Designer uses “The Knot” to design a wedding website - demo & deep dive
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- Since locking in our wedding venue, one of the very first things I did for wedding planning was to create our wedding website! And as a designer, I was very excited about this and felt a little bit (okay, maybe a lot a bit) particular about how our wedding website should be designed
I tried all the sites and found it to be an interesting experience. Ultimately, we landed on one to go with, but since I did all research, I figured I would share exactly how I would design a wedding website on all these various platforms.
Today, I’ve published the first video in a series of videos showing you the behind the scenes for how I would design a wedding website - starting with The Knot!
Have you recently created a wedding website? How did it go? Are you about to? What’s your thought process? Lmk what you think here in the comments.
Watch how I would design a website with…
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Demo website (filled with hashtag fake content):
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Our amazing wedding photographer, Laur Fernandez:
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Our dog, Koda's Instagram: / kods_ontheroads
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CHAPTERS 📚
0:00 Introduction
1:10 Brief lesson on typography
2:33 Thoughts on color
3:07 Thought process for how I wanted to design this website
4:42 Example of final designed website on The Knot
5:28 Demo & deep dive designing a website on The Knot
26:17 Wrap up
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Name: Alexa
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I've been binge watching your videos for my wedding! Thank you so much for your work!
awe yay!! you're so welcome :)
Wow, super easy! I love that it does all the technical stuff for you, so you don't have to know html or css or anything like that
LOVE this Alexa! This series is gonna be so helpful and fun 👏🏻
Yayyy thanks Maddy! 💙
Thanks so much for making this instructional video! It was easy to follow and understand! 😊
Yay! so glad to hear it :)
This really helped me amp up my website. I was so unhappy and worried for everyone to see it before I fixed it up some. Thankyou!
Oh yay! So happy to hear it ✨ You're welcome!
Really wish you had included the registry
This was super helpful!
So glad to hear!
I can’t get the large date on one side with location on the other side of the line. My location is so small I’m afraid it won’t be noticeable
what are the dimensions of the cover photo?
Thanks a lot
Thank you for this video! I am re-working my wedding website and I'm glad I found this video!
I noticed I don't have the photo gallery option on the other tabs. I am only able to use it on the Our Story page.
Yay so glad to hear!! As far as technical questions, I'm not too sure, I haven't made a website on their platform since making this video 😣
@@HelloImAlexa Thank you for your response! For anyone wondering, I just added another page and was able to do so.
THANK YOU! I legit found your channel today off of your other wedding website video. Did you end up going with The Knot or Joy? Or did you make your own site? I am trying to figure out what I want to do! :) -November '23 bride!
omg yayyyy!! So glad to hear it. I did end up going with Joy and I LOVE it. I'll be doing a deep dive into Joy within the next few weeks. I plan to also demo designing one on my own, but ultimately decided not to because I didn't want to have to pay for a subscription with Squarespace/Wix.
What are you leaning on choosing right now?!
Good luck with wedding planning!! 💍✨
Hi! How did you get the wedding party to be in pairs of two beside each other? I'm using the same theme but it only has one person at a time down the page.
ohh wow, I just went to the demo site and they are now in a single line: www.theknot.com/us/alexa-doe-and-mike-doe-jan-2023/wedding-party
I wonder if The Knot changed the template or changed it for all of their sites. I'd recommend reaching out to their customer support team and asking about it. Wishing you the best!
Hi Alexa. Thank you for the video. I am having a hard time uploading a picture in portrait. The crop option are not available. Can you help??
Glad you enjoyed the video! I'm not too sure about your question since I'm not really an expert user of The Knot. What I'd recommend maybe is to make the photo portrait on your phone and upload it that way. Otherwise, I'd say The Knot customer support is your best best. Good luck!
Great video. Does anyone know if you can change the text color of the font?
Thank you! And sorry I'm not sure as it's been a while since I made this video.
hi i need help in changing the short names like S &A but it came &A . Can you help me to edit .
thanks
Hi there! Ahh, sorry that sounds frustrating. I'm not sure how to fix that so I recommend reaching out the The Knot's customer support team. Good luck!
Thanks, interesting. I was looking for more than the obvious, for example, how to upload the list for RSVP
Ahh gotcha, well hope you still enjoyed the vid! I didn't use that feature - sorry 😣
Hi Alexa, I am in the midst of using The Knot to send out emails for guests to RSVP. We added our own email address in order to test it prior to sending them out, however, we have not been able to receive a single test. Do you have a tutorial to show us how to send out these RSVP's?
Sorry I don't work at The Knot and only used their product to share for this video! Hope you can figure it out with their customer support team
Hi Alexa, I used the knot for my wedding, and now I am helping my daughter create hers. We have a question, most of her guests speak Spanish, can we change/edit the titles of the Reservation steps to Spanish?
Hi there! Sorry I have no idea… I'd recommend reaching out to The Knot customer support to see if they can help
Hi! I’m having a problem with not being amble to see “our story” section where all the other sections can be seen.
On the homepage it isn’t visible😢
Sorry I don't work at The Knot and only used their product to share for this video! Hope you can figure it out with their customer support team
Have you found a way to change the color of the text?
Sorry I don't work at The Knot and only used their product to share for this video! Hope you can figure it out with their customer support team
The intro: If your watching this just like me "you're getting married"
Me: Watching this video to help my brother and his girlfriend to create their own website hahaha :(
hahah ahhh, well at least SOMEONE you know is 😅
Is that all for free?
Everything that I showed in the demo is free to use, yes!