Getting Started with Zibster Mood Boards
Zibster Mood Boards make it easy to share images, ideas, and inspiration with your clients in a clean, professional format. Mood Boards are designed for collaboration and feedback, allowing clients to view images, mark favorites, and leave comments—all without ecommerce or print sales.
If you’re opening Mood Boards for the first time, this guide will help you understand the core setup options so you can start strong. You can always return later to adjust settings or update your boards as your workflow evolves.
Customize Your Branding and Design
Mood Boards automatically inherit the branding from your Zibster branding section, which means much of the work is already done for you.
Your logo and busines information are pulled from your global design settings. As long as your site branding is set up, your Mood Boards will match automatically.
Inside the Mood Boards DESIGN tab, you should review the following:
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Logo – Your logo is the most prominent branding element. You can upload or update it in the LOGO section of the DESIGN tab.
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Layout – Choose how images are displayed. Available options include square, rectangle, and pinboard layouts.
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Theme – Select an icon style and adjust colors if needed to better match your brand.
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Upload Images to a Mood Board
Once your branding is in place, you can start creating Mood Boards and adding images.
Mood Boards are ideal for:
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Inspiration boards
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Proofing and image selection
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Design concepts
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Collaboration with clients or teams
You can upload images directly to each Mood Board and organize them visually for easy browsing. Clients can favorite images and leave comments, helping you gather feedback in one central place.
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Share Your Mood Boards with Clients
When your Mood Board is ready, you can share it in several ways depending on how you prefer to communicate with clients.
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Send an email invitation directly from Zibster
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Copy a shareable link to send manually
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Post the Mood Board link on your website or blog
Clients can access the Mood Board from any device and interact with images without needing to log in.
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Organize and Manage Mood Boards
If you create multiple Mood Boards, you can keep things organized by using clear naming conventions or grouping boards by project type.
Each Mood Board can be managed individually, allowing you to:
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Update images at any time
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Review client activity and engagement
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Respond to comments and feedback
This flexibility makes Mood Boards useful throughout different stages of your workflow, from early inspiration to final selections.
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In addition to adding your logo and customizing the design, there are a few other settings you may need to tweak before you're ready to start sharing images with your customers. Follow the links below for more information about the SETTINGS section of the Mood Board control panel:
Change how your company name is displayed
4. ADD PROJECTS
Now it's the moment you've been waiting for– it's time to set up your mood board projects. To get started, go to the projects tab in your Mood Boards and click on NEW PROJECT. If you have different categories of projects, you can set up these categories first to help you stay organized.
For step by step instructions on setting up projects, click here.
5. SHARE AND LINK TO YOUR WEBSITE
After your project(s) are uploaded, it's time to share them with your clients! You also may want to add a link on your main website to your mood boards page so it's easy for clients to access their images if they happen to lose a link you send them.
Click here to learn how to share your projects.
Click here to learn how to link mood board to your main site.
