Hey, guys, it's Ginny Silver.
And today I'm gonna talk to those of you who need to know
how to build your own website.
For those of you that do not have a website, or for those
of you that have an outdated subpar website, I'm gonna walk
you through exactly how you can build a beautiful website
using Wix.
Now today's video is sponsored by Wix.
Wix helps you to create a high quality, beautiful website.
Wix offers a vast array of beautiful templates to choose
from and customize a variety of high quality features to
embed. And it comes equipped with a user friendly editor
that allows you to create a site that is high in quality,
beautiful to look at and fun to create.
Now, having a website is something that I feel that everyone
should have, whether you are new to selfemployment or you
are just looking at it, starting a brand new business, or
if you have been in business and self employed for years
previously, and maybe your website just needs a re exam.
It's extremely important to be able to have an online presence
which represents your brand well, speaks to your target clients
and will allow you to be found online.
I'm going to walk you through a tutorial on how to set up
a website using Wix to create your own website.
Click the link in the video description down below.
Now, many of you may already know that I'm a wedding photographer,
and one branch of my photography business sells editing presets
to other photographers.
They utilize these presets on their computers in order to
process those photos faster.
Well, it's extremely important that that branch of my business
has a professional website as well.
So today I'm going to walk you through step by step everything
I do in order to create a new website using Wix.
First, you're going to be asked what kind of website you
will be creating, type it in and click Next.
After that, you will then be given two different options
to either let Wix Adi create a website for you or to create
your own website using the editor.
Today, I'm going to show you how to create your own website
using Wix editor.
Select edit a template to start with a template and turn
it completely customized to suit your own specific needs.
Wix has a variety of different, beautiful templates to choose
from. Once you find a template that you like, click View
and you'll be able to view the specific details of that site,
click Edit down in the bottom right hand corner.
And then Wix will apply that template to your website.
Now that we have applied the template to our website, we
are ready to start customizing.
I'm going to start over here on the left with the name of
the page that is displayed here.
I'm going to enter in the text so that matches my website
name. Next, I'm going to change the image that displays at
the top header of the page.
After clicking on Change Strip background, I am then going
to click on Image.
This will then take me to an area where I can select to upload
my own specific files.
Once I have uploaded my files, I am then going to select
the photo that I'd like to display in the header.
Next, I'm going to need to crop it so that it appears exactly
how I want it to look.
If I click again on Image over to the right, it's going to
take me back into my immediate Gallery.
If I select on the photo that I would like to crop, then
I will be able to find the crop icon and I can then go in
and specifically change the photo to look how I would like
it to appear on the page.
Once I have completed the crap, I'm going to click Save and
then I am going to click Change Background and it will input
the finalized cropped photo back into the header.
Next, I'm going to click the Add button over here to add
an element to my site.
I'm going to be adding a rectangular background as well as
some text to add a heading at the top of my page.
It's easy to drag and drop everything to expand it, make
it larger or smaller.
I'm going to change the color of this rectangle and I'm also
going to make it transparent so that you can still see the
fold to add in my text.
I'm next going to click the Add button again and then I'm
going to select the text option and select the size of text
that I would like to input.
Once this is input into my page, I will be able to customize
the text.
I'll be able to drag it, drop it, edit the text in terms
of color, size and font.
Now I want to show you one of my favorite features here,
which actually seems like something small, but it makes a
huge difference.
It's a huge time saver.
If you click here on the Fill color of this IConor of anything
that changes colors on this site and you click over onto
the color icon right here where you select the color you
will see theme colors pop up.
These are completely customizable and once you can do here
is you can select the colors that you would like to have
applied across the board for your brand on your website.
Time that you are creating something that has color in it
and you need to change the color.
Your branded colors will automatically populate for you and
it saves a lot of time to add a new block of content to your
website. You are going to click the Add and over on the left
hand side.
You are going to click on Strip.
From there you can select what type of strip you would like
to add.
The strip acts as a content block, and you can then input
other types of content within the strip.
Within my strip, I am going to be adding in an image Gallery,
so I am going to first click the Add button over on the left
hand side.
Then I will be able to Select Gallery and I'll be able to
see all the different choices that Wix has for types of galleries
that I can input into the strip.
Once I have selected one, I will go ahead and click on it
and it will then populate into next click on Change images.
And here I'll be able to delete, add, and organize the images
that are going into my Gallery.
I'm going to be using thumbnails that link to other pages
and resources, so I am going to organize them how I'd like
and then over in the settings area for these images.
I can also put links which will take the viewer to the appropriate
pages. Once this is done, then I will be able to drag it,
drop it, Resize it, and make it look exactly how I would
like it to appear on the page.
I'm going to adjust the strip boundary to make sure that
it is exactly the end of the block.
Next, I'm going to add in another new strip just like before,
and this time I'm going to add in an image.
Now I'm going to customize this block of the image stretches
a little bit larger, and then I'm going to make sure that
it's centered.
Next, I am going to create some sort of an icon in the middle
of this photo to act kind of as a title for my work that
I'm showing here.
So I'm going to click the rectangle once again and I'm going
to create it into a background for the logo that's going
to go in the middle of the flock.
Now if you're not able to locate the feature that you want
to find, use the search bar on the right.
I was looking for a frequently asked questions for him, so
I Typed in FAQ.
I was able to then locate the right application that I want
to input, and I can now input it into the site by clicking
Add to.
Next I will be able to edit the questions and answers text
by clicking the Manage Questions button up above, clicking
the Edit pencil and changing the text.
Next I'm going to add a new strip, and then I am going to
be embedding a video player within that strip.
Once I have added and stretched my strip large enough, I
am going to Select Video and then single video player.
In my next trip, I'm going to embed a contact form, just
like with everything else, the text can be customized, the
colors changed, and you can change it to appear exactly on
the page where you would like.
Now.
Next I'm going to add in a new strip, but I'm going to instead
select the services tab from the strip area.
I am then going to select what I would like to input and
it will automatically populate for me.
Next, I'm going to customize this to be on brand and have
my own unique information in it.
Using the text settings on the right hand side, I'm able
to Select Select the type of theme I would like for my text,
the font, the size, and the color.
To change the background image, I'm going to click on the
image itself and click on Change strip background.
Next, I'll click on the image and I will select the image
that I like appearance background.
Next, I'm going to customize these background colors on each
column, so I'm going to click on the column background and
then I'm going to select the color from my preloaded theme
colors here so that it matches up with my brand.
Now I went ahead and I added in some additional image files,
some additional galleries, etc using these steps that I have
already shown.
Next, I want to see exactly how my site looks from a pullback
version so that I can see if I want to reorganize or delete
any blocks up in the top area.
Here.
I am going to go ahead and click on this Zoom icon and it
will show me a zoomed out version where I can reorder or
delete different content blocks.
If I'd like to reorder a content block, I simply click on
the block and click the arrow going up or down based on where
I would like the block to move to.
Is there any blocks or spaces that need to be deleted?
I simply can click on that area and then over to the right
hand side.
I will be able to click to delete this.
Next I'm going to be able to preview what the desktop version
of the website looks like as well as viewing what the mobile
version of the site looks like.
Now you may want to open up the mobile version and ensure
that everything looks okay because because sometimes certain
elements don't translate very well on a mobile device.
So here we'll be able to see if anything needs to be removed,
changed, or reordered to make sense when viewed on a mobile
device. Changing these items on the mobile editor does not
change them on the desktop site, so you are able to click
back over and view your full website to ensure that everything
is still in order.
Okay, guys.
So I hope that was helpful.
I hope that was interesting to see the entire process from
start to finish.
From start to finish, creating this site took me less than
2 hours.
If you'd like to create your own website using Wix, click
the link in the video description, please click Like subscribe
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