Last updated on March 6th, 2025 at 03:48 am
Did you know that you can do some really cool stuff inside of ClickFunnels with a blank canvas?
I want to show you this, even though a lot of you guys know how to use the editor, because this will give you a really clear picture of what is possible.
One of my really cool friends, his name is Jim Bunch, had a ClickFunnels account and didn’t really get it. Then, I showed him one thing and he just got it.
That’s why I wanted to show you this right now.
The first thing that you’ll want to do is add a new funnel. The screen you go to do this is shown above. As you can see, I’m just going to create an ‘Optin Lead Capture Funnel’.
Master the ClickFunnels Editor
It doesn’t really matter which one you choose; you just need to get to the editor.
The next step is going to be to choose a template from the list shown below. A blank canvas template is going to be added to this list soon. For now, you can choose any template and make it a blank canvas template.
These templates are all really cool, and about 42 more of them are about to be released.
People always ask me what template I used, and the truth is that I don’t use them anymore because now that I know how to use ClickFunnels so well, I just always start off with a blank canvas.
Hopefully, this lesson will open your mind to exactly what’s possible inside of ClickFunnels.
The first thing I did was go through and delete everything until I had a blank canvas. I even went into the background settings so that I could change the color to pure white so that I started out with a completely clean slate.
This is how I start all of my projects. If you do this, you’ll understand how the basic editor works, and it will change how you use this as a tool.
All web pages are usually broken up into different sections. The page shown is one that I built inside of ClickFunnels for a new Funnel Hacking event that’s coming up soon.
Don’t go here yet because the page isn’t live. Anyway, up at the top, you can see that there is a white section, and then there is a colored section, and a blue section, and a black section.
Add Sections to Your Page
Next, there’s another white section, and if you were to scroll down the page more, you would find a gray section and yet another white section.
If you think about it, anytime you are building a website, it’s going to be divided into different sections like this.
So, the first thing you are going to do is click on the ‘+ New Section’ button’. When you do, this a section will be added as in the picture below.
Now, you can see that this section ends over on each side. I typically like my sections to go all the way to the end. If you want that, you just click on the little gear symbol on the upper-right. You’ll find the ‘Width’ options listed within this menu, and if you click on it, you will find the option to make It ‘Full Page’.
Click on that and your section will now be the width of your page.
Now, let’s say that you wanted the section to be black. Again, you would click on the little gear, click on ‘BG Color’, and then use the color pallet to choose the color black. To create another section, you can click on the ‘+’ symbol, and again.
Customize Everything Using Editor
Then, you could make this section extend out to ‘full page’ as well. This time, instead of having a background color, you’ll want to have a background image.
You’ll find the ‘BG Image’ options right underneath the ‘BG Color’ options in the settings.
After clicking the ‘+’ button within the settings in order to browse and choose your background image, you’ll want to change the width of it by selecting ‘Fill 100% Width’ as well. You’ll find this option within the ‘BG Image’ section of the settings too.
There are also sliders within the settings that you can use to adjust the area of your picture to make it look better.
These are the ‘Padding’ and ‘Margin’ sliders. Then, you might add another section underneath this by clicking on the ‘+’ symbol again.
The result of me following this very same process is shown above. I start all of my web pages by building out sections in this way.
At this point, you might fill the third section in with another color. I changed the third section to sort of a rose red.
Over on the side menu to the right, you can click on the ‘Sections’ menu, and when it opens up, you will find all of your sections listed.
This is shown below, and it’s really cool because you can move these up and down in a drag and drop fashion to change the order very easily, if you want to.
Also, you can click the little eyeball symbol in order to make the section disappear and reappear.
Within each section is a row. To work with your rows just click on the ‘+ New Row’ button within the section you are working with. This will bring up a page of different options, shown below. As you can see, you can add:
Various Types of Column Layouts
- 1 Column Block
- 2 Column Block
- 3 Column Block
- 4 Column Block
- 5 Column Block
- 6 Column Block
- Left Sidebar Column
- Right Sidebar Column
As you can probably tell, you can pretty much do anything you want. You may remember that the page for the Funnel Hacking event had two columns up in the top section. The first column contained the ‘Funnel Hacking’ logo, and the second column contained several different page links, or buttons.
I did the same for this case study example simply by clicking on the ‘2 Column Block’ option. After I did this, I felt like this section had too much ‘Padding’. So, I clicked on the gear symbol again in order to bring up the settings menu. Then, I just brought the “Top’ padding slider down to zero.
You can create as many rows as you want to. You can drag and drop to reposition them too. This is a new feature that will be covered within this training soon. Inside of the rows, you can add elements. For example, the logo that I added on the Funnel Hacking page was an element that I added to a row in the top section.
You can click on the ‘+ add new element’ button on the portion of the page that you would like to add that new element too, and this works pretty much the same way as it does to add a new row. This time, however, you’ll be brought to the page shown below.
As you can see, this page offers a ton of different options. I wanted to add a logo to the page that I was in the process of designing, so I clicked on ‘Single Image’ and browsed for the file I needed. For the element on the right side, I chose ‘Navigation’. When you choose this, you’ll be brought back to your template.
If you click on the element now, your navigation options will appear, and you’ll be able to change the link color and name all the different links you want to add.
As you probably already know, there are a lot of different elements that you could add to your pages using ClickFunnels. These include:
Add a Variety of Elements
- Headline/Text
- Single Image
- Text Block
- Divider/Seperator
- Button
- Input Form
- Shipping Address Form
- Video
- And much more!
Above you’ll find the page that I ended up creating in just a few minutes, starting with a totally blank canvas. Like I said, I hardly ever use the templates anymore. I just start with a blank canvas, and I create sections, and inside these sections are rows, columns, and elements.
Over on the right, you have options for working with your sections, rows, and so forth in a drag and drop manner.
If you understand these basic concepts, then you have a good idea of how the editor works.
That’s why I felt it was important to share all of this with you; that’s really the key to building anything that you want in ClickFunnels.