Creating a Website with Weebly

1. Create an account
   a. Choose a user name you will remember
   b. Choose a password you will remember
   c. Enter your email address so if you FORGET either, Weebly can contact you
   d. Accept their terms
   e. Click to start

2. Give your first website a title – you can make multiple website with one account so you may want to start with a trial site title, like My First Website
   a. Click Continue

3. Choose a design for your site

   a. Click the Designs tab at the top of the page
   b. Simply point at one of the design thumbnails and wait a second to see how your page will look
   c. NOTE: the design applies to all pages in that website – you can't “mix and match”
   d. When you come to one you like, click on it. You can always change it later.

4. Add 2 pages
   a. Click the Pages tab at the top of the page
   b. Give the page a title – for a trial site call the first one Page 1
   c. Click Save at the bottom
   d. Repeat this process to create another page – you can add a blog page with the same process
   e. NOTE: you now have 3 pages on your site – a homepage, Page 1 and Page 2

5. Edit you Home page
   a. Click on the Elements tab at the top of the page
   b. Click and drag the icon called Paragraph with title onto your home page – let go
   c. Click in the Title block and type a title for this paragraph or page
   d. Click in the Paragraph block and type a couple sentences
   e. You can highlight any text and use the text editing icons on the page to change color, size, alignment and a few other things, but you can't change fonts. Basic web fonts are used on all pages.
   f. To add typed content to another page, first click on the page name in the navigation bar

6. Add a Picture
   a. Click on Home in your nav bar
   b. Click and drag the icon called Paragraph with Picture onto your page. You may place this element above or below your text blocks and rearrange them later if you'd like.
   c. Get your picture ready. Have one on your desktop to upload easily.
   d. Click on Sample Image. Now find Upload New Image just above your work area on the left and click there.
   e. When the browsing window opens, locate the picture you want to place and choose it.
   f. Set the Border option and Position option for the picture. If you want a few more alignment options, click on Advanced to the right.
   g. If you would like to link your picture to a website, first copy the website address, then click on Set Link above the work area and paste the address in the appropriate line.

7. Publish your site
   a. Click the Publish button at the top right.
   b. Choose a site address that you'll remember. It will be added to the weebly.com address so your final web address will read something like http://koelkertest.weebly.com
   c. Click on the link to your page in the next window to see how it looks LIVE.

8. Log out and log back in to make sure your account works and to make more web stuff!