Do you even need a website in 2020? And are they still relevant for smaller businesses that we ensure absolutely? Yes, whether you're a ...
Do you even need a website in 2020? And are they still relevant for smaller businesses that we ensure absolutely? Yes, whether you're a restaurant or a yoga studio, or even a social media marketing agency? A website is a great way fo regardsr you to show your potential clients what services you offer, how to contact you and even sell products directly online. But it's gonna be something which is very daunting to New Start business owners who don't have any web experience. They're not tacky, and you don't even know where to begin on. Creating a website can be really daunting task. And that's why in this Blog, I'm going to show you in less than 15 minutes everything you need to know, step by step to create your first website today.
But regardless of what business industry you are in, you can literally follow these steps to create a website for yourself today. It's not detrimental to your agency if you don't create a website right away. In fact, it was months after I launch my agency, they actually launched my website. But that being said, it is an exceptional way for you to get your clients to contact you inbound and also show them what services you have to offer. So without further Ado, what we're going to do is going to flip around onto them, Mac. But you want to go and click the link in the description. Go over to wixcom if you want to follow this tutorial today. And you can start creating your website right now. But let's get started. Cool. So we are on wixcom right now. And what we want to do straight away is go over to the top right hand corner and hit sign in. Okay, so we want to create an account, or we can click, get started in the middle here. So get started or sign in, and we'll do the exact same thing. And we want to create our account. So I'm gonna go ahead and create a new account today. So I'm going to put email address in here, click sign up. So if you're new to the platform, you just want to follow the on-screen instructions we're going to hit. Let's do it. We want to create a website for ourselves. It should be a business site. In this instance, we're going to quit the agency website. And I have never done this before. Okay, let's presume that I'm it. Absolute beginner. Okay? We then going to get the option to use the Wicks. A high platform. Okay, so we can have articles, artificial intelligence build the basis of our website for us. But we're actually going to choose a template today. But by all means, you should play around with this feature. So we're going to hit choose a template on the right hand side, and it's going to bring us through to the template selection. So we have many options here. We on businesses and services right now. But if you are letting health and wellness it travel and tourism, landing pages, restaurants, Beauty and all these sub niches underneath. Okay, we have so many options. As I said, there's over 500 templates to choose from, but we're going to keep this nice and simple. We're going to go and business, and we're actually going to be an advertising and marketing. We can either that here, or we're going to do that over here. So advertising and marketing that see what we have got.
So this is going to bring up all the relevant templates, although of course, you can use absolutely any of the templates on Wix, and you just need to change the text and change the layout. It doesn't matter what template you start off with. You can. You can adapt it for whatever industry you're working you. So let's use this one. This looks like a looks like a nice one to use. We just want to hit edit. Okay, so when we're on the editor for the first time, we get the option to watch some training Blog, which we can go through. And we're going to skip that, because I want to show you, actually, how you can do this today. Okay. So to use this editor, you just need to understand how to use the navigation bar on the left hand side here, and the tools on the right. Many of this will be familiar if you've ever used any kind of design software in the past, or maybe even any kind of word processing tool for that matter. So if we go from the left and work our way down, we're going to go menus and Pages first. This is where we can look at all the different pages on our website. And he's obviously going to change, depending on what template we are using. But we got works branding. We've got about page, and we've even got a booking page on it, which will come on to later on this. But if you are building an agency based website and you're a new start, all we really need is a home page and about page and a contact page, or you can even have that all in one website, one page. You don't have to have a navigation bar. You could just have that. Also you could have the about, you can have your services, and then you can have contact us if you want a really simple layout, or if you've got a existing agency with the existing clients, you might want to create a testimonial page. Let's say we want to do that with an existing agency with hit add page here. And all we would do is we're talking testimonials. And to simple as that, we have a new webpage built out K. So we brought to this new page. We can now edit this page on Wix. If we go over to the left, we can change the background if we want to. So we can change the color. You can change the color of the background. We could do site colors and hit change are really like this feature. Actually, this is where we can look at the different color palettes. This is great. If you're looking for inspiration for your website, maybe you haven't even chosen your logo yet. I mean, look at this. This is really lovely color scheme. It's a great place. Just find inspiration for colors that you may have not even thought about before. We're not going to do that for now, though we're just going to get rid of lap. And we're going to add something to this page. So the plus icon here I would left, we can add anything we want onto the page, whether it's text, images, buttons, a gallery Blog and navigation bar, social icons, our contact form. I mean, the possibilities are endless. And what I would recommend you doing as many of the things I'm going to be going through in this Blog today, you can. You could spend ages looking into them and playing around with even tweaking little things and getting creative. And that's that's your job to do. After this Blog, after you followed this tutorial, I just want to give you an idea of exactly how you can do this. Okay. So how to use the functionality in the creative side of things, and actually managing everything for your website? It's your choice to play around with. And I really encourage you playing around with all the functionality of weeks after you've gone through this training. So let's say we're doing a testimonial page. Maybe we want to add a heading so we could just click heading there, or we could simply heading. So we can go add. We could drag this onto the page. We can move this anywhere we want. Okay. So no coding needed. We can drag this around. If we want to delete this, go over to tools. We click the trash icon very self-explanatory. We want to delete, duplicate it. We could duplicate it just by clicking the icon next to it. And let's get rid lat. And it's move this header as move it up here. And let's do testimonial, okay and testimonials. We can change the font. This is very similar to any other word processor. Change the font size bold old change the alignment, anything like that, and we can get rid of that. So let's just say we're doing this here. Now. I would recommend using a maximum of free fonts / website. Okay? Because you want it to be brand continuous. You wanted to look clean. And I'd also recommend you using a maximum of three colors. Okay, to keep this like clean, I like a simplistic design, and it's just an easy way view. Maybe you're not so design Savvy for you to look design. Savvy. Okay.
Free font, Max, three, colors, Max, really? Then we. So, again, if we can add here, what are we going to do for testimonial page? Maybe these are Blog testimonials so we can go over to Blog. And we could do Blog upload. We could drag this onto here. We could integrate it straight from YouTube or Vimeo. We could drag a Blog testimonial on to this page. And maybe for people who can't actually watch the Blog. We might want to add another heading. Okay, so we could have header to. And this could be like a quote like so we're going to do this for a company called Eagle marketing. But only you can marketing did such a great job of marketing. Okay, it's probably not a likely quote. We might want to make sure this looks a little bit better by maybe learning it in the center, maybe not doing it like that kind of Center like this kind of Center. So it looks a little bit cleaner there. Of course, we want to change it. So this is a really, really simple testimonial page. One thing I also really like to point out on the add here is the container section, because we can actually add entire sections onto our website. So, for example, we wanted like a get in touch on here. We could drag this on, and we could add an entire section on to our website. Okay, I don't do the title. I want to drag the whole section. I can just drag this down underneath the Blog, and I can move this all back up. Okay? And we can format this all nice and easily. So here we go. So have I get? And I'll get in touch section now. So we've got a testimonials. Then people can get in touch afterwards with whatever contact details we want to put there. But that's what I quite like about that with the it's like individual templates inside of a template, all these different ones me, or can obviously change all the designs. All of these I have a look around template contains, and I think this is a really great thing. Even got one for testimonials in to see that. So testimonials, we can drag some quotes from somebody straight onto a website. We can change the images. We want to change these images, click on the image, hit change image. It's as simple as that. Once we do that, we can have a drag the image onto here, or we can hit upload media and drag it straight from our computer close that change of the titles. If we want to get rid of this column that we've just added, we can click that and hit delete. It's going to get rid of it when we just need to move everything back up up to where it was. But you can see, even if you make a mistake, how easy it is to just correct it cool. So that's us making a testimonial page. We can also add apps if we want to on the left hand side here. You can have a pop-up, which says, how you like our Facebook page, some kind of a form or booking form, or a live chat. Have a look around with all the applications. There's loads of them on here. Lots of a taxi owners use an app called calendly for those their scheduling. If you type in calendly at the top here, you probably integrate another calendar. Here we go calendar, and you can have bookings for a strategy called directly through to your website. In fact, I actually think this template has a booking system already built into in. So we'll see if we can find that in a minute, then got media. So again, we can drag any of our media onto here. So our Blog, or images, or even stock images we've got access to on here blog. So we could add a Blog if you are marketing agency on your block, could be a really great way for you to build Authority. And then we have a booking form. Okay, the booking manager, we're actually going to go on to that think there is one built into this website already. So we'll have a look at that. Let's go back over to our homepage. Now we don't actually just have to select our pages from here. We can also select the pages from the top left here for a quick reference. So go back over to our home page. And let's say we want to actually start editing this website. So I'm going to change the logo right now. I'm going to delete this text. I'm going to let that register trademark click, add, go and image upload image, and we're going to use a golden eagle marketing. This is the example were going to be using. Let's make this smaller. And let's get that straight in on the navigation bar like that.
The right size there we go. Now, we've got these green colors. It's not brand continuous with what we're trying to achieve here. So we want to make sure that we can change the colors. And so we want to change that. So we're using this template. We want to change the colors used. Here. We can click on any of these buttons, and we can hit change text. But we want to hit change design, every want to change the layout of these buttons. And we can go around this again. You want to play around with this, depending what design aesthetic you want. But we're going to click customise design, we're going to go and fill color and opacity. Opacity go on the green, and we are going to change the color. So what we're going to do is we're going to hit change. Colors hit this little button here, and we have the ability to change this. We can obviously do this from a hex code. So we want to we can change it to the exact color of the logo. But I would say something like this is pretty similar. So there we go. We hit, add done, close that, and we would do the same for every other individual element on the website. Okay, so we can change the the color of this strategy called are, for example, as well. Now this strategy cool. This is actually a built-in booking system as far as I'm aware on this template itself. So to click on this, yes, it is. So we have the option to manage different Services. Now, this booking system is not just used, obviously, for marketing agencies. This can be view a personal trainer. This could be for scheduling in a free transformation session or personal painting session. You can even charge pretty. So it could be an optician. And it could be an eye check up, or something like that. So to do this, I mean, we click on settings, and we can change a design. And all of that, as always, I mean, you can change the design aesthetic of absolutely anything on these templates. But we want to hit managed services. And what we're going to do is we are going to be able to actually edit this service. We can add other things on here. We want to. We could, for example, have a a paid strategy called if we wanted to. But if you're an agency owner, I'd recommend you just having a free one. So we've got services on the site down. Here, hit these three buttons hit edit, and there's a couple of things you want to make sure you do. If you're setting this up, do you strategy called title changes description session, probably around 15 minutes is about right, and we don't want any fee you could put rice in here that you could put a custom price or fixed price and charge people for it, depending on whatever you're trying to build this website for location business address. But really, if you're an agency owner, you want to do add video conferencing that's going to enable us to actually get a link sent over to the person who books a call in with us, and they can click that link and have a video conferencing and have a video conferencing link with us. We can have a video meeting via zoom zoomcom. So here we can integrate our Zoom account if you don't, you zoom going zoomcom, and and you can really easily have video conferences with potential clients, video meetings, and you just hit, connect there and link your account up. So save. Now there's loads of other functionality on here. There's lots of other things that you can do. But very simply, what I'm just going to show you is if we go into the calendar and hit more action, say, you can sink this with your Google calendar. So you can make sure that this is synced across all of your platforms. And other thing you want to do is set work hours. So you want to make sure that if you're an agency owner, you're not busy. You're not free all day. Casey don't want to be free 10 am to 6 pm. You want to add different times in here, and maybe put like, for example, 9 am till, for example, 10 am. And then we could also set 11 am to 11:30 am.
So we're setting our intermittent times throughout the day. So it looks like we're busier than we are as a new agency owner. You don't want to look like you're free all day. It's not gonna look professional. So going to hit save, and we're going to come off this for now. Okay, so you again, you can use this booking platform. However, you want to. You can have payments on there, depending on what business you are running. But that's already built into this template. That is a premium feature. So I'm going to be running through how you actually use premium. And yeah, how are you upgrade to that? And the cost implications of that in a moment. But let's just say we are finished editing this Edge website. Okay, all we will need to do is change the images. And I would recommend you changing these images. You don't want them to stick with the template images. You want to ensure that you use something different, because you don't have the exact same amount just as loads of other websites out there. So you want to ensure that you change the text, you change the images. And yeah, you make this your around. You personalize it as much as possible. If you want to change the image, all you do is Click Change image there. Okay, but let's just say we're finished editing this website. Very, very easy to do. And we want to publish this right now. Okay, so all we need to do is we could go to site, and we could hit publish, or we could go publish in the top right hand corner. Here we hit publish. Now, when we have published, it's going to publish on to a Wicks domain name. But we want to make sure that we have a professional domain name for our business. So we can either upgrade our account here, or we can do it as straight from the editor and connect a domain name. So we want to have something like Golden Eagle marketing if we can find something like that. So we go over to settings at the top. Here we can click connect domain name. And if we already own a domain anchors with water elsewhere, we can either connect it straight through to Wix by clicking, connect a domain name you already own, or we can buy a new domain name straight from which. So let's see if we can find anythingsimple, which is 11 so you can we go. Can we get golden eagle marketing? We could do golden eagle marketing dotnet. And then we have the option to either upgrade to a yearly plan on Wix, and we can get the domain name for free, or we can just buy the domain name itself separately. Okay, so it's completely your choice. Whatever works best for your business if I click upgrade down to run you through some of the options as the upgrade options. Because, of course, if we do want to have a booking system, we will need to have a premium account. And it's again, your choice to way up what works out best for you for your business. I'm not going to advise you on what option you you should take, because it depends on your business, your website and what you're trying to achieve out of this. If you want to booking system, then you are going to want to have a business or e-commerce once it's gonna have to be one of these options, way up everything underneath him. If it's just a normal website, and you don't need a booking system or e-commerce, then you can be any of these ranging all the way down to three pounds per month. But you will have to pay additional for your domain name, which will end up depending on the domain name be around 10 pounds per month with it's a simple domain name. So that is very, very simply, how you can create a website light for your agency at today, and literally with no experience whatsoever from a template and any other business. Before that instance. Let's go over to the beautiful website that we have actually just created. Let's go back onto that and hit preview. Now, of course, in any given circumstance, I would spend a lot more time actually building this website out. But I just want to show you exactly what Wicks is capable of, and just how easy it is for you to create a website. Even if you have no experience whatsoever, it doesn't have to be a daunting task. And so many people spend a lot of time procrastinating when they first launched a business about what their website is going to be like, what they need to include on it. And building a website from a template is it just relieves absolutely all of that stress. And it means you don't have to worry about that, and you can focus on getting it out of the way, getting your website done. So you can ensure that you're spending your time signing up client. So you can ensure you're spending your time driving Revenue into your business. Instead of building out all of the mechanics. Okay, you can get something built very, very easily, very quickly. And you can build something up yourself without having to stress out about code. And that happened to pay somebody thousands of pounds to do it for you. So guys, that is the end of this Blog. I hope you have enjoyed it. Please do share it with somebody else who will get value from it. If you have any questions whatsoever, drop me down a comment below, and whether that's abut Wix or about building an agency website and everything that entails.