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Introduction To WeeblyEvery Educator’s Favorite Website Design Tool
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Why Weebly
• Drag and Drop
• Free Account
• Multimedia Features
• Blogging Options
• No Adds
• Beautiful Themes
• Managed, Protected Environment for
Students
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Getting StartedNew to Weebly? Start here!
• Visit education.weebly.com
• Fill out the form
• Fill out the information screen (note: you can skip this step)
• Choose to watch a demo video,
• Set up your class or just start creating!
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Getting StartedAlready have a Weebly account, but want to convert it to Education?
Log in with your existing account at education.weebly.com. You will be directed to
convert your account to Education.
Once converted, you will have a new menu to add and manage your students!
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Choose a ThemeA bit of advice – spend no more than 3 minutes choosing a theme. You can always change it later. It even tells you that right up front. Note: some themes will allow you to choose different color schemes.
1. Select the theme you want, and click on the “Choose” button
2. Choose a website domain
3. Choose to Plan or Build your site
Plan – Weebly walks you through the processBuild – You simply start creating
Choose to use a Subdomain of Weebly, unless you want to pay for your own domain.
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Adding Pages to Your Site• Adding pages to your website, adds depth. You can add a:• Standard Page – typical web page• Blog Page – posting chronologically, this layout lets your audience interact through
comments if you wish• External Link – no page is created, but you link to another website
Click to add pages
Pages are shown in order that they appear in the navigation bar on your site
Drag pages to reorder them. Drag pages to the right, to create sub-menus.
You can hide the page from navigation or even password protect a page.
Name your page
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Adding Pages to Your Site
Tall Header: This layout is the default for each new page. It includes a section at the top of the page where a large header image can be uploaded.
Short Header:This layout includes a header area at the top of the page as well. But as implied by the name, this header is smaller than the default "Large Header" layout.
No Header: You can probably see where this is going now. Where the Large and Small Header layouts each have an area to upload a header image, this layout does not include any such area.
Landing Page:The Landing Page layout includes space for a header image, a title, a subtitle message and an action button that can be linked to any other page of your site. The Landing Page is a good choice for a home page layout.
Copy Page allows you to create multiple pages with the same elements.
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Adding Elements to Your SiteThe beauty of Weebly comes in the “Drag & Drop” method of adding content. Content is broken into several categories:• Basic – elements that let you add content to your site like text, images, titles• Structure – elements that dictate how your site will look like columns and divider lines• Media – adding enhancements like sound, video and embedded files.
Note: If you see an element with a star in the upper left corner, this means this element is only available in the Pro version of Weebly
Simply drag the desired element to a blank location in your page. When you let go the element will stay, and will be ready for you to add information.
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Adding Elements to Your Site
The anatomy of an element…each element has:• Move/Copy option. This allows you to easily copy or move an element to another page• Move handle. This allows you to drag your element to another location on the same page• Delete. This removes the element completely. Be careful, there is no undo
• Most elements have:• Option bubble. This appears once you have drug your element onto your page• Formatting toolbar. This will appear when you have an element with text
Move/Copy Handle Delete
Text element with text formatting toolbar
Column element with option bubble to add or remove columns
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Adding Elements to Your Siteuploading images
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Adding Elements to Your Siteuploading images
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Publish Your Web SiteAs you build your site, it automatically saves. When you close the web browser window, all of your changes are saved. When you are ready to show your website to the world, click the Publish button. This will update your public site.
Logging Back into WeeblyOnce you leave your site, when you log back in, you are placed into the Dashboard. Here you can manage your students, add more websites, make changes to your Weebly account or work with your existing web site.
Click on the URL to see your website as your audience would view it.
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Managing Your StudentsCreate your class name and decide if your student websites will be private or public.
Add your students and create their usernames and passwords
Class settings let you change student accounts from public to private, moderate student blog comments, or delete a class.
Add additional classes to classify student groups.
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Managing Your StudentsAs you build your site, it automatically saves. When you close the web browser window, all of your changes are saved. When you are ready to show your website to the world, click the Publish button. This will update your public site.
Logging Back into WeeblyOnce you leave your site, when you log back in, you are placed into the Dashboard. Here you can manage your students, add more websites, make changes to your Weebly account or work with your existing web site.
Click on the URL to see your website as your audience would view it.