hello hello it's alice first of all thank you very much to wix for sponsoring this video
we are going to work together to create a website with wix so i can show you
how effortless it really is if you also want to create your own website with wix you can follow
the link on screen and in the description and i guess we'll just get straight into it and you can
see for yourself how great it is so heading over to my screen you can see i'm on the wix website
and i am being asked what kind of website i want to create so i'm thinking something like a graphic
design portfolio style website they also have the options for online stores and more like business
things maybe a restaurant and you need a website that hosts your menu and stuff so they have a lot
of options but obviously for me i'm going to click on the designer one and in here i get the option
on how to create your website so i can either let wix adi create it for me or i can create my
website with the editor now today i want to show you how the editor works and how effortless it
really is no coding required it's just top tier especially for me because when i tried to learn
coding at uni it just wasn't the one my brain does not work like that so they have a whole
bunch of different templates that you can choose from depending on your area of expertise if you
go up to the top you can see the different options obviously i selected design so it's gone straight
into the creative section for design but i mean you can see there's music photography portfolio
there's a lot which is great i actually have had a sneaky look at these already and i found this one
which i really like the look of it's the designer pop-up store template so if you want to use that
one too that's what it's called and i'm gonna go straight in and edit it so when you have your
website being built you need copy which is text any blocks of information that you want writing on
it you need images and then obviously the website itself so for this demonstration i'm not actually
going to show you me writing the copy and i'm not necessarily going to use the exact images
that i would use so this is the editor you can see on the screen the website itself the left is the
logo we've got a little navigation menu and then you can scroll down and see the different options
now i love about this is it's all divided into sections so you can see this is a strip
which is a section of its own highlighted in the blue and then underneath there's an about us and
so on so it's all sort of built up like building blocks on the left you have different options so
what i want to do first is i want to change this logo to my own so i'm going to get rid of this so
if i click it and just go over here to the delete button i can get rid of this and what i want to
do is obviously insert my own logo so i'm going to go to add here on the left menu and i'm going
to go to image and obviously you can either use images that are available on wix they have stock
images but obviously in this case we want to use a logo and in here i'm going to upload my own media
so obviously i'm going to grab my logo so we've uploaded my logo i've uploaded it as a png which
means it's got a clear background and you can crop edit cut out the background etc there are a lot of
extra things within each element that allows you to tweak it which i'm not going to go into it all
because you could spend hours and hours doing it but in terms of setting up the basic layout it's
so efficient so i've inserted the logo i want to make it smaller see what i mean about no
coding required they'll be doing coding and complicated things in the background but
we're not all about that life we're just dragging and dropping which is great what i love to see
so my logo is in the corner perfect then i i want to change the photo so i'm going to
change the image and find an image of me to put in there so i'm importing an image so we have
my image and we can choose that image and it'll insert it in place of the one that's already there
so there we have the image and you can see that it has sort of like a bounding box which i can move
and relocate and it's sort of cropping it without making it too permanent and then you can click
apply you can change the shape you can change the angles zoom in zoom it out etc so we have
the image so it already looks more personalized to me then on this side they've put pop i'm going
to change that and just write in design and we're going to just nudge that over
and it's just warned me look you've dragged an element outside the grid line some of your
visitors won't see it which is great obviously so i want to adjust that a little bit so it is
actually visible you can also change that so it's a link so if i want that to be clickable people to
go on it you can change it and then i'm also going to change this text here so this currently says
pop-up because it was a pop-up store template but i'm going to just write design and then
chop the letters down each time i write it like that so it's sort of the same vibe and as you can
see as i've typed i've just double clicked on it to get the editor up and then as i type as you can
see i've just clicked on it typed into it like you would with any word processor you can go in
here you can either choose a theme heading you can change the fonts the size the color the background
color highlights you can add an effect so it sort of fades in or fades out as you can see there are
a lot of options so definitely explore those you can also duplicate them so whilst it's selected
i'm going to go up here and click this button which duplicates it because i know that down here
there's another one i'm going to get rid of that one and i'm going to put this down here and then
i think for this i'm going to just write my name now obviously depending on which template you pick
depends on how it's going to look also depending on what service you do depends on how you want
to change things so this is an events box here it says designer sale on the 15th of october we don't
need that i'm using this as a graphic design portfolio so i'm going to get rid of that but
i could add something else in there so i could add maybe my adobe illustrator course i could add like
a little pop-up box in there that's like hey i have an illustrator course sign up here and to do
that you would go over to the left hand side and you can go down here and if i just scroll through
them you'll see the different options we've got buttons galleries decorative elements interactive
boxes contacts and forms which is going to be really important i'll need that in a second i mean
there's a lot you can see everything that there is so moving down we've got an about us section which
i think is really valuable for a portfolio so i'm just going to put about alice and then obviously
in there you'd edit the text and write whatever for the purpose of this tutorial will not do that
but like i said it's easy as clicking it and then you can drag and delete whatever change the text
change the alignment etc but we'll just undo that for now and then obviously the button underneath
you can change where that's linked to you can change the color you can change where
it is and so on then underneath we've got feature designers so i'm thinking for this part we can do
featured projects and again you can change the font etcetera i'm gonna add in here images
of my own work so in this case i'm gonna add some images from my shop soul and fire and to do that
this is literally just a gallery option so to add this in if it wasn't already there you go to add
you go to gallery and then you'd find one that you like the look of see there's sliders there's
grid galleries etc i quite like the layout as it is so i'm not gonna play around with it too
much i don't need to make it any more complicated than it needs to be so i'm gonna find four images
and here we have the images so i've uploaded the images i'm gonna get rid of these from the
gallery because we don't want them anymore and then you can see here that they're ordered so
you can drag to arrange them again you can crop them you can edit them you can replace the image
and so on and then if we click off of them you can see straight away that everything has been
added already so i think i actually might want to change the layout because this one and this
one look quite busy next to each other so easy enough double click manage media and i'm gonna put
this as number three is that right have i done that wrong let's see double check yeah i'm happy
with that so you can see that that change has been made instantly now this next one is actually
a google maps so it's a location thing if this was a shop or a restaurant it'd be really helpful it's
not it's a portfolio so i've got rid of that and what i'm gonna do is insert testimonials so again
in the ad section i can go down to strip and then in here this also has other options so we've got
testimonials and you can see some pre-made testimonial templates so what i'm going to do
is just click that and then we have the template ready and instantly there if i want to create a
bit of space between the two elements i can drag it down with this little slider and then like with
everything else in the site if you want to change anything you just click it some options pop up you
can change the image you can change the font you can get text ideas which is quite cool and really
make it your own scrolling down we have this information so we've got a bit of contact info
social media icons and then there's a subscribers form which is really handy so if you want to start
sending out newsletters you can use this you can go to the settings you can change where
it's submitted any conditions obviously you can change how it looks so you can change the design
which is the fun bit and i mean the possibilities are endless this also has a background color so
i can go into design customize that design and i can change the background so i can either have no
background at all which is what i want to do or i can make it stand out and pop with a different one
i mean you can literally see how painless this all is it's just clicking it's very intuitive
and you can very much figure it out by doing it doesn't take too much brain power we want to
save your brain power for your actual industry we want to save the brain power for designing things
if you're designing a portfolio like i am so that is the basics you can obviously go into
more options so if you wanted to change this obviously up here i don't have featured designers
anymore i changed that to featured projects so i can rename that and press done and you'll see
that it's changed up here in the menu bar already and same with everything else if you want to add a
new page you can click down here add a new page name it so let's go with i'll just put youtube
so this could have demonstrations of my youtube channels i can drag it and then from there i
can go into the page itself head into the add button and maybe add some things so i could add
videos straight from youtube drag that in put it wherever you like maybe go in again add some text
we want a bit of paragraph text drag that in bit of a description you know you can literally see
it coming together so that is the basic way of doing this so once you're ready and you've got
a website that you're happy with you can go to publish it'll then allow you to connect your
domain name if you already have one or you can publish it as a wix website or you can buy a
domain name and what's great with wix is that they offer you a free year worth of a domain name so
no brainer once again and look what's just popped up check your site on mobile so you can also edit
the mobile site so this is a little demo of how the site would look on mobile which is super super
important so i mean straight up you can see that this needs changing and what's really fun about it
is that i can make changes on the mobile site and it won't affect the website which is great because
a lot of platforms don't allow that so you can sort of see how it's all been adapted to fit in a
small like vertical screen so let's go to publish like i said you can pair the domain name you can
buy a domain name you can use an existing one and i've actually already done this for a previous one
so i'm going to show you the finished result so if we click through onto this site that i made
earlier i feel very professional we're going to preview it and i'm going to just show you
how it can turn out so this is how it turned out like i said you can spend time perfecting things
and changing things you can change the behind the scenes so it works more efficiently for you
and your business and truly having a website is a game changer everyone needs a website no
matter what industry you're in it's a great place to direct your audience your customer base to
so they have a basically one-stop shop to see everything that you offer so down the left we
have this menu bar which i really liked you can contact me straight away find out more about me
and we scrolled down used a different image as you can see and you can see how it went so i changed
the colors of some of the elements and added some different projects in i also added this
part which shows you what i do as a business so if someone was going to hire me as a graphic designer
they want to know what kind of things i designed so i've got branding storytelling design consulting
and for each one there's a click on element you click on it and then there'd be a page all
of its own explaining it further i also added in some social media icons because obviously that's
a very important part of my job super simple to add those again that same process in the ad menu
on the left click down and find your perfect elements and then there's the subscribe option
yeah i'm really happy with how this turned out i think it's very in keeping with my style because
there are loads of templates there are going to be different color combinations and different ways of
laying things out that suit you and your business so like i said at the beginning of the video if
you follow this link on screen i've also put that link in the description you can also build
your website with wix once again thank you to wix for working with me i'm so happy i got to try this
out and really rave about how cool it is because i mean you can see it for yourself come on but yeah
that's it for today's video i hope you enjoyed it and i'll see you next time for another one bye