Creating a Web Page with Adobe Express

On this page

1. Why Adobe Express?
2. Getting Started
3. Finishing it Up
4. Attributions and Citations
5. Limitations of Express
6. Bonus: Creating a Menu

Why Adobe Express?

Adobe Express, and in this case, Adobe Web Page, makes creating a professional website quick and easy. As an educational tool it has the added benefit of a "present" mode. So you can create a great looking presentation that also serves as a take away tool for your audience to refer back to later.

• Quickly add beautiful stock photos without searching externally
• Not worry about layout, colour schemes and designs, it's all done for you
• Quickly pick a simple theme

Note: Adobe Express was previously known as Adobe Spark and Adobe Creative Cloud Express. Most mechanics and tools have remained the same, but the title of the program has changed. This page has been updated to reflect the new name but the videos still refer to the previous Adobe Spark.

Attributions and Citations

When adding images found directly in Express, attributions are automatically added in a little i icon at the bottom of the image when editing, and then the footer of the page when it's published. To edit these photo credits, you must click "Share" along the top, then "Publish and Share Link" and there you will have an option to adjust your photo credits as needed. Keep in mind the only details you will have on these images are the details provided, so completing a full APA citation will be difficult.

You can use this credits section to add in any additional citations, but they will not be formatted correctly as you cannot indent or add italics. A section at the end titled References or Work Cited at the end may be best, and then you can format your citations, or a link to an external word document which lists all your citations in proper format.

Limitations of Express

• Can only embed YouTube, Spark Videos and Vimeo, no other content
• Videos must be from YouTube, Spark or Vimeo
• Limited customization to layout and moving elements around.
• Limited customization of colours and fonts. TIP: If you want to create your own theme to use, go back to the Express home page and create a brand using the colours, fonts and elements you want your site to have.
• It only creates a single long scrolling page, there are no menus and sub-pages.
• No ability to easily move content once it's added, it needs to be removed and then re-added where you want it.
• Can be difficult to add small images for instructional content such as screenshots (See this entire page, wouldn't it be helpful to have small screenshots!)

Bonus Content

Creating a Menu

While you can only make a single long page, you can add some level of navigation to your page, especially if it's something long with sections, like a resume or a presentation.

1. Create your page with all the content and use the H1 and H2 headings where appropriate.
2. Share and publish your page.
3. Open your new almost completed page.
4. Hover over the sections you want to link to, a link icon will appear. You can now copy the link and link to a specific section on your page.
5. Return to editing your page and create a new menu section near the top of your page. Layout your menu as you like using either regular text, or a list such as this one. See the menu above for an example.
6. Add your sections name and then link to that section.