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WeeblyCreate a webpage from scratch

Chris Van PeltTechnology Support SpecialistYorktown Community Schools

@YTCoachVP

Peyton Byrum7th Grade Student

Yorktown Middle School

Austin Hill7th Grade Student

Yorktown Middle School

What is Weebly? Do-it-yourself website builder

Allows you to create a professional website from a template or build from scratch

Uses widgets to drag and drop features to your website making it simple, yet professional.

Best part, basic use is free!

What it can be used for Class webpage

Use if you do not have a LMS

Post announcements and pictures

Class Projects Have student create webpages to support

papers written or subjects

Information or Event pages Create a webpage for an event you are hosting!

We created our WeLearn Webpage using Weebly!

Now, How to! Navigate to http://www.weebly.com and sign

up for an account

Registration Fill out the following on the first page:

Choose a Focus Either way does not matter, you receive

same features (I usually choose site)

Theme

Filter Themes at the top

Select A Theme Once you have found a theme select

Give your website a name

Now its time to Infrastructure

Blue = Big changes to website

Design, Pages, Store, Settings

Tools, Widgets And More

To add a YouTube Video: Go to the video you would like

Copy the URL at the top of the page

In Weebly Drag over the YouTube Icon

Click on video

Paste your link into the YouTube Video URL

Embed Twitter Feed I Login to twitter.com

At the top of the page, click the

Navigate to the settings page

On left hand side, click Widgets

Embed Twitter Feed II At the top, Click

Fill out the table for your twitter account

Embed Twitter Feed III

Once you click create, a code will be generated for your page. Right click and click copy

Embed Twitter Feed IV

On Weebly, Drag over the icon

Click on table then click

Copy and paste code into box

Feed Reader Allows to embed RSS feeds

Really Simple Syndication

Syncs up to websites and updates automatically

http://yes.yorktown.k12.in.us

Student Created Pages Three of our 6th grade students created

webpages for their “Digital Portfolio” of their 6th grade year Peyton Byrum:

http://peytondigitalportfollio.weebly.com

Austin Hill: http://austinhill42.weebly.com

Parker Stinson: http://parkerstinson25.weebly.com