Finley Coming Soon and Portfolio Template Documentation
by:
mix_design
version: 1.0.0
created: 02.05.2023
last update: 02.05.2023
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Thank you for choosing Finley - stylish HTML template for creative projects. We have prepared detailed documentation to make Finley customization an easy task for you. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, you can email us on support@mixdesign.club.
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Follow the steps below to setup your site template:
In order to start working with Finley unzip the downloaded package and open HTML folder to find all ready-to-use template files. Choose one of the demo *.html files (any ready-to-use demo you like) and rename it to index.html.
Next you’ll need to prepare a project for customization. Below is a list of files and folders that are required in the root directory of your project:
index.html - your chosen *.html file (renamed already);css folder - stylesheet files;js folder - JavaScript files;fonts folder - icon and lining nums fonts files;img folder for project images and favicon;video folder - project video files;mail.php file for sending e-mails;.htaccess - this file contain rules for files caching on web server;The other files can be used according to your preferences.
Your project is ready to go! Now you can start adding your texts, images and video to your new awesome website.
After the customization is over, you’ll need to upload the project files to your hosting web server using FTP client or cPanel interface in order to use it on your website.
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After downloading and extracting template package you will find 3 folders:
This section describes
HTML
folder structure. More about
FinleyGULP
folder structure you can find out in
FinleyGULP
section.
Finley is one page HTML template. So, mostly you will need one
*.html
file and supporting
*.css,
*.js,
*.php
files with some images. All the directories and files are well organized as it shown on the image bellow.
source-files folder contains all expanded CSS files, expanded JavaScript files, plugins and components files;mail.php file for sending e-mails is located in the root directory;.htaccess file is located in the root directory. This file contain rules for files caching on web server.Finley is one page HTML template and comes with 3 homescreen variations and 12 ready-to-use demo pages:
Dark Version
Light Version
Finley has a simple and easy to customize structure based on Bootstrap 5.2.3 Grid. Here is a sample page structure:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
Meta tags, Title, Favicon and Icons, Facebook Metadata, CSS, Custom Browser Color
</head>
<body>
<!-- Loader Start -->
<div class="loader">
...
</div>
<!-- Loader End -->
<!-- Noise Start -->
<canvas class="noise"></canvas>
<!-- Noise End -->
<!-- Header Start -->
<header id="header" class="header">
...
</header>
<!-- Header End -->
<!-- Navigation Start -->
<nav id="nav" class="nav">
...
</nav>
<!-- Navigation End -->
<!-- Main Section Start -->
<section id="main" class="main active">
...
</section>
<!-- Main Section End -->
<!-- About Section Start -->
<section id="about" class="inner about">
...
</section>
<!-- About Section End -->
<!-- Works Section Start -->
<section id="portfolio" class="inner works">
...
</section>
<!-- Works Section End -->
<!-- Contact Section Start -->
<section id="contact" class="inner contact">
...
</section>
<!-- Contact Section End -->
<!-- Notify Popup Start -->
<div id="notify" class="popup notify">
...
</div>
<!-- Notify Popup End -->
<!-- Custom Cursor -->
<div class="cursor"></div>
<!-- Root element of PhotoSwipe. Must have class pswp. -->
<div class="pswp" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-hidden="true">
...
</div>
<!-- Load Scripts Start -->
...
<!-- Load Scripts End -->
</body>
</html>
Finley template CSS files have a well-organized structure and a table of contents, as you can see on image below:
All CSS files are placed in
css
folder and have to be included in the
<head>
tag.
Finley uses uncompressed CSS files.
If you want to improve Google PageSpeed Insights performance, you can use minificated files from
source-files → finley-css-min-files.
<!-- Template Styles Start-->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/loaders/loader-*.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/plugins.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css">
<!-- Template Styles End-->
CSS files that have to be included in chosen .html file:
loader-*.css
plugins.css
main.css
If you want to customize CSS styles, We recommend to create your own
custom.css
file and include it to
Template Styles
section of the
HTML
file. This solution will help you in future updates.
* - Preloader color name
All JavaScript files are placed in
js
folder and have to be included before the
</body>
tag.
libs.min.js - all JavaScript libraries that are necessary for Finley proper work, are сompiled in this file;noise.js - background noise;gallery-init.js - for photoswipe gallery initialization;custom.js - includes other scripts calls and settings;
<!-- Load Scripts Start-->
<script src="js/libs.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/noise.js"></script>
<script src="js/gallery-init.js"></script>
<script src="js/custom.js"></script>
<!-- Load Scripts End-->
We used minificated
libs.min.js
file to add all necessary JavaScript libraries to this template. The file contains:
All this uncompressed files you can find in the source-files folder.
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In Finley template we used DM Serif Display Font, Plus Jakarta Sans Font and Fontawesome 6.4.0 Free Iconic Font.
Finley uses
All fonts are embedded in the main.css file:
@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Plus+Jakarta+Sans:ital,wght@0,200;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;0,800;1,200;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700;1,800&display=swap");
@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=DM+Serif+Display:ital@0;1&display=swap");You can customize these fonts or embed another fonts for your project with Google Fonts. In this case, you'll also need to change the fonts in the css files per your fonts used.
Finley uses free version of FontAwesome 6.4.0 iconic font. You can use fontawesome.com/icons page to easily find the icon you want to use. Solid, regular and brands icons are already compiled in the plugins.css file and ready for use.
To change icons, just change the class names: fa-solid fa-heart, fa-brands fa-instagram, fa-regular fa-address-book.
<li>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank">
<i class="fa-brands fa-facebook"></i>
</a>
</li>More information about FontAwesome you can find on official documentation website - FontAwesome Docs.
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Finley covers almost all platforms design requirements for favicon and icons:
Classic favicon:
<link rel="icon" href="img/favicon/favicon.ico" sizes="any">
Android Web App Manifest & Apple Touch Icon:
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="img/favicon/apple-touch-icon.png">
<link rel="manifest" href="img/favicon/manifest.webmanifest">
Universal SVG Icon for All Sizes ang Dark & Light Browser Color Themes:
<link rel="icon" href="img/favicon/icon.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
Facebook Metadata:
<!-- Facebook Metadata Start -->
<meta property="og:image:height" content="1200">
<meta property="og:image:width" content="1200">
<meta property="og:title" content="Finley - stylish HTML template for creative projects">
<meta property="og:description" content="Finley - Finley - awesome coming soon template to kick-start your project">
<meta property="og:url" content="http://mixdesign.club/themeforest/finley/">
<meta property="og:image" content="http://mixdesign.club/themeforest/finley/favicon/og-image.jpg">
<!-- Facebook Metadata End -->
You can use Finley favicon as an example or generate new one with Favicon Generator or any other favicon generator by your needs.
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Finley template comes with easy-to-customize page elements. You can choose from 8 redy-to-use demo files, 2 color themes, 3 homescreen versions, various backgrounds and much more.
Loader will hide contents of your site until it's fully loaded.

If you want to customize or remove loader, find this code in *.html file:
<!-- Loader Start -->
<div class="loader">
<div class="loader__content">
<div class="loader__logo">
<img src="img/logo-light.svg" alt="Finley - Stylish HTML Template for Creative Projects">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- Loader End -->Loader styles are included in the <head> tag:
<!-- Template Styles Start-->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/loaders/loader-*.css">
...
<!-- Template Styles End-->* - loader color name. You can choose between dark and light versions.
Finley template provides 2 color skins and 8 ready-to-use demo pages. All colors are compiled in the main.css file. You can change element's colors by using dark and light classes.
More beauriful color skins are coming soon in the next update!
The logo container is located in the header of the template - header class="header".

<!-- Header Start -->
<header id="header" class="header">
<div class="header__container d-flex justify-content-between align-items-center">
<!-- Template Logo Start -->
<div class="header__logo">
<!-- Your Logo Here -->
<img src="img/logo-light.svg" alt="Finley Template Logo">
</div>
<!-- Template Logo End -->
...
</div>
...
</header>
<!-- Header End -->You can use SVG, PNG or JPG image for logo. If you want to use light color theme and change the logo color depending on the background, please provide 2 versions of your logo - light and dark. Next you'll need to follow these steps:
<!-- Template Logo Start -->
<div class="header__logo">
<!-- Your Logo Here -->
<img src="img/logo-dark.svg" alt="Finley Template Logo">
</div>
<!-- Template Logo End -->.header__logo in the main.css file: .header.inner-is-visible.light-bg .header__logo::after {
opacity: 1;
background-image: url("../img/logo-light.svg");
}If you are using SVG, create PNG fallback image for old browsers. It'll be replaced automatically if needed.
All images used in the Finley template live demo are just for preview purpose only and they are not included in main download files. You easily can find all images on unsplash.com or pexels.com. We are using placeholders from dummyimage.com instead of real images. You can easily replace placeholder URL with a path to your image like img/yourimage.jpg.
All tmplate background images you can replace in the main.css file:
/* ------------------------------------------------*/
/* Template Backgrounds Start */
/* ------------------------------------------------*/
.media-1 {
background-image: url("https://dummyimage.com/960x1080/383838/8d8d8d");
}
...
/* ------------------------------------------------*/
/* Template Backgrounds End */
/* ------------------------------------------------*/Finley template comes with 1 header type with left aligned logo and right aligned menu button on mobile and desktop.
Desktop view:

Mobile view:

<!-- Header Start -->
<header id="header" class="header">
<div class="header__container d-flex justify-content-between align-items-center">
<!-- Template Logo Start -->
<div class="header__logo">
...
</div>
<!-- Template Logo End -->
<!-- Header Controls Start -->
<div class="header__controls">
...
</div>
<!-- Header Controls End -->
</div>
<!-- Header Underlines Start -->
...
<!-- Header Underlines End -->
</header>
<!-- Header End -->Finley template comes with 3 beautifully designed layouts with various animated backgrounds. Backgrouds settings you can find in the Animated Backgrounds section of this file.
1. Split layout with big headline, countdown and various backgrounds. Beautifully designed layout with large size headline, big countdown timer and animated backgrounds. Animated backgrounds settings you can find in Animated Backgrounds section of this file.

Replace this headline demo text with your own:
<!-- Headline Start -->
<div class="headline">
<span class="headline__subtitle">Creative agency</span>
<h1 class="headline__title large">Visual<br><span class="outline-white">solutions</span></h1>
</div>
<!-- Headline End -->2. Fullscreen layout with large headline and various backgrounds. Animated backgrounds settings you can find in Animated Backgrounds section of this file.

Replace this headline demo text with your own:
<!-- Headline Start -->
<div class="headline-special">
<h1 class="headline__title xlarge">
<span class="left">Nice to</span>
<span class="right"><em class="right-star">meet</em> <em class="outline-white">you</em></span>
</h1>
<span class="headline__caption">Our new <em class="italic">website</em> is on the way</span>
</div>
<!-- Headline End -->3. Split layout with medium headline, countdown and various backgrounds. Animated backgrounds settings you can find in Animated Backgrounds section of this file.

Replace this headline demo text with your own:
<!-- Headline Start -->
<div class="headline">
<span class="headline__subtitle">Creative agency</span>
<h1 class="headline__title">We are preparing
<span class="italic">something amazing</span>
for you. Special surprise for our
<span class="bold">subscribers</span>
only.
</h1>
</div>
<!-- Headline End -->07
Finley template comes with days only countdown, which is used on split and fullscreen layouts in the different variations:
#countdown
#countdown
Finley template comes with KBW Countdown Plugin. This plugin can be tricky to set up, but it is very flexible and has a lot of features.
For more details you can see documentation reference page: keith-wood.name/countdownRef.html or see a minimal page with basic settings: keith-wood.name/countdownBasics.html. In our case we are using UTCDate function. (You can also find this function in documentation reference page):
$.countdown.UTCDate(tz, year, month, day, hours, mins, secs, ms)
tz
- timezone offset, either in hours or minutes, from GMT, for example, Brisbane, Australia, would be +10 or +600;
year
- local year;
month
- local month (0 to 11);
day
- local day in the month;
hours
- local hour;
mins
- local minute;
secs
- local second;
ms
- local millisecond.
So here: countdown.UTCDate(10, 2022, 11, 22)
Find the Load Scripts section at the end of <body> and make sure that all the necessary js files are added in the following order:
<!-- Load Scripts Start-->
<script src="js/libs.min.js"></script>
...
<script src="js/custom.js"></script>
...
<!-- Load Scripts End-->
Setting your own date for countdown script can be done in custom.js file in js folder:
$('#countdown').countdown({until: $.countdown.UTCDate(+10, 2023, 8, 25), format: 'D'});
Visit KBW Countdown site for more details and settings - keith-wood.name/countdown.html
Finley uses jQuery CSS Skills Bar Plugin to show he skill set.

You can change percent parameter in the HTML file:
<!-- Skillbar single item -->
<div class="show-skillbar">
<div class="skillbar light" data-percent="96">
<span class="skillbar-title text-light">Design</span>
<p class="skillbar-bar light"></p>
<span class="skill-bar-percent text-light"></span>
</div>
</div>All other parameters you can change in custom.js file:
$('.skillbar').skillBars({
from: 0,
speed: 4000,
interval: 100,
decimals: 0
});See jQuery CSS Skills Bar Plugin page for more settings.
Finley uses Magnific Popup for video showreel in About Us section of the template.

You can change a link to the video in your *.html file:
<!-- video trigger -->
<a data-text="Play" href="https://vimeo.com/65036292" id="inner-video-trigger" class="inner-video-trigger link-xl">Play</a>All popup parameters you can change in custom.js file:
$('#inner-video-trigger').magnificPopup({
type: 'iframe',
mainClass: 'mfp-fade',
removalDelay: 160,
preloader: false,
fixedContentPos: false,
callbacks: {
beforeOpen: function() { $('body').addClass('overflow-hidden'); },
close: function() { $('body').removeClass('overflow-hidden'); }
}
});See dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup page for more settings.
Portfolio gallery is made using PhotoSwipe JavaScript Gallery.

This is an example for one portfolio item, just duplicate it to add new pictures or fill it with your content:
<!-- gallery single item -->
<figure class="col-12 col-md-6 col-xl-4 my-gallery__item link-xl" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject">
<a href="img/works/YOUR_IMAGE_NAME.jpg" data-image="img/works/YOUR_IMAGE_NAME.jpg" class="works-link" itemprop="contentUrl" data-size="1200x1200">
<img src="img/works/YOUR_IMAGE_NAME.jpg" class="works-image" itemprop="thumbnail" alt="Image description" />
</a>
<figcaption class="my-gallery__descr" itemprop="caption description">
<h3>
Cosmetics presentation
<small>Art / Photography</small>
</h3>
<p class="light">Have i gone mad? Im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.</p>
</figcaption>
</figure>
JavaScript files that have to be included:
<!-- Load Scripts Start-->
<script src="js/libs.min.js"></script>
...
<script src="js/gallery-init.js"></script>
...
<!-- Load Scripts End-->More information about PhotoSwipe Gallery you can find in PhotoSwipe Documentation.
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All backgrounds CSS styles are compiled in plugins.css file so you don't need to add any CSS files.
To provide this effect we use Vegas jQuery Plugin . Make sure you have <div id="bgndKenburns"> in the *.html file:
<!-- Background Effects Start -->
<div id="bgndKenburns"></div>
<!-- Background Effects End -->Find the Load Scripts section at the end of <body> and make sure that all the necessary js files are added in the following order:
<!-- Load Scripts Start-->
<script src="js/libs.min.js"></script>
...
<script src="js/custom.js"></script>
<!-- Load Scripts End-->To replace or add images to the slideshow, find the custom.js file in js folder and make the necessary changes to the slides array:
$('#bgndKenburns').vegas({
...
slides: [
{ src: '../img/example-slide-1.jpg' },
{ src: '../img/example-slide-2.jpg' },
{ src: '../img/example-slide-3.jpg' }
],
...
});More information about Vegas settings you can find in the official documentation - vegas.jaysalvat.com/documentation
To provide self-hosted (local) video background feature we use HTML5 <video> tag. Aso we used <source> property with 3 video formats to maximize browser support:
<!-- Background Effect Start -->
<!-- local video background -->
<div class="video-background">
<video id="main-video" preload="auto" autoplay="autoplay" loop="loop" muted="muted" poster="https://dummyimage.com/1920x1280/383838/8d8d8d">
<source type="video/mp4" src="video/video.mp4">
<source type="video/webm" src="video/video.webm">
<source type="video/ogv" src="video/video.ogv">
</video>
</div>
<!-- Background Effect End -->You can use online service to convert your video: Online Uniconverter or any other similar applicaton.
Please note, if you'll not use muted property of the <video> tag, your video will not start automatically in some browsers.
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Finley template is provided with 2 form types:
This active subscribe form will save emails to MailChimp list.

<!-- Notify Contact Form Start-->
<form class="form notify-form form-light">
<input class="margin-s" type="email" placeholder="Your Email" required>
<span class="inputs-description">*Required fields</span>
<button class="btn btn-solid btn-solid-light link-l" type="submit"><span>Submit</span></button>
</form>
<!-- Notify Contact Form End-->JavaScript files that have to be included:
<!-- Load Scripts Start-->
<script src="js/libs.min.js"></script>
...
<script src="js/custom.js"></script>
<!-- Load Scripts End-->Follow these steps to get Mailchimp list URL:
Audience section.




https:// if it is not included with MailChimp list URL.Open custom.js file from js folder. Just replace our Mailchimp form action URL with your Mailchimp list URL:
$('.notify-form').ajaxChimp({
callback: mailchimpCallback,
// Replace this Mailchimp form action URL with your Mailchimp list URL
url: 'https://besaba.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=e8d650c0df90e716c22ae4778&id=54a7906900'
});Done! Now you can save emails to your MailChimp Audience List!
Finley template has integrated ajax contact form.

It's very easy to set up this forms to receive feedback on your e-mail:
mail.php file is added to the root directory of your project.<form> tag with id="contact-form" in the *.html file. <!-- Contact Form Start -->
<form class="form contact-form" id="contact-form">
<!-- Hidden Required Fields -->
<input type="hidden" name="project_name" value="Finley Coming Soon Template">
<input type="hidden" name="admin_email" value="support@mixdesign.club">
<input type="hidden" name="form_subject" value="Contact Form Message">
<!-- END Hidden Required Fields-->
...
</form>
<!-- Contact Form End -->JavaScript files that have to be included:
<!-- Load Scripts Start-->
<script src="js/libs.min.js"></script>
...
<script src="js/custom.js"></script>
<!-- Load Scripts End-->Done! Now you can receive messages on your e-mail.
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If you want to totally customize Finley, you can use our all-inclusive FinleyGULP template. FinleyGULP includes Bootstrap 5 Grid, Gulp, Sass, Bourbon, Autoprefixer, Browsersync, Clean-CSS, CSS Beautify, Uglify, and other packages for efficient and comfortable work.
FinleyGULP requires node, npm and git.
Install Node Modules: npm i
Run FinleyGULP: gulp
app directory;sass directory;dist folder is a production folder. It contains ready project with optimized HTML, CSS, JS and images.gulp: run default gulp task for web development;
build: build project to dist folder;
clearcache: clear all gulp cache.
If you have any questions about FinleyGULP, you can email us on support@mixdesign.club.
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