Starting your web design using Illustrator templates

Okay. In this tutorial we're gonna look at  how to start from templates. You might be really new to design in general. Okay? You might be a student, you might be young, you might be old  and have never done it before. Whatever reason, you might be a little bit more daunted  by the whole design process.

What is it gonna look like? Okay. Um, it's good to start with a template  and there are lots of templates around. Um, some of the easiest ones are built into  the new version of Illustrator. Okay? We're at 2017 at the moment.

Um, so if we go to new, okay,  or file new, there's a, this little new document window,  if you go to web, okay? You'll see that underneath here  there's a bunch of templates. Can you see if I scroll down? There are all sorts of things. Okay? Uh, that is a landing page, one  that is some presentation graphics, okay?

Some social media icons. There's all sorts of different ones, but in terms  of a webpage design, you can see there's even wire frames. Look at that. Okay? Um, but page designs, you might start  with one of these and just start switching. They're here to be used, they're used commercially.

You might decide, I'm gonna start with this one here  'cause it kind of matches what I wanna do. You double click it and you start going through  and playing with the colors, the fonts. Uh, it downloads it eventually  and you change it with your images. Say you're not selling an app,  you're selling, I dunno, cookies. You could switch it with your image here. And that's a good way to kind of, I don't know, get started  and just kinda has the bits you, you know,  you might not have thought about.

Okay? So you might just use this homepage  and bin all the rest of these. Okay? So there's a great way. There's  a few other templates in there. Another cool place you can go to is under this one here,  under your creative cloud license.

Okay? Your creative cloud app. There's one assets, okay? And there's one in here called Market. Okay? If you click on market and, um, in here the search option,  you might say, uh, web ui.

Okay? And in here is a bunch of pre-made stuff  that are allowed to be used commercially. So you can kind of start with these. It's a great way to kind of look pro really fast. Okay? So there's a lot of app stuff in here  and a lot of web stuff as well.

Okay? Some of them are really big, some  of them are just small components,  but this line seems to go on forever, okay? And to use them, say you do like this  web UI thing here, like the look  and feel of this for your site, okay? You can click on this and say download  to often people will just download it to their library. Okay? It's called my Library.

What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna click on this  and download it to one that I've made called, um,  you can see here, create library. I've created this one called Dan's Portfolio. What will happen is hopefully you can kind  of see it happening over here under window libraries. There it is, there. It's downloading this  guy that I could start using. Okay?

It takes a little while to download with the nets  and then drag it on. You can see here that is, uh, um, yeah, a UI  that you could start using and changing  and adding to your design. Change your fonts, use your colors, okay? It's a good way to get started from a template. All right? Uh, that's it for starting from templates.

We're gonna make our own one and it's gonna be awesome.