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Weebly Guide~ Create your Own Website for Free!
Follow these steps to get started:
Visit: https://www.weebly.com/#signup
Enter your name, email (use school email), make a
password you’ll remember, click “create your site”
Choose “not now” to creating a store online
On future visits just click “log in”
Pick a theme: scroll down and choose the “Explore 14k
theme” (the colors & layout can be changed later)
Click “start editing” at the top right
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Select a domain name. Use you & your partners (if applicable) first names and the civilization
name (Example: joeinca).
Make sure it
appears as
available under
“Free with
Weebly
branded”
section. If it’s
not available,
modify the
name! Click
“Choose”
You will receive a message that you have successfully
setup your subdomain name. It will provide you the link
to your website once you publish it.
Your website has been created! Now start making it your own…
Click at the top left on “High Peak” and change the name of your page. Use your name(s) and
the civilization you chose. Example: Joe Smith Inca
Go through and delete all objects from the page before editing anything! Click the Red X on top
right of each box to delete objects. You may have to do this on each page of your site.
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At the top choose “Pages” (2nd tab over)
Click on each page and rename to the following:
Home- Location
Services- Food & Farming
About- Government & Daily Life
News- Delete this page, click the + to add a new
“standard” page
Contact- Religion
New Page- What Happened?
Now start designing each page:
Start by choosing the page you want to edit from the tabs at the top & select “Build”
Before adding items to your page change the colors/background:
To change your theme and background colors scroll to bottom of section and choose
“Replace Header Layout”
o Click “Delete” in the replace layout box
o Background should change to white
o Click at the bottom of the section again
and choose “Edit Background”
o Click on the color you’d like
o You can change the color of the
bottom section of the site as well; you can also add text/images here
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All of your tools are on the left hand side- Title, Images, Text, etc.
Drag over “Title”- Type in the name of your civilization and your names
Drag over “Image”- find an image (map) on Google images or one of your research
sites/databases
o Save the image to your account or desktop (right click-
save picture as) On your website choose add image and
“upload from computer”, find image and open it to add
to your site
Add “Text”- this is where you type the information/research
you found
When completely finished with your website select “Publish” on top right side
Click the link to visit your page. Print the page for a record of your web address. Provide your
teacher with a copy as well.
Helpful tips:
Change the color of the font by highlighting it and selecting A on the black bar
When adding text or titles you can change the size by clicking the + sign or – sign
Click the red x to delete boxes you added by mistake (on the right corner of the box)
This is your web address!