Bring your story to life
with five new Shorthand features
Introducing more ways to start stories, Media Gallery carousel, animations, enhanced 3D effects, and shaped media.
Bring your story to life with five new Shorthand features
Introducing more ways to start stories, Media Gallery carousel, animations, enhanced 3D effects, and shaped media.
You’ve drafted the story, and gathered the perfect imagery — now it’s time to bring it all together in a captivating way. The visuals can’t merely accompany the words, they need to bring them to life.
We’re excited to introduce five new features to help you design a powerful story that utilises media to immerse your audience. From starting with a bang to fresh ways to display imagery including carousels, animations, new 3D effects, shapes and corners. Read on to learn how to elevate your stories and find quick video tutorials to get started with each feature.
Start any way you want
First impressions matter. Now you can make sure you get off on the right foot by starting your Shortand story with your choice of any section type. Set the tone, tailor to your audience, control the pace of the story, or focus on immediate visual impact. Start crafting distinctive openings that amplify your story or brand.
When creating a blank story, you’ll now be prompted with a section chooser showing all available section types (like Scrollmation, Grid, or Media). Additionally, you can now add H1 text to any section type using text blocks, not just the title section. This allows everything to remain professional and semantically correct, for improved accessibility and SEO performance.
Start any way you want
First impressions matter. Now you can make sure you get off on the right foot by starting your Shortand story with your choice of any section type. Set the tone, tailor to your audience, control the pace of the story, or focus on immediate visual impact. Start crafting distinctive openings that amplify your story or brand.
When creating a blank story, you’ll now be prompted with a section chooser showing all available section types (like Scrollmation, Grid, or Media). Additionally, you can now add H1 text to any section type using text blocks, not just the title section. This allows everything to remain professional and semantically correct, for improved accessibility and SEO performance.
Start your story off with a bang by choosing the right section to begin with.
Start your story off with a bang by choosing the right section to begin with.
Elevate your gallery with a carousel
You’ve got a great narrative, but want to avoid overwhelming readers with a flood of images and videos. Our latest carousel feature for selected plans makes your content more interactive and captures focus one picture at a time.
Now you can display portrait and landscape media in a carousel instead of a grid to give each piece a moment in the spotlight. Users simply scroll to the side to reveal more images with optional captions like a slideshow. With carousels, you have the flexibility to play with dark and light backgrounds, choose between small, medium, and large displays, and switch between centre, left, or right alignment.
Elevate your gallery with a carousel
You’ve got a great narrative, but want to avoid overwhelming readers with a flood of images and videos. Our latest carousel feature for selected plans makes your content more interactive and captures focus one picture at a time.
Now you can display portrait and landscape media in a carousel instead of a grid to give each piece a moment in the spotlight. Users simply scroll to the side to reveal more images with optional captions like a slideshow. With carousels, you have the flexibility to play with dark and light backgrounds, choose between small, medium, and large displays, and switch between centre, left, or right alignment.
Use carousels to give all your imagery a moment in the spotlight.
Use carousels to give all your imagery a moment in the spotlight.
Animate to engage
Motion adds life to stories, and a little bit of magic too. Our latest scroll-triggered animations for foreground media elements, available on selected plans, helps to increase engagement and highlight media. Make sure no one misses key images or videos with animations that draw attention and break the monotony of static content.
Get creative by applying three preset animations (fade, zoom, and slide) or tailor a custom option with specific fade, zoom, slide, rotate, and speed settings. Preview to see these animations in action, and apply to whole sections for a cohesive, on-brand look and feel.
Animate to engage
Motion adds life to stories, and a little bit of magic too. Our latest scroll-triggered animations for foreground media elements, available on selected plans, helps to increase engagement and highlight media. Make sure no one misses key images or videos with animations that draw attention and break the monotony of static content.
Get creative by applying three preset animations (fade, zoom, and slide) or tailor a custom option with specific fade, zoom, slide, rotate, and speed settings. Preview to see these animations in action, and apply to whole sections for a cohesive, on-brand look and feel.
Use fade,
zoom,
slide, and more animations.
Immerse audiences with 3D effects
For truly immersive storytelling, make your story leap off the page with 3D effects for images in the Title or Text Over Media sections. Use dynamic effects like zoom, tilt, pan, or dolly — either individually or combined — to make your background images feel alive and bring your audience into the world you've created.
Immerse audiences with 3D effects
For truly immersive storytelling, make your story leap off the page with 3D effects for images in the Title or Text Over Media sections. Use dynamic effects like zoom, tilt, pan, or dolly — either individually or combined — to make your background images feel alive and bring your audience into the world you've created.
Immerse with 3D effects.
Get creative with shapes and corners
One last touch — now you can apply new and interesting shapes to inline media for a distinctive, or on-brand design. Differentiate or standardise imagery to enhance your content.
If you’re known for rounded corners or specific silhouettes, you can add customisation and presets into the theme builder or apply presets to entire sections to create consistency.
Get creative with shapes and corners
One last touch — now you can apply new and interesting shapes to inline media for a distinctive, or on-brand design. Differentiate or standardise imagery to enhance your content.
If you’re known for rounded corners or specific silhouettes, you can add customisation and presets into the theme builder or apply presets to entire sections to create consistency.
Play with different shapes and corners for your inline media to create stunning content.
Play with different shapes and corners for your inline media to create stunning content.
