How to Make a Portfolio Website - Get Mural Jobs With This! - YouTube

Nobody wants to get united, like what we gotta do is meet everybody at 149th street at "The

Bench".

Are you guys ready to get commissions?!

Do you want to land mural jobs and paint the graffitis?!

Then check it out, today's video is definitely one you're going to want to follow along with

because we're going to be building our own professional artist website using Wix.com.

Huge thanks to Wix for sponsoring today's video, they literally couldn't have had better

timing because in a recent video I was telling you guys how I wanted to help you make your

passion a career.

Wix reached out and they were like "we want to help you and your viewers build yourselves

a site.

If you go-ahead to the very first link in the description it'll take you over to Wix

and you can follow along with today's tutorial on how to build your own professional artist

website.

I'll even have time-stamps in the description for you.

Once you go ahead and click the link in the description you'll be brought over to Wix.

So you go ahead and click "get started", it may prompt you to make an account in which

you may see a screen something like this, and here you're going to have a bunch of different

options.

You can choose any one of these, it really doesn't matter, because no matter what one

you choose you can still make whatever site it is you like.

So you guys will see in a second that even though I click "Portfolio and CV" later on

we'll be able to choose whatever we want.

Now, this screen right here is interesting, the option on the left will pretty much make

a site for you based on some questions they're going to have you answer.

The button on the right will allow you to manually make your own site so I'm going to

click that.

Remember how we clicked portfolio and CV?

All clicking that button before did was bring us right here.

If we had clicked business, it would have just started us off right over here.

You know what, this works out perfectly because i kinda like this right here.

You can go ahead and look through all of these different templates, but I'm going to go ahead

and choose this one right here.

Now once you got the templet loaded up that you picked, you can go ahead and watch this

little introduction video and here's your template.

Wix provides you with a lot of opportunities to customize, everything is just, point, click,

drag, and drop.

Let's say for example, I don't want these logos, I can just click and drag, to select

them all, come over here to the right and click delete.

So this whole bunch of stuff on the right in this right box is going to be anything

that's going to allow you to organize the content that you have on your actual website.

So if you want to align something, if you want to delete something, if you want to copy-paste

or duplicate, you'll be able to do that with this thing over here on the right.

These options on the left are going to be what allows you to add features.

So here on the left you have "Menus and pages", this is going to be stuff like our stuff at

the top.

Witch this is going to be where we spend most of our tutorial, this is where we want to

spend out time.

You've got this right here, "page background" witch will allow you to go ahead and swap

out this nifty car in the back or whatevers in the background of your template.

Now I just loaded in some pictures, now I want to make this my background, and as you

can see that changes right there.

In order to change this, we're just going to go over here, double click and type in

Jon Grim and I actually kinda like this so I'm just going to change this to graffiti

slash oil there ya go.

Now, this third button may look overwhelming, it's going to let you add a bunch of stuff

and they give you a LOT of stuff.

So you can add a gallery witch we'll definitely be doing, you can add a specific image, you

can add text, you can add vector art, and your store as well.

Feel free to look at this stuff if you'd like, we'll be using some of it throughout this

tutorial.

You have the "Wix app market" here on the fourth button, which is really interesting.

I'm not going to be using and for my website specifically but feel free to take a look

at this stuff because it might interest you.

Now this button here is going to allow you to upload things to Wix that you can use for

your site, but htey give you various opportunities and different ways that you can go ahead and

do this.

This is just one specific way to do it.

And here you can start a blog and here you can schedule bookings.

Now as you can see we only have the "Home" page here and as a result we only have the

Home at the top of our website as well.

You're going to want to go ahead and add in a couple of pages, we're going to need a page

not only for the "Home" but we're also going to need a page for our "Artwork"so we're going

to go add that in, and if you do murals already you can go ahead and title this "Murals".

If you go ahead and do illustrations you'll title it illustrations, you can title it various

other things but we're going to name this this "Artwork".

Another thing you can do is you can add another page and we can go ahead and say for example

"Drawings"and hit "done".

You can come here to this button and make it a subpage of "Artwork".

So now when people click on this, you'll get a little bit of a drop-down menu that'll have

drawings.

So you can have like drawings, ya know, paintings, murals, all in just one place if you'd like

to.

The next page you're going to want is the good ol "CV" and this essentially is going

to be experience and things you've done.

Next I'm going to make and "Info" page.

You can title that the "About" section, or Info, either one works.

And now we're going to make the contact page.

You can order these however you want, so I'm going to go ahead and make it , Home, Artwork,

CV, Info, Contact, I actually like the way this is.

All you have to do is drag it and put it wherever it is you'd like it to be.

So now when you click on any one of these it'll bring you to that page.

As you can see there's not anything visually changing here because the background to my

web site is that picture, but you can change that if you'd like.

What you will notice however is when I go to "Artwork" you'll no longer see "Jon Grim"

there so now you know you're on the other page.

Let's try changing that background, I think I want to add, let's say, add a white strip

to that background and plop it in there, and drag it down.

With this page you want to make sure you kinda gear it towards you want to focus on right.

If you want to do portrait, upload portraits, if you want to do murals, upload murals.

All you gotta do is come over here to the add section, go to the gallery and you have

a bunch of different options here.

You can play around with what you think looks best.

Now I want something that they don't really have to try so hard to look at everything

so for now, I'ma go plop this back in there just by dragging and dropping it.

If you click on the gallery It'll give you various settings like manage the media that

will let you swap out pictures.

Just come over here, click on it, hit manage media, hit replace image, and once again you

can come back to the images you uploaded.

So we're going to go ahead and plop this one in here and there ya go!

I'm going to hit the settings, and we can decide how we want this to kind of layout

depending on the kind of grid you chose you'll have some other options for the features of

that grid specifically but I'm going to go ahead and make this a little bit smaller,

I'm going to decrease the spacing.

Probably give me some more room, and here ya go.

Now obviously you guys are going to want to go ahead and change these pictures out.

If you can create a bond with people, and if you can give information about your process

and your concept, it's more likely to hook people into your artwork.

Although it's not necessary it certainly helps out.

As you can see we have the oil paintings with a little bit of a blurb to introduce them

kinda to my process and my concept when I go ahead and I do my artwork.

Now I saw this honeycomb design and I immediately fell in love with it so I opted to go with

this.

I may change it later but I'm not going to lie, I kinda like this.

Next up we have the CV and I have a little bit of an image just ot kinda spice up the

page a little bit.

I don't want it to look too too plain.

Also if you don't have anything under your belt, don't feel like you need a CV right

away.

You can wait to do the CV page until you get a couple things under your belt and once you

do, load up your CV with all your prior experience.

You're going to want to go ahead and break this up into the things you've done.

If you've had exhibitions of your own, you'd write"Exhibitions" and then all of your exhibitions

underneath that followed by the name of the exhibition, the month, the day and the year

you exhibited and you would do that for all of your press, all of your murals, stuff like

that.

You really wouldn't put your commissions under here, commissions are a little more on a case

by case basis.

You want to save this for more of your big events and big accomplishments.

Next up we have the info page witch this is pretty self-explanatory, it's exactly how

it sounds like.

It is information about yourself.

Some people like to write this in 3rd person, some people like to write this in first person.

Personally, I would prefer to write it in first person but I figured I would use an

example of 3rd person just for any of you guys out there.

Kind of introducing yourself.

Mention a couple of things you've accomplished, a couple of things that you've done in your

career.

Tell people your story, let people fall in love with who you are.

And here is your contact form.

So on this page, you're just going to let them know what it is they can contact you

for and you can even choose to write more than I did.

So if you want to go ahead and let them know for example what kind of murals you take and

what kind of murals you dont take you'd go ahead and specify something like that here

or if you wanted to, you could go back to your website editor and you can add an FAQ

page in order to have all that information for you.

The FAQ page's mission is to go ahead and answer people's questions preemptively.

So let's say you already take commissions and you always hear a specific kind of question,

put that question in the FAQ page and put the answer underneath it.

But other then some general information on the contact page, you're just going to have

the contact form.

Witch, once again we get by going to the add button and getting your contact form.

And once again if you wanted a store, you can go ahead and make yourself a store.

Now you may notice when we go from page to page I have a fancy little fade in that comes

on witch I quite like.

All you have to do is click the thing you want to animate, animations, and fade in.

You could choose any one of the other animations, I just really like the fade-in, and as you'll

see when we move to a different page, things will fade in because I have it on that page.

And we move back to the first page, everything fades in.

Once you're done with your site, you can come over here and click publish and that's it,

ya got your site.

I do recommend you spend some time making this site look as fresh as clean, as sleek

as possible, that way when people go ahead and they come to your site, they have that

WOW factor.

Now once your site is done all you've gotta do is send hit up the gallery or hit up the

business that you would like to do a mural forgive them the normal elevator speech, like

" Oh I would love to exhibit in your gallery because XYZ" and make sure you link them this

site.

This site is going to be your landing page, it's going to be where people become impressed

and fall in love with you so once again it's important you make this look as beautiful

as possible.

I personally, I'm in love with this portfolio site.

I know a lot of you guys want to do murals, I actually asked you guys on a different video

what your ambition was and a lot of you wanted to do murals.

So I recommend, get your first mural job as soon as possible, even if you have to do it

for free, get it as soon as possible and put it under your CV and then from there you can

start getting paid for your own murals.

Anyway ladies and gentlemen, that's the video, we have ourselves a site, we're good to go!

Huge thanks to Wix for sponsoring today's video, I really appreciate it, means the world

to us.

Once again be sure to check out the description for a link to Wix, and you can follow this

video in order to see kinda how your artist website should be laid out.

Guys, I genuinely hope you guys found some value in this video and I hope it helps you

out.

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