Create your own website It may seem like an insurmountable mountain to you, and you don't know where to start, do you?
Fortunately, there is a platform that is very accessible to beginners who are looking to create their own website with ease!
And today I'm going to talk to you about the Showit platform: The best platform to create a website with complete peace of mind, even if you know nothing about technology!
However, the problem with all this is that Showit, being an American tool and more developed in the US, currently doesn't have a French version and there are few... Showit training in French.
But at Template Market, we offer you ready-to-use Showit templates To save time creating your website and... these website templates come with... Showit tutorials so that you can easily customize your model completely And without any hassle!
What is the curriculum for the Showit training program at Template Market?
Module 1: Getting Started with Showit
Purchasing your domain name and creating your professional email address:
Discover how buy the domain name for your website and how to set up a professional email address for your business (goodbye @gmail.com which doesn't look professional at all!)?
Showit subscription choice:
I'll guide you in choosing the right Showit subscription based on your current situation and future functionality needs. This subscription is a monthly or annual investment, but which includes hosting your website, So you won't have to pay anything else! And most importantly, no maintenance or updates to do either 🙂
Create your Showit account:
Let's go! It's time to create your account on this platform and you'll see it's just a matter of 3 clicks!
Installing the template of your choice:
I'll show you how Install your design on this page builder. Simply add a license key, validate it, and your design will be ready to be customized to your image and color palette 🙂
Module 2: Learn Showit and customize your template
Module 2 is the most intensive part of the Showit training; it's where you'll find absolutely all the tutorial videos for learn to use Showit And customize your website template as easily as on Canva (no more stressful websites)!
You'll see that yes, it's possible to enjoy customizing your site even if you're not a web designer.
Here are the videos you will find in this module:
- The basics and interface of Showit
- Add your visual identity to Showit: customize your colors and typography
- Keyboard shortcuts, sections & locking
- Mastering the mobile version and responsive design for all screens
- Image formats to use and how to optimize them for your website
- Add custom decorations via CANVA
- Create a "Coming Soon" page"
- Mastering Canvas View
- Create pop-ups (with or without click)
- Edit the navigation menu
- The SEO structure of the texts to be respected
- Add text, links, icons, and shapes
- Use click actions & animations
- Add images & galleries
- Create a contact form with Showit
- Create a more complete form with Tally.so
- Add your Instagram feed easily and without a plugin
- Install a cookie banner (GDPR compliant)
- Tip for easily creating your legal pages
- Add a site favicon
- Create permanent redirects for pages or categories
Module 3: Sales, Appointment Scheduling, and Marketing
In this module, I'll tell you about the tools you'll be able to use to sell on Showit, or even all the external features you can add for sell your services online on a showcase website.
- Add a form for your lead magnet with Mailerlite
- Create a welcome email sequence on Mailerlite
- Solutions for selling on Showit (products and services)
- How to create a Stripe account and payment links
- Automate your appointment booking directly from your website with Calendly Or Cal.com
- Create a video workflow on your website with VideoAsk by Typeform
- Showit Ecommerce: Discovering Shopify starter to create your shop and add payment buttons
Module 4: Optimize your SEO on Showit and track your website statistics
- The basics of SEO: an introduction to organic search engine optimization
- SEO optimizations to make to your site before launch
- Install Google Analytics and understand basic statistics
Article to read: SEO Showit: The Ultimate Guide to Boosting Your Organic Search Engine Optimization
Module 5: Preparing the launch of your Showit website
Here, we're preparing for the launch of your site. Since we usually have to wait for the Showit team to get back to us before we can add your domain name and create your WordPress blog, we're getting a head start 🙂
In these videos, I show you how to link your domain name by adding an entry in your DNS zone, and I explain how to ask Showit to set up your WordPress blog, you'll see it's super simple!
Article to read: How to announce the launch of a new website?
Roadmap Notion: The step-by-step action plan to create and launch your professional website
Module 6: Discovering the WordPress part of your Showit website
In this module, I'll explain everything related to your WordPress blog section. Don't worry, it's nothing like a typical WordPress site, as you'll only use this section to post your articles. the Gutenberg text editor of WordPress.
I'll show you all the adjustments you need to make before your launch, and How to format your articles on WordPress.
I also explain how you can create article categories for your blog and how you can display these articles on your site's homepage if you wish.
And finally, I'll give you a tip to hide one of your pages on your Showit site (currently Showit doesn't allow this), but if you want to hide a sales page for a service or an upcoming offer, this is an interesting tip!
As a bonus, the expert masterclass: How to find clients through an SEO blog
And because our goal is for your website to allow you to grow your freelance business and find clients, We contacted Océane, SEO expert to teach you how to write blog articles that will allow you to optimize your Google ranking while generating qualified leads!
Ready to discover Showit's training to create the website of your dreams?
Here we go, Choose your Showit template And you get immediate access to tutorials to learn how to fully customize the template design, all without needing to code thanks to Showit's drag-and-drop editor 🙂
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