Create your author website in Canva

Welcome to my Children's Book Marketing series! In these videos, I'll be showing you how to create marketing materials for your children's book! For this episode, we'll be creating an author website in Canva!

THANK YOU Karen Copeland for allowing me to create your author website to use an example for this tutorial!
Karen's Author Website:
https://karenycopeland.my.canva.site/

⬇️ 📚 MY COURSE! 🎨 ⬇️
I created a course to walk you step-by-step through creating and publishing a children's book in Canva from start to finish!
https://www.heathercash.art/challenge...

🖼 CANVA 🖼
Canva is an awesome platform for laying out designs - it's super easy to learn, has licensed illustrations ready to drop into your work, great collaboration tools, and so much more! Here is my affiliate link, thank you so much for your support!
https://partner.canva.com/heathercashart

📖 SIMPLEBOOKLET 📖
Simplebooklet is an amazing platform that is great for previewing your children's book spreads!
If you'd like to sign up for Simplebooklet, here is my affiliate link! Thank you so much for your support!
https://simplebooklet.com/signup.php?...

🎨 CREATIVITY CLUB 🎨
Join my Creativity Club, where we discuss our projects, and motivate each other!
  / heatherscreativityclub  

👩🏼‍🦰 CHARACTERS & TEMPLATES 🐸
Here's where you can order some character illustrations for your book, templates with proper sizing and guides, and other products & services:
https://www.heathercash.art/category/...

💻 TUTORIALS 🤓
Here are some tutorials to help you lay out your children's book in Canva:
   • 🟣🟣🟣 CANVA 🟣🟣🟣 - Children's Book for A...  

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00:00 Introduction
:21 Canva Author website
1:25 Step 1
2:10 Step 2
4:36 Step 3
6:40 Design Tip
7:32 URL trick
9:21 Shadows
10:50 Step 4
11:12 Copy to clipboard
11:42 Sizing trick
12:54 Preview
13:25 Linking
13:59 Positioning
14:28 Step 5
15:06 Paste trick
16:19 Step 6
17:16 Step 7
20:05 Linking icons
21:02 Grouping
21:33 Step 8
22:41 Step 9
23:29 Step 10
25:35 Final thoughts