- Today, I'm gonna make myself
a link in bio page.
A page to add to my social media,
to link out to various projects
and things so that everything is all findable
from that one spot.
To make this page I'm not going to be designing
and building it from scratch.
I'm actually gonna be using a ConvertKit
landing page template for it,
but I hope this video will be useful
for you to see what decisions I make
in terms of the template that I pick,
how I apply my brand to it
to get an idea for how a designer makes those decisions.
And I don't know, maybe it's something
that you can follow along with and
make one for yourself as well.
Let's get into it.
(upbeat music)
Okay, so here we are inside ConvertKit,
just watch the landing pages section looks like
in case you didn't know.
Just FYI ConvertKit is a company that I work for,
but I do also genuinely use the software.
As you can see for my side hustle stuff.
If you wanna follow along
with what I'm doing in this video,
you can make an account for free.
It's free for up to a thousand subscribers
on your email list.
So, just just saying.
I'm gonna get started by creating a new page here.
I wanna make a landing page.
I'm gonna filter it by a link page.
You can actually add like a link block
to any of these templates.
But we do have a few that are designed
specifically to like look good with links.
Which one do I wanna choose?
I think I'm gonna go for this one here.
So let's open this up.
Okay, first thing I'm gonna do
is change all the colors to fit my brand.
So the first thing is this background color.
Let me get my background color gray here from Figma
and copy and paste that in here.
(upbeat music)
Already just by changing the colors
this is feeling like more of a me page.
Obviously there's still content to swap out.
Let's add in my own image here.
(upbeat music)
For the content of this page,
I think I'm gonna copy a bunch from my website.
(upbeat music)
Now I'm gonna have this in here,
I'm kind of wondering what it would look like
if the page was totally purple.
Kind of like this background on my website is.
So I'm just gonna change the colors
and see what we can do about that.
(upbeat music)
Okay. I like this a lot better.
This feels more, I don't know,
just more interesting to have
a fully purple background,
than having a gray background like I had before.
I also might edit the fonts
just to see if there's one that I feel like
would suit my style better.
(upbeat music)
Oh yeah, that's the one.
(upbeat music)
I'm gonna make this text a little bit smaller.
Let's make it, 18 pixels.
That's better.
Okay. I'm happy with how the design is looking now.
I could've put my logo here on this space
but I liked the idea of it showing my face.
So I'm gonna keep that
and here I'm gonna edit these links now.
(upbeat music)
I could just leave this here,
and this would be fine.
But there's some more interesting stuff that I can do.
So I'm gonna click here and add this icons section.
And I'm going to set the color to be, well.
(keyboard clicks)
Let's make the color be this dark purple.
And then this will serve as sort of like
my social links at the bottom there.
(upbeat music)
Am also gonna add a feed of my Instagram images.
I think that'd be really cool.
So, let me connect that up.
Now could sit in like this
but I can change how I want this display
and I think, I'll have like four across
and maybe just display my latest four images.
So it's just in one row, nice.
I think that works well.
I also think that it would be more enticing
for people to watch my latest video
for example, if it's not just a link like this
but if I perhaps showcase to the thumbnail of it.
So I'm actually going to add a new section.
Then in here, I'll add in the thumbnail
of my latest video,
and then I'll put a link to the video,
let me copy that link in here,
so that when you click this thumbnail,
you'll get taken to the video.
And maybe I actually wanna have
my latest two videos always here.
That could be cool.
(upbeat music)
Gonna do some real arranging here.
So that this section moves above these links.
And I'm feeling like,
maybe my purple borders
on my thumbnails aren't quite,
looking right with this background I don't know.
We'll see.
We'll see how I feel once I get everything in place.
(upbeat music)
Now to see how this page will look,
I'm gonna click preview,
so that we see it all in action.
Okay. This is looking cool.
I kind of feel like I don't
like the stacks of two here though.
So, let's do something about that.
I like how this has balance
where it goes from two here to four here.
So maybe I need three pieces of content at the top,
I don't know. Maybe,
(upbeat music)
There we go.
Maybe we just embed the video directly on the page.
And then people don't even have
to like click off to another link to watch it.
I feel like that's a good option.
Let's do that.
I'm gonna get rid of, this image gallery here.
(upbeat music)
This is feeling good to me now.
I'm really liking this.
I feel like having this here
watch my latest video right at the top,
is gonna be super impactful,
and it's essentially just
I'll swap out this link
each time I upload a new video.
These ones here will stay the same,
and if I want to promote a blog post
or something as well,
I could add a section about that.
Yeah, I think this is gonna be really good.
So now to finish it off,
I am going to name this page,
(mouse clicks)
so that I can find it again,
easily in my list of ConvertKit landing pages,
then wanna set a URL for it.
I'm gonna put it on pages.charlimarie.com/links.
(mouse clicks)
That seems like a good URL for it.
This will be what people see when they fill
out the form to opt into that.
Let's give the page a title,
(upbeat music)
and then let's save and publish.
(upbeat music)
Okay, so this is my finished page.
I think it has turned out well.
It's more interesting than just
a plain list of links.
I think that seeing the thumbnail for the video,
for example it makes it much more enticing,
to click on it and play it.
I embedded my Instagram Feed as well,
which I think just like adds
more visual interest to the page.
Instead of having like a link here,
I ought to like see my Dribble.
Follow me on Twitter or whatever.
There're more subtle in these little links,
so this one stand out more,
but all of the social links
and like places find me online,
am still easily accessible.
I mean to embed on screen right now,
what this page looks like on mobile too.
'Cause obviously that's the way most people
will be seeing it,
because it's a page to be clicked
through to from Instagram.
Yeah. Really happy with this.
Let me know what you think
about it down below in the comments.
I hope it was useful for you
to see how I applied my brand to this
and how I decided to structure the page.
Even though I wasn't something that I was designing
and building from scratch myself.
And I chose this template mostly
because I liked the bonds of it.
I liked the idea of bringing the photo
and the email sign up top.
'Cause that's really important to me.
And that's something that I really wanna encourage.
But yeah, it also allowed space
for all of these other links too, which is cool.
Maybe it inspired you to go
and make a LinkedIn bio page for yourself.
I don't know.
There'll be a link in the description
to sign up for a free ConvertKit account.
If you do wanna try and follow
along with what I did here
and yeah, like I said,
I hope it was useful for you to see.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for being here.
Have a good week
and I'll see you in my next video.
Bye.
(upbeat music)