Step 1: Choose a Theme

Your theme will give you a general color scheme and fonts, but you can always change these later!

Step 2: Change the Header

You have a few different options for your header background:

Use one of Google's by going to Select Image-- Gallery
Upload your own photo from Google Images
Create a header using Canva.com

Using Layouts

Step 3: Decide on Layout

Google has pre-designed layouts that you can drag and drop. You could also design as you go by adding textboxes, images, and dividers. Before you start laying out think about the following:

What order will you put the elements in?
How will you section off each part? Will there be a divider line? Will you add text boxes? Etc.

Step 4: Organize Your Page(s)

Easiest: Use Dividers to break up your content. Just Insert--Divider

Easy: Use text boxes to create section headers. Pro tip: Google Image search the specific colors you want to use. Ex. "Teal"

Medium: Create buttons to make subpages. After making all your pages, go to Insert--Button and then link each button to the corresponding page. Your button color will depend on your Theme.

Advanced: Make your own buttons in Canva! Search for "button." Edit the button's color, font, graphics. Save and then upload the picture of the button as an image. Click on the button image and link it.

Step 5: Adding Content

Insert--Text Box

Once in the box, you can change the font, size, color, and links.

Insert Collapsible Text

This text is good to use if you have a list:

You could use this to list websites
Or titles of other books
Or characters

Just go to Insert-- Collapsible Group

Adding Images and Videos

Add images by going to Insert--Images. Then Upload your pictures.

Add a video by going to Insert and then scroll down to YouTube. Copy and paste the link of the video you want to embed.

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