Images and media

Media is the workspace shelf, shared by every website you own. Upload files by dropping them in, or let an image field upload for you the first time you use one. JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP and SVG are accepted, up to 10 MB each.

SVG is worth a note: it is a drawing rather than a photograph, so it stays sharp at any size. Logos and icons belong in SVG where the source is available.

Folders are for people, not for the website: they organise the shelf without changing anything about how images are used. Folders can sit inside folders, three levels deep: open a folder, then New folder makes one inside it. Removing a folder removes the folders inside it too, and their images stay in the library, in no folder.

Pictures uploaded on a product file themselves under Products, in a folder named after the product, and pictures for a category under Categories. Rename the product or category and its folder follows, unless you have renamed the folder yourself. Choosing a picture that is already in the library never moves it.

Right-click a picture, or use its menu, to rename and describe it, download it, copy its link, move it to another folder or delete it. Search finds by file name, so tidy naming at upload pays off. Using the same image in several places is normal and costs nothing; it is one file on the shelf.

Images appear in different shapes around a site: wide in a hero, square in a card, tall on a phone. The focal point tells CubeSites which part must not be cropped away. Drag the dot onto the face or the subject, and every shape crops around it.

A picture that keeps cutting someone's head off in one place is almost always a missing focal point rather than a wrong picture.

The Generate tab in the image dialog makes a picture from your description: "a van parked outside a terraced house, warm afternoon light". Results cover AI images on the allowance shown in the Media card.

Generated images arrive with an empty description field. Fill it in like any other image, and treat the result as a starting point: replace anything that claims to show a real place, product or person with a real photograph of it.