Workshop Objectives:
- Goal 1: Introduction to Website Creation
- Goal 2: Use a free website generator to create websites. There are a variety to choose from.
- Goal 3: Weebly is one such free website generator. With Weebly, creating websites is as easy as drag and drop. Create a free account and practice building your own website.
Goal 1: Introduction to website creation. Do the computer coding or have the coding done for you.
In this digital age, having your own website is becoming more and more common. You might want or need a website for a variety of reasons. They can be useful for businesses, classrooms, personal blogs, portfolios, and many other creative uses.
In this digital age, having your own website is becoming more and more common. You might want or need a website for a variety of reasons. They can be useful for businesses, classrooms, personal blogs, portfolios, and many other creative uses.
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Learn to code
You can learn to computer code and code a website with html or something similar. If you want to learn to code there are millions of websites that can teach you or your students. Below is a list of sites that can be used to practice and learn computer coding in fun ways. Most are targeted for students grades 3rd-12th, but many are useful for anyone wanting to understand computer programming.
Or you can make life easier and use a website generator that does the coding for you. |
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Goal 2: Use a free website generator to create websites. There are a variety to choose from.
There are a variety of free websites that can be used to generate websites. This way you don't have to worry about the computer coding! All you need to do is choose how you want things to look. Below is a list of a few free options.
There are a variety of free websites that can be used to generate websites. This way you don't have to worry about the computer coding! All you need to do is choose how you want things to look. Below is a list of a few free options.
- Blogger - Create your own blog - free.
- Google Sites: Build internal project hubs, team sites, public-facing websites, and more—all without designer, programmer, or IT help.With the new Google Sites, building websites is easy. Just drag content where you need it. Create a one-stop destination for all important information, including videos, images, calendars, presentations, documents, folders, and text. Then, quickly and securely share it with an entire organization or the world.
- Strikingly - Strikingly wants to help you make your impression online. They give you access to free tools to create a beautiful website for you or your business in minutes. You're not required to know any coding or have any design skills. Strikingly helps make your websites simple and easy to use and quick to build promising a beautiful website in under 30 minutes.
- WIX - At Wix, we believe everyone deserves to have their own stunning website with no coding or special design skills needed. Better yet, it should be free! Since 2006, our founders Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami and Giora Kaplan have brought this vision to life for over 25 million Wix users with a dedicated team of professionals based in Tel Aviv, New York, San Francisco, and Dnepropetrovsk. With 30,000 new users joining every day, Wix is growing quickly. We offer the only drag n' drop website building platform with HTML5 capabilities, 100s of designer made templates, top grade hosting, innovative Apps and tons of features for free.
Learn how to use WIX from their wonderful support page! - Weebly - Weebly is a web-hosting service featuring a drag-and-drop website builder. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. You can create an account and have up to 10 free websites that Weebly will host.
- WordPress - WordPress.com lets you create beautiful and powerful websites or blogs, and it's free. There are premium plans, too, that give you even more control and customization options (and they all come as free trials, so you can try them out before you buy). They'll set up and configure your custom domain so that you can start using it in seconds. WordPress.com is optimized for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and getting your site in front of searchers on Google, Bing, Yahoo, and others.
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Goal 3: Weebly - Weebly is one such free website generator. With Weebly, creating websites is as easy as drag and drop. Create a free account and practice building your own website.
One site, in particular, that is really easy to use and that we'd like to go into a little more detail on is weebly.com 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 extremely user friendly. Creating a website exactly how you dreamed is as easy as a simple drag and drop. You can insert headings, text, images, page breaks, videos, contact forms, and more. Customize it the way you want. It is your website! Here are some examples of websites created with Weebly:
Learn how to use Weebly on their great support page! or watch the video tutorials provided below. |
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For more tutorials visit the Weebly Youtube Channel.