Finally, the untrained, but often dreamt about desire to be a Graphic Designer is being unleashed.
Thanks to Canva, I’m getting a chance to put my creative side to the test without any actual former training. I’m in no way paid to big up Canva. I came across it when it was mentioned in a job interview, so I thought I’d brush up my skills on it. It’s only been a few weeks now, but I’m finding it super intuitive and quite ‘easy’ to produce stuff. Whether it’s good stuff time will tell, but the options are vast.
Below, in literally 5 minutes, I’ve produced a quite professional looking (in my humble opinion!) cover for Facebook. It uses one of my own photos taken in a wild meadow this Summer…which caused a bit of a hayfever reaction, so lesson learnt there. And another lesson hard learnt is not to take your 6 year old on a bike through a meadow as the wheels get stuck. We live and learn…
But this got me thinking about using Canva as a web tool. Turns out many others are ahead of me and have already had this thought too. From a brief bit of research I’ve found you can use Canva within WordPress to build your website. Here’s a link that explains the basics http://using Canva in WordPress. I think this will be my next port of call to have a try. I’m loving the functionality I’ve discovered so far. My only concern is that it’ll be something that costs and I’m on a strictly zero cost budget. As with everything, some of the better options in Canva are in the pro (pay subscription) option.
So I’ll get cracking with step 1 and see if I can find the Canva plug in. And yet again, I’m stuck. I navigated to Plugins, I searched for new ones. I looked for “WordPress Canva Plugin“, but did I find the Plugin? Nope. Looks like more research is needed on this one than my 20 minutes before school pick-up allows.