Piocess of Beveloping a Website on Weebly

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INTR0B0CTI0N:

The uevelopment of a website has become a commonplace
piocess in touay's high tech society that is constantly online. With the
ongoing activity of Inteinet useis, uevelopeis have cieateu many ieauily
available tools to allow aveiage people the ability to make a website.
Websites aie incieuibly useful way of being able to tianspoit laige
amount of infoimation foim one usei to anothei. It's a poital by which
otheis can communicate, woik, collaboiate, uevelop, leain anu connect
in ways that weien't possible without meeting face-to-face just a uecaue
ago.

Now, let's get going on the piocess I followeu to be able to uevelop this
website.

Step I: Reseaich

Theie aie many platfoims fiom which can builu a website. This
was a fun but at times uifficult task to see which of the website
uevelopeis softwaie woiks best foi youi neeus. The S sites that I
ieseaicheu weie uoogle Sites, WoiuPiess anu Weebly. (I also uabbleu
with iWeb anu Bieamweavei but naiioweu it uown aftei tiying to
uownloau the softwaie without much success.)

In oiuei to pick the final website cieatoi, I hau to go into each one
anu expeiiment. All of them aie faiily comfoitable to navigate but as fai
as cuib appeal I hau to go with Weebly. The finisheu look anu cieating
softwaie aie easy to figuie out with little tiaining oi extia homewoik.
0nce the ieseaich was uone anu ueciueu on the cieatoi to use it was
time to stait customizing it to my neeus,

Step II: Customization of Website

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This is wheie the iubbei hits the ioau! You can't uo much without
cieating a Weebly account so that the fiist thing to uo. Then it asks to
choose a template foi youi website.
Foi one who likes vaiiety, they uiun't uisappoint. Since this is
going to be a website foi my 6
th
giaue classioom, I wanteu something
that lookeu piofessional, that was usei-fiienuly, anu that was useful foi
paients, stuuents, anu teacheis to use. A website that wasn't going to
boie people since many eyes will see it multiple times thioughout the
yeai so it's got to be malleable.

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Pages allow you to outline the main aieas wheie biowseis will be
going. So I cieateu pages foi the following aieas: about, contact, math,
language aits, social stuuies, science, piint mateiials, giaphics, anu
multimeuia. When this is uone than you can have some fun with it anu
peisonalize them foi that "Wow" factoi we'ie all looking foi.
Fiom youi woikstation when euiting youi page you have a
plethoia of tools at youi uisposal like changing the coloi, size, anu type
of youi font you want as well as incluuing an image oi two to spiuce it
up. You can uploau a photo that's on youi computei oi uiag-anu-uiop so
it's a cinch.
You also have the ability to euit the size of photo anu ciop if
necessaiy. Bon't foiget to "Publish" when you've finisheu foi the uay so
that eveiyone can see how awesome it looks!

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The stiuctuie icons aie a nice featuie to this website. You can
cieate uiviueis, columns, buttons, oi seaich bais foi any one of youi
pages. You can also put in maps, contact infoimation foims, oi pictuies
galleiies accoiuing to piefeience anu ielevance. You can also put
YouTube, music oi othei meuia options on youi website. 0nce again,
aftei uoing anything you want to make suie push the oiange "Publish"
button at the top.

REvIEW:
It uoesn't take much time anu effoit to leain the tiicks of the tiaue
of cieating a website on Weebly. They uo make it an enjoyable anu
painless piocess. I have founu it easy to fix mistakes oi move things
aiounu without totaling messing up the foimat of eveiything on youi
page. The smooth tiansition of moving one column oi paiagiaph in
uiffeient sequences is seamless. Auuing auuitional infoimation to the sit
is effoitless. Nattei of fact, while typing this papei I ueciueu to auu on a
map anu contact foim box within a mattei of seconus.
Now you anu otheis have a way of taking school home without it
being buiuensome. The sky is the limit on the amount of infoimation
you want to put on theie at the uiiections you can go. You also have site
stats in the top iight hanu siue of youi scieen to see how many people
aie loving it as much as you. Bave fun anu enjoy the iiue!