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Make-Up Blog Template from Wix – Web Design – Tutorial

Let’s explore the Make-Up template from Wix.com. Learn Web design along the way, from a Wix Certified Trainer.

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Great for bloggers and reviewers interested in beauty style and wellness.

Itching to comment on the latest brands and styles? Can’t wait to share your experiences from last week’s fashion event? Turn this beautiful blog template into your own by easily adding custom text and images. Tell your readers a bit about yourself, connect your social media, and quickly become an online sensation!

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So if you’re joining me for the first time I am Michael Wood with Captivatim Multimedia and Web Design and I will be your guide, your tour guide today on the Wix template called “Make-up Blog”. This is a great template for anybody who is a fashion, makeup, or wellness lifestyle blogger, and you just want to show or have a great way to show your work and to have
a blog that continually updates and has an excellent interface and can adjust itself to different screen sizes. So hopefully you can learn something from here, I’m sure you will, and thank you everyone for joining me. Let’s go ahead and get started.

I’m going to go on a little tour of the site. Let’s check out all of its features and then I’ll show you how to customize the site. Now remember that when you’re looking at these different components, you are going to replace each of these items with your own stuff. You know, make it yours; your own branding, your own photos. Now if you’re doing some kind of health, beauty, and wellness website, you want to make sure that you’re using the most authentic photos that you can. Especially if you are doing your own makeup or beauty treatments. It’s good to have lots of before-and-after shots.. but this website is not just for people who do makeup. This can also be for you if you really have a lot to say about some of the different products that are out there and for some of you, you can make quite a bit of money being sort of an affiliate for all of these different health and beauty products.

There are people who travel the world literally the world and they just basically look nice and look beautiful everywhere they go and along the way they show off some awesome beauty products that they’re using. There’s nothing like taking just a beautiful photo of yourself or your significant other on the beautiful mountains overlooking Spain, the gorgeous sunset, and it’s just this perfect shot. What a great way to advertise this amazing skin toner that you have. And then people can click on the link and they could buy the skin toner, for example, maybe even get a discount from you and guess what? You get a percentage of that sale. If you multiply that by tens, hundreds, thousands, then that little bit of extra that you get will add up and why travel? Well not only is it great for locations, it’s fun, but remember, you get to use those geotags. So if you’re in Spain, you can use #Spain #Madrid or then the next week you go to Miami you can use #Miami to show where you are and so it’s a great way to really build a huge audience. But if you’re going to be busy traveling the world, or you’re busy making commentary on makeup and beauty products, or you’re actually applying, facials to yourself or to others, you’re going to want to have a website that works for you. A website that will display your work and gather leads, all in the background. The last thing you’re going to want to do is to .maintain your website with so much detail you can’t do any health beauty and wellness things anymore and some of you are not technicians. Well don’t worry about it. This website will take care of itself.

Let’s go ahead and go through it so you can just get some great ideas on some of the features that this template will give you. Things that are already built in for you. Alright, so this website is called the “shades of pink” which is a makeup blog and there are three major sections. There’s the makeup section..let me go to the live site here… there’s a makeup section, as you see, when I hover the mouse over the button it lights up green. So this website does use a lot of pink and green which it should. It’s called “shades of pink” right? Remember you can change all of the colors to match your personal style. So here I hover over the buttons and those are the three major sections.

If you are a web designer then this video in this template is great for you too because once you learn how to do this template there is a huge industry out there and you can create their websites for them. So again, create this site for yourself or for others.

Find out more how to customize this site and get the full transcript at www.webmasteracademy.online

So if you’re joining me for the first time I am Michael Wood with Captivatim Multimedia and Web Design and I will be your guide, your tour guide today on the Wix template called make-up template this is a great template for anybody who is a fashion makeup and/or wellness lifestyle blogger, and you just want to show or have a great way to show your work and to have a blog that continually updates and has an excellent interface and can adjust
itself to different screen sizes. So hopefully you can learn something from here, I’m sure you will, and thank you everyone for joining me. Let’s go ahead and get started. Hello everyone, let’s go ahead and get into this website. First thing we’re going to do is I’m going to go on a little tour of the site. Let’s check out all of its features and then I’ll show you how to customize the site. Now remember that when you’re looking at these
different components, you are going to replace each of these items with your own stuff. You know, make it yours; your own branding, your own photos. Now if you’re doing some kind of health beauty and wellness website you want to make sure that you’re using the most authentic photos that you can. Especially if you are doing your own makeup or beauty treatments. It’s good to have lots of before-and-after shots, but this shot, or this website is not
just for people who do makeup. This can also be for you if you really have a lot to say about some of the different products that are out there and for some of you, you can make quite a bit of money being sort of an affiliate for all of these different health and beauty products. There are people who travel the world literally the world and they just basically look nice and look beautiful everywhere they go and along the way they show off some
awesome beauty products that they’re using. There’s nothing like taking just a beautiful photo of yourself or your significant other on the beautiful mountains overlooking Spain, the gorgeous sunset, and it’s just this perfect shot. What a great way to advertise this amazing skin toner that you have. And then people can click on the link and they could buy the skin toner, for example, maybe even get a discount from you and guess what? You get a
percentage of that sale. If you multiply that by tens, hundreds, thousands, then that little bit of extra that you get will add up and why travel? Well not only is it great for locations, it’s fun, but remember, you get to use those geo tags. So if you’re in Spain, you can use #Spain #Madrid or then the next week you go to Miami you can use #Miami to show where you are and so it’s a great way to really build a huge audience. But what you’re going
to do if you’re going to be busy traveling the world, or you’re busy making commentary on makeup and beauty products, or you’re actually applying, facials to yourself or to others, you’re going to want to have a website that works for you. A website that will display your work and gather leads, all in the background. The last thing you’re going to want to do is to maintain your website with so much detail you can’t do any health beauty and
wellness things anymore and some of you are not technicians. Well don’t worry about it. This website will take care of itself. Let’s go ahead and go through it so you can just get some great ideas on some of the features that this template will give you. Things that are already built in for you. Alright, so this website is called the “shades of pink” which is a makeup blog and there are three major sections. There’s the makeup section..let me go
to the live site here… there’s a makeup section, as you see, when I hover the mouse over the button it lights up green. So this website does use a lot of pink and green which it should. It’s called “shades of pink” right? Remember you can change all of the colors to match your personal style. So here I hover over the buttons and those are the three major sections. I suggest you come up with three major categories for the health beauty and
wellness things you do. Let me just say before I move forward that if you are a web designer then this video in this template is great for you too because once you learn how to do this template there is a huge industry out there and you can create their websites for them. So again, create this site for yourself or for others and if anything I’m talking about in this video you feel like you need more information on, feel free to ask a question and
be sure to check us out at www.webmasteracademy.online The link is down there in the show notes and that is the place where I can teach you to build websites from paper and pencil concept all the way to automation. I love it when a website does all the work for you, right? So let’s get back to this template. three major sections makeup skin care and hair when I scroll down as you can see there’s a few there’s several images here and what these
are these are blog posts now you look at it the loo you look at it carefully it can almost look like a magazine especially if you have really good photos so it’s kind of your own personal magazine I mean how fun would that be to have your own personal magazine and get paid for it so these are blog posts and the latest blog post will automatically display here I’ll show you how to do that in a little bit there’s a link to all posts if people want
to read more and see the other things you’ve posted there is an About section this is where you talk about yourself and your perspective there’s a read more button for that and then there’s this interesting there’s this interesting strip of photos and these are not just random photos when I go behind the scenes it’s most likely either blog posts or an Instagram feed I’m not sure yet I will go behind the scenes soon and of course down at the
bottom you have a subscription option so people can get on your mailing list when they put in their address here you will collect their address and on the backend of Wix com you would just log in and all of those email addresses will be collected in a contact list you can then send out emails and shout outs to your list I’m going to scroll back up and I want to see what the menu does for us so up here in the top left-hand of the website you have
the home button you have the blog button about me in contact I we kind of know what the blog button will do let’s look at the other ones real quick if I click on contact that that takes us to a new page that’s dedicated to this and here’s where they can write a more detailed message to you now you don’t have to have the picture of the typewriter it looks really neat and on this website but in fact it’s kind of reminiscent of typing out an old
letter on a typewriter but remember you could switch these images out for your personal style there’s the about me link at the top and this takes people to a page dedicated to you and it’s important people know who you are and what your perspective is in the health beauty and wellness space so here you just simply would have a picture of yourself and some copy there and there’s another way for the press and for in other inquiries to reach out to
you you will receive these messages in your email inbox and you set that up on the back end then at the bottom of here you do have some social media links and you also have social media links at the top right-hand side now let’s go ahead and jump to the blog page this is really the the centerpiece of this website it’s really just a big blog except there are ways to make your blog look a lot more presentable and if you’re doing a health wellness
and beauty type of blog then looks or everything right I mean that’s the whole point of the site so what’s interesting here is right here at the top of the blog you have different categories so when you do blog posts your users are able to click on one of these buttons and it will filter through the different types of blog posts that you’ve made in this case the on the template they’ve separated it into hair makeup and skincare categories the
other interesting thing is people can log in and sign up so it’s another great way to get leads but why would somebody log in well they would create a membership really to your site and then this allows them to comment and have a discussion about the various blog posts that you’re writing and with that discussion what are you going to build two things one you’ll be building a relationship with your audience but the other thing is you’ll be
building search engine optimizations or SEO if you’ve studied SEO you know that a lot of the new search engine optimizations coming from Google are starting to rely more on authentic language and gone are those days where when you could just spam your website with random words the Google algorithm it detects more natural discussions and so what better way to interact with your visitors than to allow them to create an account where they can then
comment and you can interact with them on the website as well and just build awesome discussions and conversations around topics and watch your SEO just skyrocket it’s really special good point for some of you who are just starting out so that is the blog where you can filter by category and you can have people sign up now if someone clicks on a blog post then the web page is created with a title subtitle a full image where there’s a Pinterest
Save button there so that’ll get you more SEO and exposure as people share your images and it’s a really nice content design you could put your hashtags you can put in links you can put other images and your users can share your blog post on their social media so what a great encouragement to you to really create outstanding content on your site create posts that invite discussions create the posts that people want to share and part of that is
being original and having your own original images will go a long way in areas like Pinterest because Pinterest is very photo & graphic centered so when you have an original image that you’ve created then that’s going to be something people will see and then share and then your website will get out there in the general public so some great features let’s go under the hood and see how and and in what ways can we customize this template for
your brand or service I’m going to see if there’s any questions here let me know how you like this template give me a thumbs up a like a heart a happy face a sad face just curious to see what you guys think about this template from Wix calm now you don’t have to be a Wix comm member to really appreciate this site you can use other companies or your own you know made from the ground up type of design the web design principle are the same so let me
let me know what you guys think go ahead and give me a thumbs up a like and put in your comments and if you’re watching this during the replay I will see your comments and I will try to get back to you as soon as possible alright looks like so far so good let’s go ahead and go under the hood and see and find ways we can customize the site when I go to the editor it always asks you to save your site alright the first section is of course the title
and the title is in the header of the site it’s in the header section so you would go ahead and just double click the text edit text and here you can change the colors to match your brand now this palette is looks like it’s like a gray pink green kind of an olive green and another kind of a green yellow you can change the palette to match your style how do you do that just click the Change button you can pick some pre-made templates or you can go
to each one of these colors and you can actually put in the exact RGB values or hex code to find the exact color you want you would then say add done and then you would have a palette that you can draw from during the rest of the site design work this section right here is let’s see if it’s on a strip okay so this is basically three columns that they’ve built see there’s three separate columns and let’s go ahead and change the column background
and I could change it to a solid color see the difference right there right okay so I can just go here I could change the background to solids or I can change into different images or I could even put video if you want to see what that looks like let me get let’s do a quick preview here it’s not the best video for this website but if you see the lonja the tiger roaring there I just wanted to show you that you could put fullscreen video in each
column so that’s a really powerful feature I’m just going to click on image and I can go into Wix and I could pick out other images from Wix calm you know what’s going to match your brand and style I’m going to change this background here there we go alright so that’s how you change each of the columns then the next section is the blog and what’s nice is you don’t really have to mess with this section a whole lot it’s actually going to create
itself when you do the blog posts this is called a custom feed I can change the settings here by clicking on settings I can just feed out a certain category if I’d like to or I can change the display I can take away the author name and picture the date I could take out the view counter the comments and the lights if you’re a brand new site and maybe you have zero views and zero likes then it’s okay to go ahead and just take those off but if you
start getting a good number a hundred or even a thousand you go ahead and put those counters right there for people to see and if you don’t want people to comment you could just uncheck that so they don’t need to comment you can change the layout now this is a template so when you start playing with layouts then you start getting into more web design type of work so for this one we won’t really mess with the layout and for the design we can
change the colors the overlay color so here it’s a kind of a green and I’m going to move the image overlay color slider to the right to a hundred percent and you see there’s no image at all take it back a little bit to like 63 percent and then you could see the color overlay that would be good just to keep your consistent look and feel on the site that’s where you would use that okay and then that is the feed for the site and the all post button
is going to link to your actual blog page which we’ll look at in a moment the About section you simply type in a paragraph and the button to read more will link right on over to the about me page on the site it’s already linked for you so you don’t really have to do any customizations there if you want to change the look of the button then you would click on the button and then click on design and here you could change the overall look and feel
of the button if you want it to be more of a circle you could do that customize design and here you could change the color to match the palette of your website so that’s how you can customize the button now this feed right here I remember when I first looked at it I was wondering where they’re pulling these photos from and so I’m going to click on settings and yep that’s what I thought it’s an Instagram feed so what you would do is disconnect the
Instagram account you would then go ahead and add your Instagram account and then this feed will automatically be updated along with your Instagram account and what’s nice about that is people can not only look at great fresh content but if I do a preview they can actually give a heart and a comment for each of your images without leaving your website and this is a great way for your website to be updated in the background while you’re busy
taking amazing shots for Instagram so that’s a Instagram feed that’s going on here and it is edge to edge it’s a stretched-out edge to edge screen and so this feed will adjust to different screen sizes so let’s go into the blog itself are there any questions so far let me just check so far so good let me know what you guys think about the customization options here now I’m in the blog itself so one of the things I’ll do now this is this blog is
hosted on Wix com that’s important for you to know because there’s other ways to do a blog there’s a you can use blogger com tumblr I give video tutorials on how to integrate each of these onto your website just check us out at the webmaster academy I’ll also show you how to build in a custom Wix blog which is what this is but it’s already here for you so all you need to do is click on manage posts and the Wix dashboard will pop up and so you
actually update the blog posts on the back end which is really nice because then you could work with your blog posts and not have to mess with your actual blog or web design you just have to be concerned about content the other nice thing about this feature is you can bring in collaborators so if you’re a modeling agency you can bring in you know some of your Generation Xers or Generation Y or Z people are really good at computers have them log
in to your Wix site as a contributor and they can update the blog and manage the blog without having to touch the web design itself so here is obviously where you can you know manage your posts you can delete them duplicate them you could turn off commenting this tells you how long ago each was made I clicked on this button up in the top right create a post this is where you’re going to add your titles and your descriptions these buttons allow
you to add an image or even a gallery you can have a photo gallery or video if I click add video it just basically will allow you to put a link from Facebook YouTube or Vimeo so this will rely on Hosting through one of those three services you can add a divider just to keep your information nice and clean and then publish and one of the other things is the post settings now under settings this is where you’re going to optimize your content for
Google so you want to talk about great search engine optimization that’s right here you’ll actually see what Google sees when it indexes your site so you have a lot of control here then on the categories tab this is where you will filter each of your blog posts remember we had that functionality in the beginning where people can select which blog posts they wanted to read and this is where you set up all of those categories you can obviously
delete the ones are there that are there currently and come up with your own then that would basically publish out the blog post so that is how you update the blog it’s through the back end through the Wix dashboard if you don’t know how to get to the Wix dashboard you would just click on your blog and say manage posts and that will take you there automatically if I click on settings you saw this before this is where we can change what categories
we wanted we want to be displayed we can change some of the settings what gets displayed we can decide different ways we want the content to be out there so look at that they gave a very different feel to it and it focused more on the titles this is good when you have a lot of blog posts already and you want people to see that you have a lot of excellent content for them to go through going back into settings here you can adjust the design to
every detail to the button to the background I mean anything that you want to make it your own you can go ahead and and change that here I change the blog background to a solid color I can then adjust the opacity on that color so those are some of the amazing things and the other thing you could do is blog privacy so who can write posts on your blog you can have the owner and writers or all members so they have to be members of your site and this
is a way to bring in people from outside your organization to actually add content for you so that’s pretty cool right and you can of course change the blog subject to something that’s going to fit your personal brand and style so that is how we update and change the blog on this site the rest of the pages are pretty self-explanatory I mean the content page you would just click on the image change image and either upload your own or find a free
image from Wix or you can go to Shutterstock images and pay for a very specific image do you find just the right one and then on the contact form you can click on settings and then change the email address that those messages will be get will be sent to and you can add a secondary email usually you would add an email to the owner of the website and sometimes you can send that secondary email to your tech support and for them they know that your
contact page is working i’ve designed several websites where i’m the secondary email just because i want to make sure their websites working properly i don’t ever answer those emails or address them at all but again it lets me know that things are working on their site so that’s another idea for that secondary email so that everyone is the make up blog website from Wix calm now there are any other questions before we leave nope so far so good
what do you think of this template let me know give me a heart or a light thank you for being with me if you’ve been listening this far I really appreciate you don’t forget to subscribe to this channel and/or subscribe to this page and if you want to know more about building websites from pencil and paper concept to automation I will show you everything you need to know about building these sites @ww webmaster academy online and I have that link
down in the show notes don’t forget to subscribe everybody and I look forward to seeing you next time at the academy we’ll see you again thanks for coming by bye