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The Create Manual: Part 2 - Choosing Your Template and Colours
The best place to start when putting your website together is the Create Design section. It’s here where you will choose one of our templates to set the look and style of your website. Don’t worry though, your template can easily be changed at anytime in Create.
This guide will cover the following topics:
A template sets the underlying look and feel of your website, including the colours, layout and font style. Create offers a wide selection of templates to choose from, each with their own distinctive look. Every template within Create is responsive, so will display correctly on mobile devices and customisable. You can easily change the template of your website at any time.
To begin, click on the Design option located in the top-menu.
Clicking on the Brush icon that is shown in the left-hand menu will open the Create Design section.
A menu will open on the left-hand side of the screen. It is here where you can choose the template you would like to use for your website. You can preview all of the different themes by clicking on the Preview theme button. Nothing is set until you click on the OK > Save option.
Selecting Your Website Colours
Once you have chosen your template, you can edit your colour scheme by selecting Colours within Design in the left-hand menu. By default, our templates come with a carefully chosen collection of colours that complement the chosen template, but you can change these to your own choices if you prefer.
You can choose the colour element you want to edit and choose the colour you want from either the basic palette, colour wheel, RGB, Hex code or from your saved Favourites. This is great if you have a specific colour scheme in mind to match a logo or existing branding.
The fonts used on your website are all shown in the Font section in the left-hand menu, below the colours section.
Much like the colours, these have been selected to compliment the template you currently have chosen, but you can change these to your preference if you wish. Just click on a font type you would like to change, to open up a selection of fonts to choose from.
After completing the above steps, your theme has now been selected, along with the colours and fonts. Remember that these can be changed at any time if you happen to change your mind about any of the selections you’ve made.
If you happen to have a logo design you would like to add to your website, please follow this guide for instructions of how to add the image.
You’re now ready to move onto adding content to your website.
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