creating a website lead by: christie sukhdeo and gabriel fiorinni

Creating a websiteLead by:

Christie Sukhdeo and Gabriel Fiorinni

Where to start?• www.weebly.com This is the service we are

using to host our site

Sign up for an account by filling in the required information (Name, email, password)

Creating the name of your site

Enter the title of your site and choose the type of site

Enter the “address” of your site (choose the 1st option because it is FREE!)

Success! You now have a site, but now you must personalize the site

To choose a layout or template for your site, click on “Design”

Select a template from the options given at the top

Adding a page: click “Pages” at the top

Then click “add page”, choose “standard page”, then name your page (ex: Research), finally click “Save Settings”

What kinds of pages should you have?

Graduate Student Research Interests CV/Resume Contact Information Field work

experience Publications News Feed

Professor/Researcher Research Interests CV/Resume Contact Information Field work / photos Publications News Feed Student Mentees Research

Opportunities

Adding a Header (scroll mouse over header to get “image option”

Customizing a page and adding text – Drag an icon from the top and drop it on the page

DROP ICON HERE ON PAGE

Creating a link – highlight the item and then click the chain link

Enter the URL of the website to create the link

To add a slideshow, photo gallery, or upload a file to your page, click “Multimedia” and then drag the icon to the page

Once you have an account, you can log-out and log back in to edit your site• To log-in, click “Log In” at the upper right hand

corner of the page

Publishing your website

Acknowledgements National Science Foundation (NSF) Dr. Nicola Anthony Université des Sciences et Techniques

de Masuku (USTM)

Christie SukhdeoUniversity of New

OrleansDept. of Biological

Sciences

csukhdeo@uno.educhristie.sukhdeo@gmail.com

Gabriel FiorinniUniversity of New

OrleansDept. of Biological

Sciencesgfiorini@uno.edu

QUESTIONS?