footer styles.
• All — everything on one tab.

Switching a design

1. Find the component you want to change. Each variant is shown as a card with a screenshot — hover over a card to see a short video preview of it in action.
2. Click the card you want. The change is saved and applied to your site right away — you'll see a confirmation like "Hero updated."
3. Use the card's preview link to open your site showing that variant before you commit — you can try a look without changing anything for your visitors.

The variant you're currently using is always shown first with a checkmark.

The Hero — your site's first impression

The hero is the large banner at the very top of your homepage, and it's the component most worth experimenting with. There are three hero designs:

• Featured Scene Slider Hero — automatically rotates through your latest or featured scenes (you choose the source and 1–8 slides), with titles, performer names, and a Join button. Scheduled scenes appear with an "Upcoming" badge, which is great for building anticipation.
• Single Featured Scene Hero — spotlights one scene, or — with Content source set to Custom assets — your own uploaded hero video and image. This is the only hero that accepts a custom upload; see Custom hero image and video: specs and how to upload for the recommended dimensions and file sizes.
• Hero Component with Featured Trailer — a slider layout with a large media area, headline, and prominent trailer/purchase buttons.

Choosing what video plays in your hero

The two slider-style heroes — Featured Scene Slider Hero and Hero Component with Featured Trailer — let you choose which video plays for each scene in the slider. In the hero's settings, set Hero video to one of:

• Use site setting (default) — follows your site-wide hover preview choice, including any per-scene overrides. Change it once in Site → Details and your hero follows along.
• Preview clip — always plays the scene's short preview clip (video thumbnail). Lightest option.
• Trailer — always plays the scene's trailer.

Your hero is the first thing every visitor loads, so weight matters here more than anywhere else on your site: trailers are often far larger than preview clips. If your homepage feels slow after switching to Trailer, that's usually why — see Using your trailer as the hover preview for the size trade-off.

Autoplay: rotating your hero slides automatically

Slider heroes can advance through their slides on their own, or wait for the visitor. In the hero's settings, set Autoplay slides:

• Off (default) — slides stay put until a visitor uses the arrows or dots.
• On — slides advance automatically.

Autoplay is off by default, including on sites that already had a slider hero — turning it on is a deliberate choice, so nothing changed underneath you.

Which is better depends on your slides. Autoplay means visitors see more of your content without doing anything, which helps when every slide is a strong release. Off gives people time to actually read a slide and click it — worth considering if your hero carries a promotion or a call to action you don't want sliding away mid-read.

The video on your Upcoming section

Your Upcoming section — the one teasing scenes you've scheduled for a future date — has the same kind of control. In its settings, set Upcoming video to:

• Preview clip (default) — the scene's short preview clip.
• Trailer — the scene's full trailer.
• Use site setting — follows your site-wide hover preview choice.

Note this one defaults to Preview clip, not to your site setting — so if you switch your site over to trailers, Upcoming keeps using preview clips until you change it here too.

Worth thinking about for upcoming scenes specifically: a trailer gives people more reason to come back on release day, but a preview clip keeps the page light. If your trailers are short, Trailer is the stronger tease.

Choosing which performers appear on your homepage

The performers section on your homepage can pull from either of two sources — pick one in the section's settings:

• Latest Models — your most recently added performers. Keeps the homepage fresh automatically.
• Featured Models — only the performers you've marked as featured, so you control exactly who's on display.

If a design asks for details first

Some variants need certain things to exist before they can go live — for example, a hero that plays trailers needs scenes with trailers, and a custom-media hero needs its video or image. If something's missing, a Required Details window opens when you select the variant so you can fill in what's needed. Complete it and the variant activates.

Tips

• Preview on mobile too — most of your visitors are on their phones.
• The trailer-slider hero effectively promotes your newest release for you: keep trailers on your recent scenes and it stays fresh automatically.
• Changed something but don't see it on the live site? Give it a couple of minutes and refresh — see Previewing your site, updates, and demo access.