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hello vipers let's talk about how you

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can use canva to build email templates

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now there are some limitations because

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canva is effectively an image Builder

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and it doesn't build

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HTML templates so there are some serious

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limitations there but if it's a if it's

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a platform that you are familiar with

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then it can likely do the job that

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you're looking for

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um and so we'll talk about some of those

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in a minute but first of all let's just

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jump into actually building a uh a canva

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template so what you'll want to do of

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course build what you're going to use in

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canva I just found this this free

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example that they have in there and then

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I downloaded each of these Pages as

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individual images because we're going to

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be stacking these on top of each other

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and that is basically the punch line is

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it's building blocks with images and you

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just stack stuff on top of one another

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and heading back to vivecloud in the

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email templates I'm going to go here to

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create a new one

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and I'm going to use the drag and drop

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HTML Builder

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yeah

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now in most cases you're probably going

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to be just using full width structures

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and that means we can go ahead and just

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delete these other placeholder ones

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because it's just going to be two full

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width images

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and I'm going to click on that just to

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load this up quickly I've already

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uploaded my images so there's the first

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one

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and then for the second one we're just

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gonna

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grab that structure drop it there

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choose an image

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and there we go so we're well on our way

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so far

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now it's important to note that

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technologically speaking an image can

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either be a link or it can not be a link

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and if it is a link the entire image is

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a link and so on and so forth so in

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other words this is one of the

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stations of using canva is that I can't

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make this into a button right here I can

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make the entire image into a link so

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that when people will click on this

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it'll take them to where you want them

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to go but the same is true if they click

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literally anywhere else so you can only

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have one single length in an image or

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none at all

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um a work around here

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is to start to crop an image into

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smaller pieces and put those building

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blocks together in different ways where

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you could theoretically let's say there

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were two

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buttons side by side right here we could

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crop this image down here so that you

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can then separate off two other images

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that fit together

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into a you know into different images

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and therefore you can click or tap on on

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the different images to go to different

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lengths

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and of course the links I'll go right

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here so

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so you can

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link your image in that way and then

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also you're going to want to remove some

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of this padding that's going to likely

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be in your um

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inner template as default so what I did

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was I just clicked on the structure

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itself we've got padding right there I'm

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just going to turn that off right there

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again click on the structure here turn

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that padding off and now what we have is

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a you know these two images stacked up

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on top of each other to make a single

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template one other limitation to be

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aware of is that

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text is hard coded into images so you

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can't merge custom information for your

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for your recipients of course what you

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could do is put text blocks in and

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around the image blocks that you've

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built in canva and then of course that

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text will work like it will in any other

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email template that you use

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but these are some of the basic

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fundamentals of using canva templates

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and of course reach out if you have

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further questions