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I- Weebly
Weebly gives millions of people a surprisingly easy and affordable way
to create a site that is as unique as they are. With a Weebly site, people can start
their own business, communicate with their clients, showcase their
achievements, and be an authority on personal and professional interests.
Weebly gives everyone the freedom to start a site, blog or online store
that works brilliantly across computers, phones and tablets. Offering a range of
pricing options including a free plan and premium plans starting at $4/month,
Weebly has everything you need to plan, build, publish and grow a site that
meets your goals.
Weebly is the easiest way to build your own website. The first thing you
need to do is go to http://www.weebly.com to create an account. Then you will
begin with the next steps.
II- Steps for Using weebly
a. Go to the Weebly website at http://www.weebly.com: You will see an
account creation form with three fields (Full Name, Email and Password),
as well as a few other buttons (this includes the "Log In" button
b. Sign up for a Weebly account:In each field in the short account
creation form to the left, type in your full name, email address
and password. Onceeach of these steps has been completed, click on
"Sign up. It's free!"
c. Decide on the focus of your site: You will have three options to choose
from -- website, blog, or store. Click on the button that applies.
N.B: No matter what you choose, you'll still get to use all of Weebly's
features
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d. Selecta theme:
The first step on the road to building your site is selecting a theme. There are
well over a hundred themes to choosefrom (with more added every month) and
you can look them over with a quick scroll through our Choosea Theme page.
All you have to do is to just find the theme that looks good for you and select
it. We know it can be a little overwhelming to chooseexactly which theme you
want before you've even started working on your site; Don’t worry, you can
change the theme later on, very easily.
e. Choose a title:
After you pick a theme you'll be asked to give your site a title. If you don't have
a title in mind yet, just think of a temporary title; much like the theme, the title
can be easily changed later on.
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f. Use a Subdomain of Weebly.com:
This is an address like yoursite.weebly.com. Completely free to use.
Since you register your subdomain you will get this page, and you will click on
build my site and you can also open the video about how to use weebly.
You can now add your first site page and add a title .
III. First Elements:
a. Adding Text to Your Site
Elements are the building blocks of a site. All of your text,
pictures, videos and other great content, aside from a few
exceptions like header images are added via elements. Let’s take
a look at some of these elements to get the hang of how they
work
Adding an element to a site is as simple as clicking on that
element and dragging it to a page. Let's drag the most basic
element -- the Text element -- to this sample site.
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The text element is exactly what it sounds like: an element for writing
text. Click inside the element to start writing.
You can write a word, a sentence, or multiple paragraphs in a single
element. As you write, take note of the gray toolbar at the top of the element.
This is the text toolbar and it allows basic changes to the formatting of your
text. It works much like any other such toolbar normally works: select the text
you want to change and click the appropriate button to make that change.
From left to right, you can bold your text, italicize it, underline it, make it
bigger, make it smaller, change the color, create a link, adjust the alignment of
all text within the element, create bulleted and numbered lists, and remove
formatting.
You may notice that one thing you cannot do is change the font family to a
different style. That particular setting is controlled elsewhere (but just as easily
changed).
To add more text to the page we could continue
writing in this same element, drag on another
paragraph element, or use one of the other text
elements:
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b. Title for adding titles / headers to a page:
Paragraphw/ Title: A paragraph element with a place for a title already built
in.
Paragraphw/ Picture: A paragraph element with a place for both a title and an
image built in.
N.B:All of these elements use the same text editing toolbar we examined above
and you can stack as many of them as needed on the page.
c. Adding more pages to our site:
Creating a new page is a
matter of going to the Pages
tab and clicking the Add Page
button.
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There is an option to Add a Standard Page or Add a Blog. For now let's focus
on creating Standard Pages.
c. Selecting the Standard Page
Selecting the Standard Page option adds a new page to your list.
Adding more pages is a matter of clicking Add Page and choosing Standard
Page again (and again).
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d. How to Switch Themes.
As we saw on the first page of this guide, the very first step in creating a site is
selecting a theme for that site. But that doesn'tmean you're stuck with theme
you selected. You can change your theme by going to the Design tab and
selecting Change Theme.
Over a hundred themes to choosefrom and many of the individual themes
include a variety of color choices that impact the look of different parts of that
theme.
Previewing it shows exactly how your own pictures and content would appear
in this new theme. If you like the theme you can chooseit, if you don'tyou can
Cancel and look through some of the other themes.
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e. Final steps:
Publish Your Site and Next Steps Now that you've added some basic
content to your site, this is a good time Publish it. To do so, just use the
Publish button in the upper right corner of the editor.
After you finish filling the Subdomain click continue:
And to publish your site online you have to fill this page:
