Ready to learn how to create a website with Canva?
These websites are going to be super easy so anyone with a Canva account can follow this guide to create a simple website or landing page for your small business, portfolio, event, or anything else you want.
Let’s get into the guide!
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What Types of Websites You Can Create With Canva?
Put simply, the website or landing page you will create with Canva will not replace your main website.
It only allows you to create a simple website for a small purpose by accessing their pre-made website templates, and media libraries, uploading your own images, embedding videos, and some other appealing features.
Let’s create your website with Canva!
How to Create a Website With Canva
Canva is offering some free website templates and some others are available only to Canva PRO users.
If you’re using a free account you can start with a blank template or you can try any template from the Canva library.
#Step1
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First, choose one of the templates and click click on the “Customize this template” button to start customizing.
#Step2
Now, your template will open up in the Canva editor so you can start customizing it with your own brand colors, images, and elements until you’re happy with it.
The left sidebar of the Canva editor provides you with all the resources for your website creation and the top bar allows you to edit your elements one by one.
With the help of the bottom bar, you can add new pages, and it lets you switch between each page to customize them as you want.
After you’ve done all the customizations, you can add some external links to your website.
#Step3
In this example, I’ve placed a “Contact Me” button so I need to provide an external link to the contact form or something else.
If you’re looking for a way to connect with your website users, you can use free form builders like Jotform.com to create forms to take product orders, bookings, registrations, etc.
Once you’ve created a form with Jotform, you can simply add that form link to your Canva website.
To create a link, select any element or text and click the “link icon” at the top toolbar, and put your external link there.
#Step4
Now it’s time to get a domain name for your website. Click the “Publish as Website” button at the upper right corner of the Canva editor and it will prompt a small popup with two options.
The big news is that Canva now supports registering new domains so you can get your dream domain name registered with them or you can continue with their free domain.
If you select to use their free domain, it will look something like yourname.my.canva.site and it doesn’t cost you a cent.
If you want to purchase a new domain It will look something like yourname.com.
Choose your preferred way and click “Continue” and follow the instruction to get your domain name.
#Step5
After all, you can now publish your website to share it with your family, friends, and all the internet users.
Give your website a description or add a password and simply hit the “Publish” button to make it live!
And there you go!
Now you can share your website with others and they can view your website from any device.
Final Thoughts
Canva will save you tons of time and help you design anything yourself.
But the real game-changer is Canva PRO.
It provides you with dozen of pre-made templates for every kind of design that needs to help you grow your business and increase your productivity by creating visual content with a range of premium tools.
It’s really worth it.
Let me know your thoughts and experience with creating a website with Canva.
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Is it possible to create a website to put a picture on a T-shirt and print it?
Canva can be used to create a simple "one-page website," which isn't an excellent choice for creating fully functional websites.
Awesome info thumbs 👍🏽. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for your kind words, Ana!
Does Canva offer an email with the domain like other sites do like the Squarespace site does?
There is no such feature for custom email addresses. But they allow you to purchase domains through Canva.
Thanks, I guess just linking like a gmail address to my website would probably work as I would purchase the domain through Canva. I'm becoming a freelance copywriter & definitely need an email that will link to me easily & would prefer it be from the website but, Do you think that would work fine through a Canva domain website to just link an email?
For smaller purposes, Canva websites are a good option. As I mentioned before, Jotform can be used to create contact forms for your website as well. However, if you need to create a website for work, I suggest trying one of the website builders listed in this article: https://share.talkbitz.com/CxJrV.
Can you update the website on Canva after publishing?
Yes, you can edit and republish the website.
Great info and thank you for sharing. Is it possible to update or make changes to the website after publishing?
Yes, you can make changes and republish the website.
If you have published a website without purchasing the canva domain, can you go back and add the domain after?
That might be possible when you republish your site.
Do I need a main website, or I can run only in Canva?
This guide only shows you how to make a website inside Canva using their templates. Those websites will be handled by Canva. But that might be not a practical solution for a business website. if you want to make a full-featured website, you can simply follow our guide here: https://talkbitz.com/how-to-make-a-website/
Great. Is the website mobile friendly?
Hi, Nancy. If you need a mobile-friendly design you have to use one of the “Bio-Link Websites” or “Mobile-First Websites” templates. But every template is not unacceptable when you need a website for both Desktop and Mobile use. These templates will not replace your main website.
Update: Most of the templates are now mobile-friendly and Canva also offers a free subdomain name as well.
How can we edit the mobile version to our wish? There is only a resize option for that
We couldn't locate any other settings that are specific to mobile devices. However, you could group the elements you wish to keep together. Here's a link to a resource that might help: https://www.canva.com/help/responsive-website-issues/