Hello and Welcome to Designrr,

I'm super excited that you have found your way here. In this 4 step mini tutorial I am going to show exactly what you need to do to create your very first ebook. And the best part, if you follow what I show you, it will take you less than 2 minutes to create your ebook.

Let's get started.

1 - IMPORT YOUR CONTENT

The first thing you need to do is import your content into Designrr. Your content should be finished and formatted correctly.

Designrr is a tool for laying out the design quickly and easily. You should have your content ready, spell checked and in a clean format, or from a blog URL that's been published.

Steps for importing content:

1. Creating a New eBook

From the Designrr dashboard, click "New eBook" or choose the import option that matches your content source

2. Select the import option.

Next, choose in which format the ebook should be published. There are several options, and you can always change it before publishing, or you can decide later. I'll go with PDF. Now, you can select Import from Blogpost or URL as your baseline.

Note: In this case I am selecting 'Import from Blog Post': ChatGPT Ebook vs Designrr: Which One Should You Actually Use in 2026? - Designrr

3. Enter the URL of your article and click on 'Add'.

Once the article has been imported you will see this: now you can choose if you want to import more blog posts or URLs.

Otherwise, click on the 'Next' button.

Next, select a theme for the topic of your ebook. I want this book to be about 'digital marketing'.

If you don't find a theme for your ebook in the topics list, click on the 'Let's Start' button. You can select any template and simply change the cover image for other more fitting from our image database to make it match the theme of your ebook.

Finally, click on the 'Let's Start' button.

4. The Docs Editor

All imports in Designrr are saved in the 'Docs'. After you click on the 'Let's Start' button in the previous step, you are redirected to this section where you can see the imported content.

This is the preferred text editor to use after the content has been imported to Designrr.

We strongly suggest that you spend some time in this section reading the imported content, fixing spelling and grammar errors, or if you plan to add or modify some of the content.

This is also a good time to check your headings, as these, have to be H2 for the chapters and H3 for the sub-chapters. These values are need for the table of contents.

Don't forget to save the changes often.

Optional: Enhance Your Content with AI

Before moving on to the template selection step, you have the option to improve and expand your content using Designrr's AI-powered enhancement tools.

The Enhance with AI feature can help you:

Expand short sections
Improve readability and flow
Add more detail to existing content
Rewrite selected text

This step is completely optional. If your content is already finished, simply proceed to the next step and choose your template.

If you would like to learn more about using AI enhancements, see:

How to Create an eBook with the New AI-Enhanced Editor in Designrr

Important: We strongly recommend reviewing and finalizing your content before choosing a template. Making major content changes after selecting a template can affect the layout and may require additional adjustments.

After you have completely finished editing the content for your ebook is time to generate the project by clicking on the 'Choose a book format' blue button.

For this example, select 'eBook'.

5. You will be prompted to choose a template.

There are two types of templates: Dynamic or PRO and Regular or Standard

For this project we are going to use a regular template. Select your page size and choose a template.

Don't get hung up on templates. Your choice of template here is NOT critical. You can change it afterwards quickly and easily, however only the Regular templates can be changed, the dynamic templates, once selected, cannot be changed.

For your first project I recommend the 'Plain Vanilla' template.

Once you click on the template thumbnail you will be able to preview the template. This is mainly to see the colors and fonts - keep in mind that at this point there is no content imported therefore the template is still empty.

Click on 'Use this Template'.

6. Review Your eBook

Once Designrr has generated your project, you'll be taken to the Review screen. This gives you the opportunity to preview your eBook and make sure everything looks the way you expect.

Take a few moments to:

Review the cover page.
Check that the text formatting looks correct.
Browse through the page thumbnails on the right-hand side.
Confirm that headings, images, and page breaks appear as intended.

If everything looks good...

Click the Publish button to export your eBook in your preferred format, such as PDF.

If you'd like to make design changes...

Click Edit Design to open the editor, where you can further customize your eBook.

Inside the editor, you can:

Change the cover image or title design.
Add, remove, or replace images.
Edit text directly on the pages.
Adjust colors, fonts, and layouts.
Rearrange or customize individual page elements.

2 - CHANGE COVER IMAGE

All of our templates come with professionally designed covers. You are free to use those; however, you may also want to add your own cover or simply swap out the image.

This is what my cover looks like now:

I want to add an image, clean up the text. I will do the text first.

Steps for changing the cover image:

Click on the image icon in the toolbar to open the 'Media Manager'.

The 'Media Manager' will open in the left sidebar. You will see pre-populated images based on the project tags that you previously selected.

If you want to add images from your computer, click on 'My Images' and click on 'Upload an image'.

All the images you upload will be accessible in this area. You can create folders to organize them. Move them from one folder to another. And here is also where you access the image editor.

You also have a 'Search' option where you can search thousands of images in any niche.

You can filter the results by image orientation.

For our tutorial — let's use the search term 'Artificial Intelligence'.

Then click on the image you would like to use.

3. Clean up and edit. While I think the cover looks fine, I do want to change the text color.

Here you can see the final result of my cover.

3 - HEADERS AND FOOTERS

Let's change up the headers and footers.

Change the background color:

Click anywhere in the colored area of the header or footer (in our case it is white but will vary depending on the template you chose). This 'activates' the respective container. Make note of the word 'activates' as we use it regularly in our tutorials. All it means is to turn on the ability to make changes to that container. You will know that it is activated when you see a border around it.

2. Click on 'Background' in the sidebar. Here you will see the option to change the color.

IMPORTANT: If you want all the headers or footers changed globally with one click, make sure the 'Make Changes to All Elements' is selected - is selected by default.

Do the same for any container where you want to make global changes to.