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Websites and Weblogs with Weebly. Presented by Dainty Angeles 8:00 – 11:00 a.m. Workshop Agenda. • Overview of Weebly • Create your own website • Create your blog • Image Perfect • Useful tools for your site • Questions and reflection time. What is Weebly? .
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Websites and Weblogswith Weebly Presented by Dainty Angeles 8:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Workshop Agenda • Overview of Weebly• Create your own website • Create your blog• Image Perfect • Useful tools for your site• Questions and reflection time
What is Weebly? • Free (Open Source) web content creator • Simple but powerful Drag and Drop interface • Free hosting with no restrictions • 70+ Professional Design Templates • Powerful Blogging features • No Ads • One of Time’s 50 Best Websites in Year 2007 • Edit pages using your web browser • Fast and easiest way to create a website
Weebly Benefits: • Edits and changes are seen immediately • Post class information/resources • Post and accept homework assignments online • Import files, videos and pictures • Create links to other websites • Create digital student portfolios • Create and manage up to 40 student accounts • Basic website is FREE – Pro Account is less than $50/yr With Pro Account you can: • have 10 websites within one account • Upload files more than 5 MB • Remove Weebly footer
Sample Weebly Sites • http://msdainty.weebly.com • http://cnapolitano.weebly.com/ • http://nhdexample1.weebly.com/index.html
Create a Free Website in Minutes! • Step 1: Go to http://education.weebly.com/ or www.weebly.com and sign up. You will be asked to create a username, password, and provide an e-mail address
Getting Started Click Create a Website Click on skip this step
Choose Your Web Address Create a site, name it, and assign a URL (Example: yourwebsite.weebly.com) Registering a Domain
Step 2: Create a Site Click on create a site, enter a title for your website and choose the type of site.
Weebly Editor Dashboard *Elements *Design *Pages *Settings
Let the Creation Begin! • Step 3: Start creating- choose a design (you can change this later and alter the pictures)
Let the Creation Begin! • Step 4: Create your page: Drag and drop the element of your choice to your page.
Step 5: Adding Pages Click on the Pages tab New Page – static pages (contain information that don’t change frequently) Blog Page – interactive (allows comments on posted content) information in chronological order
Create a Blog • Create a Blog by clicking on “Pages” • Click on “New Blog” • Post information, discussion questions, or assignments • You can monitor blog responses before they are displayed online • Blog responses are sent to your e-mail
Publish Your Site • Step 6: Publish your website-click on the orange publish button and save the link, this is the site students will see You can make changes at any time and re-publish your site and instantly see the changes applied to the site
Add images from your hard drive, Flickr, or a website • Resize, crop, rotate and align the images • Add effects like changing opacity, adding a fade, or adding burnt or polaroid borders • Add multiple lines of text, position them anywhere, and choose from a wide selection of fonts • Add text effects like gradients, patterns, and a shadow or glow • Change the background to be a solid color, gradient or pattern • Set different header images for different pages
Weebly Support & Info • Weebly Demo • Weebly Demo 2 • Weebly Help • About Weebly • Weebly Article • View my Weebly Education Website: • http://msdainty.weebly.com • View this presentation on my blog: • http://msdainty.weebly.com/blog.html
Additional Tools (Widgets) • http://www.revolvermaps.com/ http://www.website-hit-counters.com/