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Designing Your Directory: Layout, Cards & Branding

Written by Melinda Haughey

This article is about the Proxi admin app at app.proxi.co.

The directory editor has a settings rail on the left and a live preview on the right, so you always see exactly what visitors will get. Settings are grouped into Data, Style, Card, and Access, and everything autosaves.

Your Directory's Header (Style → Display)

Open the Display section to set your directory's Name and Description. Prefer to keep those off the page? Flip on Hide header.

Colors, Font & Logo (Style → Branding)

Open Branding. Give the directory its own Primary color, Secondary color, Font family, Logo, and a wide Cover image banner. Leave anything blank to use your workspace's look. On a Premium plan you can also switch on Hide "Powered by Proxi" to remove the small credit from the footer.

Layout and Card Look (Card → Style)

Open the Style section under Card — this is where you set both how the whole directory is arranged and how each card looks.

  • Layout — how the cards are arranged:

    • Grid — fits as many cards per row as the space allows.

    • List — one per row, roomier.

    • Compact — a tighter list.

    • Editorial — a magazine-style write-up for each place, shown in full right in the list.

  • Detail view — what happens when a visitor opens a card: Expand in place, Popup, or Side panel. (Editorial layout shows the full write-up inline, so it has no separate detail view.)

  • Loading styleInfinite scroll (more load as visitors scroll) or Paginated (with a Results per page choice of 10, 25, 50, or 100).

  • Under the Cards heading, sliders to fine-tune each card — Corner radius, Padding, Image height, Title size, and Text size. The preview updates as you drag; leave them to use the defaults.

What's On Each Card (Card → Content)

The Content section is a drag-and-drop card builder. Drag the info you want onto the card and reorder it — you can pull from your listing info (description, address, and so on) and your collection fields.

  • Turn a link, phone, or email field into a button.

  • Show a choice field (like Category) as pills.

  • Control the photo: pick how images fit (Cover, Contain, Contain + blur, or Off), choose which photo fields show, and use the Auto-collected photos toggle if you'd rather show only photos you've added.

Because directory cards read from your listings and collection, updating a place's info once keeps the directory current everywhere it appears.

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