Hello friends its Allison I hope you're having a super happy days apart in
today's video we're gonna do a little personal branding one-on-one and I'm
going to take you through the process of creating your very own website so I know
creating a website can be super intimidating especially if you haven't
done anything like that before but today I'm just going to walk you through all
the steps and show you how you can do it in a super super simple way I'm really
excited to be partnering with Wix or this video if you're not familiar
already they are an incredible resource and platform to create your own website
and they offer tons of free templates and just so many opportunities to
customize which I definitely appreciate because I love my website to show my
personality show my Flair so today we'll be walking through all the steps and I
will be updating my own personal website because I used to have one but I
recently got married if you didn't know so I wanted to update it with my new
last name and I've had a little bit of career changes as well so I need a
website that reflects that before we dive in and start painting our website I
really think it's important to create your purpose so what is your objective
when you create this website is it to land your dream job is it to gain more
customers to your small shop whatever it may be
write down that purpose and keep that in mind cause you're creating this website
and think of it in the point of view or the employers point of
view and what you would want to see if you were in their shoes next step is to
gather all of your inspiration my favorite way to do this is on Pinterest
I create so many different boards where I just pull lots of different inspo
images and design and typography I really enjoy and once I have a good
collection of this I'm able to kind of refine and see what colors I'm drawn to
and type I'm drawn to and this will help us in the design process
so we're able to really reflect our aesthetic and what we want to put out in
the world because as you use these templates you're able to really
customize the colors and the type so I really encourage you to make it your own
okay welcome to the back end of my laptop so first things first we're gonna
open up wix.com and this is what you will see when you pull it up if you
don't have an account yet and you can explore it for a little bit just to see
what they offer but we're just gonna dive right in so I'm gonna sign in and
then I'm going to take you to my sites so I want to walk you through exactly my
process and how I chose the template that I wanted to use so I really wanted
this site to just be a personal website because I truly feel like that is so
important because whether you're applying for jobs or just trying to
create an online presence for yourself you want appropriate information to show
up when people google you and look you up so the more content you put out there
that looks professional the better but as you can see there are so many
different templates depending on what kind of website you want to build so if
you want to start a business they have that for you or if you want to start an
online store or you know I I know so many photographers who are always
looking for great websites and which is such a good option and the templates
that they provide truly are beautiful the image quality is stunning I just
take some time scrolling through to see what catches my eye
and as you can see they're just pages upon pages oh this one looks cute vlog
caught my eye okay let's take a look at this one okay this one looks very
promising for what I'm looking for it has a place to put my YouTube content my
Instagram content a contact for him so it's really checking all my boxes you
can use whatever template your heart desires and then you just customize it
but if you're trying to have a quick turnaround and you want to get your
website completed as quickly as possible you're going to want to just pick a
template that closely aligns with what you're trying to create okay
I I really like this one I'm feeling really good about this ashle one so
let's start customizing I really want to focus on making it simple yet impactful
I don't want to clutter my website or anything like that I just want to make
it clean crisp definitely my aesthetic and you know using all the info and
color palette that we established at the beginning and really give it my own
Flair even though I am using a template as I go through you'll be able to see
how customizable Wix actually is first things first let's change the name
because obviously my name is not Ashley it's Allison not totally far but I
definitely want to change that and I do love this text actually so I'm gonna
keep that font but I want to make it a little smaller because clearly it's not
fitting correctly there we go and then I want to change the color to white I
believe and then of course we gotta get this photo of Ashley out of here and
switch it in with some Allison so I just uploaded a few different image options
and then I'm going to click the change background so we can pop in a photo of
myself wow I am blown away at the quality of this
image I think this one's cute but I do want to try a couple different options
to see which one I like the very most okay we're gonna go with this one for
now this is one of my favourite photos because I am wearing flowers on my shirt
and my shorts and I'm holding flowers and I just feel like it really reflects
me and my brand so it's a perfect fit and now I need to change this tagline if
you don't have a tagline yet or anything that you want to include in this little
section of course you can just delete it so simply I think it's always nice to
have like a little tagline and my favorite that I use for a lot of my
branding is magic dwells here and I want to make that a little bigger and I think
I want to change the font as well but we'll play around and see what fits this
one looks fun we like that that's a cute one
this one looks simple ooh I really like that actually if I make it bigger and
then they have these little leading lines on wix to help you make sure that
everything is centered so that's super duper helpful okay I really like that
but it is getting lost in the flowers a little bit so I'm just going to adjust
everything so that it's more legible perfect and maybe I need to make this
magic twelve here a little bolder Haley what does that mean
oh you can make it oh that's cute hmm maybe I could do die and then make it a
little more opaque it's nice because you can create your own color codes as well
you don't you're not confined to just the colors that they have okay I like
that because it's a light pink beautiful I am into that very very into that okay
let's change the button up here to my name very important we don't want to
leave anything that says Ashley and we're actually going to change the
design of this as well because I'm not super crazy about that font so I'm going
to switch out the button to be look at all of these choices guys I truly am
blown away of course I'm drawn to the pink option
okay we can just change our font cute I think I kind of want to keep this same
fonts though so that we are staying on brand beautiful and then let's see if we
can read it if it's this color yes we can let's keep it like that perfect okay
now I want to adjust this menu as well because I don't love how it's purple
when you highlight it oh also that was a good reminder from waiks to save as you
continue editing because you know if you lost connection or your computer died
you just want to make sure that it's saving your progress as you go on
so let's customize and be this navigation they have lots of different
options if I kind of like that look where it's highlighted and I have used
other website creating sites in the past but Wix definitely by far has the most
options which I very much appreciate okay let's take change the text to this
dark pink and then the fine I wanted to our lotto light which we were using
earlier hover I want to definitely change this purple I am just not a fan
of purple which is so funny because I absolutely love pink you would think
it's close enough but I am NOT a fan okay amazing I love that so much more
pink just makes everything better now we're going to go down to the vlog
section which is perfect because obviously I'm a youtuber and I want a
place to showcase my videos so we already have this beautiful Wix video
plug-in and now we just have to change it so that it's my channel and not
Ashley's so Wix makes it super easy to upload your videos you can upload a
video file or you can embed it from YouTube Vimeo or Facebook and that is
what I'm going to do and I'll just add a few more to have a little variety of
different videos to showcase okay amazing it's coming together but I
really want to customize this because we have this purple color again which I am
not feeling I am just not feeling it at all so we want to change this icon links
color too I like how it saves the colors you've been using so that it's easy to
access them and you don't have to match them every time and again I'm just going
to change my font back to our lado light perfect and now we have this beautiful
little about page which I love of course I'm going to change the image and I'll
just use one of the images I filtered in before amazing and once again let's get
rid of this verbal and then I'm going to change out the paragraph I'm also going
to make this photo a little bit smaller to kind of match the size of my little
bio because I don't have a whole lot that I wrote or I could just match
by spacing it out and making the font a little bigger perfect and now let's go
to Instagram they have so many different ways you can embed your Instagram feed
which I love so I like the little collage they have now of course I just
need to get Ashley out of here and connect my Instagram magic look at that
all my pink feed is in the building and we are not actually on insta we are
Allison on insta okay we have Leto light which I lulo clean amazing okay
guys we're almost wrapping up of course when you're making your website just
take your time and have fun with it I also love how they offer the opportunity
to connect all of your social accounts and you can even have a little contact
form which is super convenient especially if you want future employers
or brands to contact you with opportunities so let's zoom out and see
how it's looking I'm very happy with that but before we wrap up I really want
to remind you that when you're creating your website you also want to switch to
the mobile version and Wix has a beautiful little icon up here where you
can just click it and see what it'll look like on a cell phone which is very
very helpful because sometimes it gets a little wonky because it's just formatted
so differently but they have the opportunity for you to customize it here
as well so that it looks optimized for mobile which is so important because so
many people use their mobile devices over their computers these days okay so
I see that the Allison isn't showing up all in one line so we want to make the
font a little bit smaller so let's bring that down
so that I listen there we go is all in one line okay I like the about section I
think that looks good I don't really love how big these instead images are on
the mobile device I don't like how it's one column so we're gonna switch it to
three columns so that more is just shown at once so people aren't scrolling
through like it's actually Instagram because I want it to be a little
different and you can also change how many rows you want to show of your
images and the spacing as well amazing now we are all good to go with mobile so
again you can build your website for free but I do recommend checking out
their premium options and with my code Allisyn 15 you'll be able to get a
discount on the premium plan if you are using your personal website for a
professional setting I really think it just looks so much cleaner if you're
able to customize your domain and it'll also eliminate the Wix ads that will
appear on the bottom of your web page but I understand not everyone will have
the opportunity to do that so I'm so thankful that Wix offers the free option
as well and that's it it's as simple as that I truly hope you found this video
to be helpful make sure you check out my final product Allison burgers calm and
let me know if you end up making your own personal website or business website
or whatever it may be with Wix leave it down in the comments send me a DM on
Instagram I will love to see it and love to encourage and
support you as you pursue your dreams and I truly feel like creating a website
is a part of making those dreams come true especially in this digital age that
we live in thank you guys for watching please be sure to subscribe and like
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