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- [Dylan] Hi everyone. My name's Dylan. And today
I'm going to show you how to get started in
GoDaddy studio. By giving you a quick tour
of the mobile app.
Now, today I'll be using the iOS version,
but don't forget it's available on Android too,
as well as web. Now in iOS,
your home screen will be the discover feed.
This is a collection of short stories, filled with tips,
techniques, ideas, and trending content
to help you get started quickly and easily.
So you could tap on any of these stories,
read up a little bit about the ideas that we have for you.
And if any of the templates catch your eye,
you can tap on them. They'll open up in the design editor
and you can start right away using one of those.
Similarly, if there are suggested graphics
in any of the stories, you can simply tap on that,
open up the full collection of graphics,
and you can just as easily use one of those as the starting
point on your new design.
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Alright, now to see
the full collection of templates that we have
available in GoDaddy studio.
Let's uh, navigate to the bottom menu, tap on templates,
and that will call up the full feed.
Now templates are added to GoDaddy studio every single day.
There are thousands and thousands and thousands,
and they're arranged in chronological order.
The newest ones are at the top.
And if you've got a few hours spare,
you're welcome to try and scroll all the way to the bottom.
But um, most of us don't have that kind of time.
So let's use the quick start buttons, right at the top.
These are really useful. If you know, the type of design,
the type you are trying to create.
So let's say you're hoping to create a Pinterest post.
Then the Pinterest Quickstart would be a
logical place to start. And similarly,
if you are wanting to create a banner or an ad,
this will help narrow down the template feed.
Two designs created with that particular format in mind,
just above these main Quickstart buttons.
There's a smaller row of QuickStarts too.
And these are useful for finding content around upcoming
days like Halloween, which is just a few weeks away,
and this will give you access to all of,
all of our Halloween content.
And then similarly in that row,
if there's a specific category you're looking for.
So let's say you are in the beauty business and tapping on
that will give you access to all the designs that have been
created with the beauty industry in mind.
Similarly, if you are, let's say in real estate,
then that obviously invokes a very different aesthetic and
you'll need a whole different type of template sets.
So we have those for most industries too.
Now, the easiest way to find exactly
what you're looking for is to use the search bar.
So whether you are a yoga studio looking for templates
to um, promote a new workshop, that would be a good,
a good way to start or could search around a specific uh,
event or occasion. So again, Black Friday's coming up
around the, around the corner. So searching for
Black Friday will expose you to some of our
templates designed for that big sale occasion,
or perhaps you have a particular design style in mind.
So you might be elegant brand or use elegant to define your
brand style and using that as your search term will uh,
narrow down the template designs to those
that have a particularly elegant look and feel.
So there are a lot of ways to uh
find the design you're looking for,
regardless of how you get there,
simply tap the one that uh you ultimately decide on,
and it will automatically open up in the design editor.
And at this point, all the various elements of
on uh, the page are completely editable.
You can use your layers view at the top here to get a sense
of all the different elements on the canvas that you can
edit. Okay, so that is how you start from a templates.
If you want a bit more creative freedom,
or if you're feeling a bit more adventurous
in terms of design, you're welcome to
start, start uh a creation from scratch.
In which case you would navigate to this
big plus button in the bottom center.
And uh, that will call up the create tab here.
You could either start a design from an image or a video or
a blank canvas, which could be transparent, white or black.
So let's select transparent, and uh,
then you would select the particular format
that you're designing for.
Uh, We have all the major formats and
more than major platforms here catered to, of course,
if you have a specific specific dimensions and you want to
create a custom canvas,
you can do that too by simply entering those dimensions.
And then once you've selected your canvas,
it's really just the process of adding various elements to
the canvas and building up your design one step at a time.
So you could add images either from your own device or your
GoDaddy websites and marketing folder.
Don't forget, we have uh, the Unsplash library,
which has hundreds of thousands of really high quality
royalty free images.
You could of course uh, add whatever texts you would like
and express that text in more than 600 different fonts.
Um, Our graphics collection is another
huge feature of GoDaddy Studio.
We have thousands and thousands of these across
so many different styles.
Um, You can connect your own collections or uh,
explore some of the latest content that we have in the app.
Um, in this section, by the way,
you can also store your own logos,
which is really useful when you want to
add logos to your designs.
And of course you could add a shape,
something very basic like that.
Um, and video. Don't forget video.
Major part of any content strategy and um,
what our templates are equally editable with
images or videos. So that's definitely
something you'd want to explore.
All right, let's close that and uh
hit the create button again,
to take a look at loud collections.
Now layouts are of someway between a blank canvas and
a template, except they are designed as sets
in a unified look and feel
according to a whole range of different design styles.
So it's really cool if you're looking to
create a campaign or you want a very
consistent look on your uh, social media feed,
you could select any of these and
they come in a range of different formats.
So it's really great for getting your brand on different
platforms. And they're so easy to use you uh,
You simply just tap on one of them.
Um, You can very easily edit the text.
And uh, if you want to create a, um, a an image,
you simply tap the placeholders and uh, just pop an image in
there. Couldn't be simpler.
Of course, you can start to do things
like uh, change the colors, and uh, you can edit
just about anything in allowed collection. But, I think
the coolest thing about them is that they look pretty good
as they come, just fresh out the box. Ready to go.
All right. Now, regardless of whether you are
creating from a template or a
blank canvas or a loud collection,
or your projects that you work on will automatically be
saved in your projects folder.
So let's take a look at the bottom uh, right-hand side here,
I'll tap on projects and you can really see
that all these um, designs I've worked on
just in this, in the last few minutes
are right from the beginning.
Even if they were only open for a moment or two on my
canvas, as soon as they've been on my canvas,
they're automatically saved.
So you don't ever have to worry about losing anything.
Or, if you wanted to delete them,
you can, of course do that.
You have the option of deleting as many as you like.
You can batch delete, and what you can also do
is start to arrange your um, your designs into folders.
So you can uh, really organize your projects that way, too.
And uh, whether you're working on mobile or web,
your projects will always sync across all platforms.
So you can start a design on mobile,
pick it up later on web and vice versa.
They are automatically synced across all your devices.
All right, hopefully that's enough to get you started.
Try it out for yourself today and see how deep
the creative rabbit hole really goes.
You can download the free app for
iOS or Android via links in the description.
And please remember to subscribe to this channel,
to keep learning about GoDaddy Studio and
what it can do for your small business.
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