Understanding Website Settings

Nov 12, 2024

This page explains Zimo Web settings.


Zimo Web provides a range of customization options through its settings system. Settings are categorized into Account, Theme, Interface, and Miscellaneous. This page explains each setting's functionality in this order.

Account

Account settings are those related to the account on Zimo Web.

  • Sync data: This enables the synchronization of account data, including settings, Theme Maker profiles, and Notebook pages across various devices. For this feature to work, the user must be logged into an account. Changes made to the account are uploaded to the cloud and downloaded, then applied when the user refreshes the page or logs in again. If disabled, the data on the current device remains unaffected by account data, regardless of login status.

Theme

Theme settings are those related to themes, profiles, and animated backgrounds.

  • Theme preset: This setting allows the user to pick a preset theme they want to use. Each page has its theme configuration, and users can only change the theme palette of the page they are on. On top of the default themes, more diverse themes are added through updates.
  • Theme profile: This setting allows the user to pick a theme profile created through the Theme Maker. It applies equivalent effects as the preset themes.
  • Background richness: This setting adjusts the complexity of the page's background animation. There are three options: minimal, reduced, and rich. Rich, the default option, offers elaborate animations but may impact performance and memory usage. The reduced setting provides a compromise for performance; it disables all animated objects while keeping the static backgrounds intact. The minimal setting retains only the gradient color background. The effect of this setting varies depending on the page's background.
  • Disable special theme: This setting disables special themes applied during seasonal events such as Halloween and Christmas. This setting is turned off by default.
  • Disable sound effect: This disables the sound effects in the Halloween theme's animated background. This setting only appears when the Halloween theme's animated background is active. It is turned off by default.
  • Always enable fireworks effect: This ensures that the fireworks effect in the Perpetuity theme's animated background will always show up. This setting only appears when the Perpetuity theme's animated background is active. It is turned off by default.
  • Floating code rate: This adjusts the floating rate of the code animation, exclusive to the projects page's default theme background, with five preset rates available, and is only present when the animated background is active. Setting the rate excessively high may impact performance, as indicated by a warning message. The default setting is normal.
  • Birthday balloon rate: This adjusts the rate of the birthday balloon animation exclusive to the Birthday theme animated background, with four preset rates available. Setting the rate excessively high may impact performance, as indicated by a warning message. The default setting is normal.
  • Spinning intensity: This adjusts the rate at which the golden sphere animation runs in the Gold theme. Setting this option to gentle indicates that the animation will perform at a low intensity, akin to a soft and gentle motion. Steady, the next level, operates the animation at a consistent and moderate pace. Dynamic, offers a lively and engaging speed, becoming the default value. Choosing vibrant will make the sphere spin with more energy and speed, and blazing is the most intense setting, causing the sphere to rotate rapidly, creating a dynamic visual effect.

Interface

Interface settings are those related to how you interact with Zimo Web.

  • Navigation bar: This toggles the visibility of the navigation bar, offering three options: disabled, always-on, and flexible. Flexible, the default setting, adjusts the navigation bar's visibility based on the user's scrolling behavior. The always-on option keeps the navigation bar visible, while the disabled option hides it, leaving only the settings button visible.
  • Number of windows: This setting adjust the maximum number of windows that can be launched from the Window Gallery. Windows that are not launched from the Window Gallery, including the Window Gallery itself, are not affected by this setting. There are four values: one, three, six, and twelve. Having too many windows running at the same time may impact memory and performance, as indicated by a warning message. The default setting is three.
  • Disable windows: This setting disable the window system in Zimo Web entirely. It is turned off by default.
  • Disable window saving: This setting, if turned on, prevents the opened windows from being saved between visits. It is turned off by default.
  • Disable window snapping: This setting prevents windows from snapping together after dragging. It is turned off by default.
  • Disable snap to screen border: This setting prevents windows from snapping to the screen borders. It is turned off by default and is overridden by the disable window snapping setting. It only appears when the disable window snapping setting is off.
  • Window resizing behavior: This setting adjusts the behavior of resizing windows. There are three modes: corner, center, and adaptive. Adaptive is the default behavior, and it resizes the window with respect to the center while respecting the screen borders. Center also resizes the window with respect to the center but will ignore screen borders. Corner resizes the window from its upper-left corner.
  • Notification style: This setting adjusts the way the notifications of Zimo Web are displayed. There are three options: disabled, toast, and banner. Setting this entry to disabled simply disables the notification. Toast will make the notifications appear like a toast message near the bottom of the screen. Banner will make the notifications behave like banners popping from the screen's top. It is set to banner by default.
  • Number of banners for wide screen: This setting adjusts the maximum number of notification banners displayed at once on a wide screen. It only appears when notification style is set to banner. Four options are available: one, three, five, seven. It is set to three by default.
  • Hide color lookup panel: This setting controls whether the color lookup panel of the Theme Maker is hidden. This setting only appears in the Theme Maker page. It is turned off by default. This setting has no effect on the color lookup panel in narrower/mobile screens. A button in the sidebar of the Theme Maker window that controls the same setting is also available.
  • Expand Theme Maker to fullscreen: This setting controls whether the Theme Maker is expanded to fullscreen. This setting only appears in the Theme Maker page. It is turned off by default. A button in the Theme Maker controls this setting as well.
  • Optimize profile export: This setting controls whether the exported profile is optimized in file size. The optimization process involves removing some data in the theme profile that is kept in the Theme Maker but is not used in the rendering. While the rendered appearance of the theme remains the same, some information that is preserved upon switching gradient or favicon mode is trimmed in the process. This setting only appears in the Theme Maker page or if there is an active Theme Maker window. It is turned off by default. Clicking the theme export button while the shift key is pressed will also result in an optimized export.
  • Allow extended gradient: This setting controls whether the gradient stops editing bar in the Widget and Backdrop section of the theme maker will have its range extended. By default, stop pins range between 0 and 100. When enabled, the range extends from -300 to 400. Note that this setting has no effect on the favicon gradient stops. This setting only appears in the Theme Maker page or if there is an active Theme Maker window. It is turned off by default.
  • Enable color interpolation method: This setting controls whether the gradient color interpolation method editor will be available. This is an experimental feature using the latest web technologies, recommended for testing use. This setting only appears in the Theme Maker page or if there is an active Theme Maker window. It is turned off by default.

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous settings are those that don't belong to a specific category but still allows you to adjust Zimo Web experience.

  • Gallery mode: Turning this on displays all photos from every entry on the main page, rendering the individual entries inaccessible via image clicks. A pill-shaped button on the main page also toggles this setting. This setting only appears in the album page. It is turned off by default.
  • Disable entry pop-up: When enabled, this setting bypasses the pop-up for entries on desktop screens, redirecting directly to the page. This setting only appears in the album and projects pages. It is turned off by default.
  • Disable table of contents: This setting disables the table of contents that is seen in the articles to help navigate through sections. This setting only appears when there is a table of contents somewhere. It is turned off by default.
  • Disable comments: This setting hides the comments section site-wide, preventing users from posting or viewing comments. It is turned off by default.
  • Disable serif font: This changes the font style in blog articles from serif to sans-serif. This setting only appears in the blog page or if there is a blog window currently open. It is turned off by default.
  • Disable gestures: This disables specific control gestures. For instance, with this setting enabled, the image viewer on album and project pages will no longer respond to trackpad or touchscreen gestures. It is turned off by default.
  • Enable calculator button border: This setting enables the border on the calculator's buttons. This setting only appears if there is a calculator window currently open. It is turned off by default.