Tustel documentation — Framer
Tustel for Framer is the original, free edition of the template: a portfolio for photographers and designers that you edit visually and publish from Framer.
It needs no code, and comes with projects and their galleries, services, testimonials, a journal, about and contact pages, and a project enquiry form. Read in this order, or jump to what you need.
| Guide | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Getting started | Getting your copy, the plan you need, a tour of the project, pages, the layout templates and breakpoints |
| The CMS | The four CMS collections, their fields, and adding projects, services, testimonials and posts |
| Making it look like your brand | Colour and text styles, fonts, components, logo, icons, images, motion |
| Forms | Sending the contact form to your email, a webhook or Google Sheets, and what its fields are called |
| Going live | Site settings, SEO, going live on a free or custom domain, after launch |
| Questions and answers | Questions and answers, and the demo leftovers to replace |
In a hurry
Section titled “In a hurry”- Copy the template into your Framer workspace with the remix link (Getting started).
- Change the colour styles to your brand’s in Assets → Styles (Making it look like your brand); every page follows.
- Replace the logo in the Logo component, and the photos.
- Replace the demo projects, services, testimonials and posts in the CMS (The CMS). Edit the text on the pages directly on the canvas.
- Give the contact form a destination (Forms): it has none yet.
- Write a title and description for every page, then Publish (Going live).
What is in the project
Section titled “What is in the project”- 8 kinds of page, 27 pages:
- Home, About, Portfolio (“Works” in the menu), Blog, Contact and 404;
- a page for every project (9) and post (12), generated from the CMS.
- 4 CMS collections: Portfolio (9), Service (5), Testimonial (3) and Blog (12).
- 3 breakpoints: Desktop (1200 px and up), Tablet (810–1199 px), Phone (up to 809 px).
- Styles: 9 colour styles, 13 text styles and 1 link style, used everywhere.
- Components:
- the header with its phone menu, the footer, the photo band and “Let’s work together”;
- buttons, menu links and the form’s button;
- project, service, testimonial, post and step cards, and the specialities card of the Home hero;
- two slideshows and the counters.
- Motion:
- the Home hero building up letter by letter, its three photos changing every 5 seconds;
- the client logos and the specialities scrolling past, the counters counting up;
- content fading up as it scrolls into view, page titles appearing word by word;
- orange hovers on the buttons, the menu and the project cards;
- the portfolio’s Catalog / List switch, the services and the testimonials slideshow on Home;
- Works and Blog loading more as you scroll;
- the header hiding and coming back as you scroll, and the phone menu.
Other editions
Section titled “Other editions”The same design is available as code: Next.js, Astro and HTML. A Figma file is coming; it will be listed on https://framebrick.co/templates/tustel.
Getting help
Section titled “Getting help”- Support and updates: https://framebrick.co/support.
- Want it done for you? Marcframe, the studio behind this template, updates templates to your needs, builds custom templates and designs new sites. It’s also on Contra.
- Framer itself: the Framer guides, Framer Help and Framer Academy.