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The video "How To Create a Portfolio Website With Canva (For Free)" provides a detailed guide on building a professional portfolio website using Canva's free tools. It walks viewers through each step, from selecting templates to customizing design elements and adding personal content. Perfect for artists, designers, and professionals, this tutorial helps users create an impressive online portfolio without any cost.
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How to Create Portfolio website with Canva for free
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Hey guys, welcome. In this video, I'm going to show you how to create a portfolio website using Canva for free
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So let's get into it. First, you're going to go to Canva.com and you will get right here
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You can create your account on Canva.com for free using your email address or you can use your Google account
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So once you create your account on Canva, you will get right here
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There is a pro version available, but I will be using the free tools today to show you how you can create
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a professional and high quality website for free. Kenva has a lot of different tools for us
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It allows us to create presentations, edit videos, we can create invitations
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t-shirt designs, logos, and much, much more. So in order to get started with a website
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what we can do is we can either go ahead and get a custom size
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or we can actually, you know, save our time by just searching right here in the search bar
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You can search for website. It will take you to website templates
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you will be able to find a lot of different templates right here for websites
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high quality professional templates for different categories and niches. But we're looking for a portfolio website
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So you can see at the top we have different categories given. We have photography, we have beauty, we have fashion, and then we have portfolio here
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So we're going to customize our search. And now we have the best templates available
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You can see these are all portfolio websites that we can create
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So now it depends on us what kind of website we're looking for
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And I'm looking for a very simple portfolio website that I can create for my work
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So we can select the template. So I will go with a free template, which is this one
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So you can see this one looks pretty good, a photography template. And it is also related to my niche as well
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I am looking to a photography portfolio. So you can see a lot of different templates that we can go for
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So we're going to choose the template and click on customize. So you can see this is our template for a portfolio
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your website. These are all the pages if I scroll down, different pages for a website. So we can get
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started and customize it. So this is going to be the first page. And here we have the name. So of course
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I'm going to change the name here. And we can add any kind of name we want to. So for instance
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I want to go with this name. And after that, we have to enter like our title. So it's fashion photography
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portfolio So first day I actually don do fashion photography Instead we don We don do wedding photography or maybe we kind of like go for a cinematic shots or something like that So you will just enter the name here for your portfolio website
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And then we have this like star here, which I am not liking. This is not like looking very professional
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So I'm going to erase it. And then we have a button here. A lot of people think how we can add a button on Canva
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Well, you just simply create this right here. You can add a text and then you can add link to any of the text
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that you're creating. So with Conva as well, you will be able to create buttons and you will be
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able to add videos and footage too. So this is our first page. What I'm going to do is I'm going to
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actually change the theme of all the pages. So to change the theme, we need to change this background
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color that we have. So I'm going to change this color to something else that I am looking for
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For instance, we can go for this color. But of course, this is like way too dark. I'm going to make
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it lighter. And now it will look like this. So that's what I'm going to do
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I'm going to change the background color for all of my website pages like this
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So that it matches, it creates like a theme and the template will be customized completely
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because we don't want to go for a template that everybody has
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We want to make it unique. So I'm just going to change the background colors really quickly
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This right here. We're going to change it to again this color
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So this is the first thing that you will do. And now you can see it looks very different. So then you will change the text
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For the first page, I changed the text already. Then we have artist biography
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Now, here I want to add another title. I don't want to go for this one. I'm going to go for an about me page
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So we're going to go with About Me. And you can see text here we have is very less
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What we can do is we can expand the text a little bit and we can add more text
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Or you can expand this text too. So this is what it will look like. And then moving on, we have this text here, which is the featured work
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Again, you can now add some of the work here. For instance, I'm just going to give it the title of work and we can expand it a little bit and place it here
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And we will add the text according to our niche that we work in and the category that we go for
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And then again, we have a text here. We have an image as a background
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So let's change the images now. So this is the first image. We can go to the upload section here and this is where you will upload all the footage that you want to add
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You will add the photos, videos that you want to go for. in elements we can actually work you know a lot around different elements we will be able to add lines and shapes We have buttons that we can add to a website We have graphics We have stickers
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Then we have photos, videos. We have charts, tables, frames, grids. Then we have other things too
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If you want to create a header at the top, and let's say you want to add like social icons into it
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this is like our first page and you wanted to create a header. So for that, you can actually go to the element section here and add
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different elements you will be able to add like a menu you can add buttons to add social icons as well
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so to upload the media you will go to upload and upload the pictures and then add them here or we can
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also search for some free elements here in the element section we can search for different photos so
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you will add different images to your website you can see it looks like this now i have added all
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of the images how you add an image to a website so it's actually really easy you're going to first
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select where you want to add the image for instance here i I added three of the images
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So this is the image that I added. How you add, you just drag the image and drop it right here when it's above that frame
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And it will be added to that specific frame. If you want to add more images and add more frames, you can go to the elements here
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And in elements, you're going to scroll down to find frames. In frames, you will be able to find a bunch of different, you know, shapes that we can go for and add them here
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So this is how I have uploaded these images because they do like city photography and, you know, stuff like that
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So you can see I changed everything on my website and this is where it looks like now
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A pretty good looking website and I'm creating with Canva. I'm using all of the different free tools
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All of these images are for free and some of the images that I uploaded. Then we have some of the decoratives that we can go for for a website on Canva
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So for that you can go to the graphic section here and in graphic you will be able to find
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a bunch of different elements. We have different ingredients, we have stickers, we have designs, we have different collections of
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So we will be able to add them right here. And when it comes to a button, so I'm going to take you to the button section on Kenba here
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You can see all here and let's say I want to add a button here
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So what I will do is I will drag it and drop it right here. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to change the color of the button to something like this
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We can just get rid of this one right here and place the button. So after that we can go to the text
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In text, I'm going to go for a heading which is going to be click here
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click here like this and now we can select the text and change the color for the text With the text as well we can do a lot of different settings We will be able to change the color We can change the alignment of the text the font everything
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So you can see, I have selected the text and I'm going to place it here. And this is what it looks like
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You can see I created a button on Canva. If you add a text, you can see this is the text here
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Click on the fonts and you will be able to customize the font of your website
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Similarly, we can also customize the button colors and add or of the text. So a very simple design will be created with Canva, very good looking and professional
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portfolio. So with this, I have a work page. I have services page. I can create. We can add a new
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page from this option right here which says add page. If you want to delete a page, you will click on
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delete and it will be deleted. If you want to duplicate a page, you will click here. And if you
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want to again add another page you can add from here. If you want to also adjust your page sizes
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and the, you know, page numbers, then you can actually do that. For instance, we have to, we have a
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We have homepage, then we have About page, then we have Gallery, we have a contact page at the end
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But let's say you wanted to add like About Me gallery page first
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Then you can simply drag and drop the pages and adjust the sizes here
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Click on these three dots and you will be able to again delete a page, hide page, block and more
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You can zoom in to get the details of a website and of course customize your text
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This is what it will look like. You will just, you know, change all of the website
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that you can work on like one by one or you can just get a whole view and you can swipe up and down
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to work on your website. So once the website is done, you can change the name here too
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Click on preview and it will give you the preview of the website that you created
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This is what it looks like on the web. You can also get a mobile view of your website
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So you can click on publish and this is where you will publish your website
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You can also get this design to your other websites that you're creating
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on wigs or if you have any other platform. So you can see this is what my website looks like
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Resize on mobile. Then we have free domain that I can get with Kenva. We also have Kenva domains available
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Click on Continue, get the domain and publish your website. If you just want to save the design, click on share right here
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Click on download and you will be able to download this website design as a PDF or PNG as well
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But for a website, you will just click on publish and your portfolio website design will be created on Kenva
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So yeah, guys, this brings us to the end of the video. that I was a big help, don't forget to give this video a big thumbs up, leave a comment down below
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