Customise key aspects of your site

To open up the customizer, select from the top bar or Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer. The customizer provides a key route to modifying many of the website fundamentals, e.g.:

• Switch template
• Change colour scheme (template dependent)
• Change fonts and font styles (template dependent)
• Modify menus (you can do this also from the Dashboard > Appearance > Menus)
• Modify Widgets (these are the marginalia like the sidebar and footer, if supported)
• Adjust the front page settings
• Add custom styles (for advanced users mainly)

Some templates will open up a raft of other options, sometimes a little bewildering so choose a simple template or stay with this one Twenty Twenty One if is your first time.

This template is supported by a special plugin which gives you access to several templates without coding, with plenty of guidance.

The customizer’s main feature is the ability to preview the changes on screen before you commit to them.

Moreover you can save a draft of your changes, share that draft with colleagues, or abandon the changes altogether later if they are not approved.

You can also schedule a change to go live at a later time or date.

KEEP IT SIMPLE

It should not take you months and weeks to create your first website, but it is recommended that you set aside a day or so. With practice you can create and populate a simple website in just a few hours →