This document provides an overview of the Weebly website building tool and how to use it. It discusses why Weebly is a good option for educators, how to get started building a website, choosing a theme, adding pages and elements, publishing the site, and managing students. Key features of Weebly highlighted are the drag and drop interface, free accounts, multimedia integration, and secure environment for student sites.

1. Introduction To Weebly
Every Educator’s Favorite Website Design Tool
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2. Why Weebly
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• Drag and Drop
• Free Account
• Multimedia Features
• Blogging Options
• No Adds
• Beautiful Themes
• Managed, Protected Environment for Students
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3. Getting Started
New to Weebly? Start here!
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• Visit education.weebly.com
• Fill out the form
• Fill out the information screen (note: you can skip this step)
• Choose to watch a demo video,
• Set up your class or just start creating!
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4. Getting Started
Already have a Weebly account, but want to convert it to Education?
Log in with your existing account at education.weebly.com. You will be directed to
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convert your account to Education.
Once converted, you will have a new menu to add and manage your students!
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5. Choose a Theme
A bit of advice – spend no more than 3 minutes choosing a theme. You can always
change it later. It even tells you that right up front. Note: some themes will allow
you to choose different color schemes.
1. Select the theme you want, and click on the “Choose” button
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2. Choose a website domain
3. Choose to Plan or Build your site
Plan – Weebly walks you through the process
Build – You simply start creating
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Choose to use a Subdomain of
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pay for your own domain.

6. Adding Pages to Your Site
• Adding pages to your website, adds depth. You can add a:
• Standard Page – typical web page
• Blog Page – posting chronologically, this layout lets your audience interact through
Name your page
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comments if you wish
• External Link – no page is created, but you link to another website
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Click to add pages
Pages are
shown in
order that
they appear
in the
navigation
bar on your
site
Drag pages to
reorder
them. Drag
pages to the
right, to
create sub-menus.
You can hide the page from
navigation or even password
protect a page.

7. Adding Pages to Your Site
Tall Header:
This layout is the default for each new page. It includes a section at the top of the page where a
large header image can be uploaded.
Short Header:
This layout includes a header area at the top of the page as well. But as implied by the name,
this header is smaller than the default "Large Header" layout.
No Header:
You can probably see where this is going now. Where the Large and Small Header layouts each
have an area to upload a header image, this layout does not include any such area.
Landing Page:
The Landing Page layout includes space for a header image, a title, a subtitle message and an
action button that can be linked to any other page of your site. The Landing Page is a good
choice for a home page layout.
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Copy Page allows you to create
multiple pages with the same
elements.

8. Adding Elements to Your Site
The beauty of Weebly comes in the “Drag & Drop” method of adding content. Content is broken
into several categories:
• Basic – elements that let you add content to your site like text, images, titles
• Structure – elements that dictate how your site will look like columns and divider lines
• Media – adding enhancements like sound, video and embedded files.
Note: If you see an element with a star in the upper
left corner, this means this element is only available
in the Pro version of Weebly
Simply drag the desired element to a blank location in your page.
When you let go the element will stay, and will be ready for you to
add information.
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9. Adding Elements to Your Site
The anatomy of an element…each element has:
• Move/Copy option. This allows you to easily copy or move an element to another page
• Move handle. This allows you to drag your element to another location on the same page
• Delete. This removes the element completely. Be careful, there is no undo
• Most elements have:
• Option bubble. This appears once you have drug your element onto your page
• Formatting toolbar. This will appear when you have an element with text
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Move/Copy Handle Delete
Text element with text
formatting toolbar
Column element with option bubble to add
or remove columns

10. Adding Elements to Your Site
uploading images
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11. Adding Elements to Your Site
uploading images
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12. Publish Your Web Site
As you build your site, it automatically saves. When you close the web browser window, all of
your changes are saved.
When you are ready to show your website to the world, click the Publish button. This will update
your public site.
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Click on the URL to see your
website as your audience
would view it.
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Logging Back into Weebly
Once you leave your site, when you log back in, you are placed into the Dashboard. Here you can
manage your students, add more websites, make changes to your Weebly account or work with
your existing web site.

13. Managing Your Students
Create your class name and decide if your student websites will be private or public.
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Add your students and create
their usernames and passwords
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Class settings let you change
student accounts from public to
private, moderate student blog
comments, or delete a class.
Add additional classes to
classify student groups.

14. Managing Your Students
As you build your site, it automatically saves. When you close the web browser window, all of
your changes are saved.
When you are ready to show your website to the world, click the Publish button. This will update
your public site.
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Click on the URL to see your
website as your audience
would view it.
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Logging Back into Weebly
Once you leave your site, when you log back in, you are placed into the Dashboard. Here you can
manage your students, add more websites, make changes to your Weebly account or work with
your existing web site.