InstaShow “UI” Tab and How to Make Plugin User-Friendly
We at Elfsight continue the series of beginner’s guides for our products. Learn everything about their customization and you will be able to use plugins at full power. Today’s article will tell you about the third “UI” tab of Instagram feed InstaShow. The sensible configuration of user interface will look good for your audience.
Create a Foolproof Instagram Gallery
Clarity is the essential part of any Instagram Feed Widget. For sure, the whole purpose of UI is to let visitors easily interact with all website elements. If users can’t at once understand how to slide some content or just close it then it leads to frustration and confusion. These are not the exact emotions you are planning to give people, right? The ultimate goal of InstaShow is to make your audience engaged. That’s why the neat interface when you embed Instagram is a necessity for our plugin. We add a level of polish to the UI and make it eye-candy at the same time. Elfsight Instagram feed includes 14 customizable parameters for the best user experience.Set up these controls as you want and achieve great user experience!In InstaShow admin panel you are free to change the following settings:
- Controls
- Direction
- Animation effect
- Popup settings
- Free mode
- Autorotation
- Image opening mode
Controls Parameters
Choose how your visitors will scroll through images in the Instagram feed. Our plugin includes three various controls: arrows, scroll and drag. You can choose one, two or three controls straight away.Tip: We don’t recommend to use the scroll option in case your gallery has the full-screen width. This would make difficult to scroll your web page.In addition, you can turn on:
- free mode This allows turning over photos by one column at a time.
- loop option It will also come handy, especially if the number of images restricts your feed. It starts the gallery from the beginning each time the audience come to the final photo.
- scrollbar Don’t forget to check scrollbar. It will show visitors where they are .right now.
Direction Parameters
You can scroll the gallery in horizontal or vertical direction. Choose wisely taking into account the overall design of your website.Tip: Don’t make automatic scrolling too fast so that your audience could view all photos on each gallery page.
Animation Effects
After you customize direction of your gallery, it’s now the turn of animation. Are you interested in a pleasant photo browsing? InstaShow will meet this requirement. Choose slide or fade animation effect and animation speed in milliseconds. This will result in how fast slide/fade effect will act.Popup Settings
By the way, our widget has one hot option that comes in handy absolutely for any case. Yes, we are talking about super Popup, which UI you can adjust as well. The major part of our clients turns on popup in their feeds to induce an audience to dive into Instagram content. So the proper functioning of this options will play into your hands.Tip: We recommend you to use popup mode as audience will stay on your website.Next are popup switch speed and easing options. Adjust them to guarantee a comfortable image scrolling. In addition, our gallery widget is a polyglot. There are 16 languages for comfortable working in any community. By the way, you are able to select where specific photos will be shown. Choose popup mode to show each photo on your site. Instagram mode will show the same right in Instagram.
Get Our Support
That’s all for now. Hope our UI guide will help you make the most of your Instagram feed InstaShow. And stay in touch with our blog! We are going to publish new articles for our top-trending plugins. Don’t hesitate to reach us in Elfsight Support Center. Just submit a ticket and we will make everything clear!Learn More about InstaShow in Our Guides
- InstaShow “Source” Tab Guide
- InstaShow “Sizes” Tab Guide
- InstaShow “UI” Tab Guide
- InstaShow “Info & Style” Tabs Guide (coming soon)