Start here with creating your website

Hi there :)

Welcome to this e-course! Excited that you are here and starting on this journey.

Starting to create your own website is exciting, but it can be overwhelming too!

There is lots to learn, but just take it easy, step by step.

We promise you that things you may find complicated at the start
will be second nature very soon!

If you invest a little bit of time now you’ll give yourself the skills you need to create your own website and grow & blossom your business.

And what’s more exciting than that? Creating your dream life and doing what you love every day?

If you have any questions please contact us straight away through support in the menu above :)

In the first part – Get to know your Website – We’ll explain a few things and take you on a tour through your site.

Once you have gone through the info here, you can move on to “Your Website Step by Step“.  In this part  we take you on a step by step journey through the process of creating your website. Along the way, we’ll often send you to some of the other classes in this classroom, to learn about something, before we continue.

So let’s dive into getting to know your website first below!

 

Get to know your website

In this part of the classroom we’ll:

  • Briefly explain a few things that are handy for you to know and understand
  • Give you a visual overview showing you the different parts of your website
  • Take you on a guided tour through your website to familiarize yourself with what’s where.

By going through this class here, you’ll start to understanding what the different bits of your website are, and where & how  you can make them the way you’d like to have them. Don’t worry – you don’t need to memorize everything that you see now. We will show you all of these things more in depth later. This is just to give you some kind of feel of how things work and where they are.

Please take a bit of time to go through what we share here, it will make your website designer life a lot easier!

Let’s create some website magic!

Introduction to your website

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Divi, WordPress and a Child theme??

Yay you have a website pack set -up!  We’ve made sure it’s got all you’ll need and the latest & best technology for creating websites with joy and ease. But what are all those things actually, what is WordPress, what is Divi, and what is the Dawn Theme?

Let’s make that clear to you, because it will be easier to work with your site if you understand better what you have :)

The basis of your website is WordPress, a system that allows you to create pages and posts yourself. The WordPress system also manages your menu content for you.

The Divi Theme is another layer of functionality that allows you to use a Visual Page Builder, insert modules such as text, an image, email optin and make site wide changes for fonts and colours.

Our Dawn Theme is a Divi Child Theme  – a special design layer for your website. The Divi theme offers amazing customisation possibilities, you can create almost anything, and that is exactly the problem also :)

It’s overwhelming and a lot of work to make all the settings to give all the modules and content the same consistent look.

This is where our Child Theme comes in. We have created a consistent design for your site, and all the modules have the same look out of the box that you can futher adapt and customize.

Moreover, we have created sample content; some pages, a menu, some blog posts. Our Dawn Library Modules also have sample content which means you immediately see what they look like when you add them to your pages.

This means you don’t start with a blank slate, there is a menu, there ares some pages and you can immediately see what you have and start replacing this content with your own.