How to manual for setting up a website for your happiness initiative using weebly.com.

1. How to set up your
Happiness Initiative
website on Weebly: a
simple and easy guide
happycounts.org

2. Creating a Website
This is a guide for creating a free website
on weebly, a webhosting service. You can
use other services, such as wordpress,
but we have found that weebly is the
easiest.
Why do you need a website?

3. Why a Website
You will need a website or other means to provide
the link for your Gross National Happiness Index
unique code.
• You may have a city, company or organization webpage that you use
instead of creating a new website. Or you may use newsletters
exclusively to send out your code. This is fine. This guide is for those
who are better served with a website for their project.
• We recommend you do not provide the entire URL, as there is a
chance for user error which will prevent you from collecting all the
data for survey takers in your area. Instead, send people to your
website, send an electronic newsletter or otherwise provide a link.
• We recommend you do not refer people to the Happiness Alliance
–home of The Happiness Initiative’s website (happycounts.org) to
take the survey, as the data from your survey takers will not be
collected in a unique data for your area. This only happens
if you have a unique code.

4. What you need:
A Unique Code for the Gross National Happiness Index
Access to the internet
An email for your project
Text and images for your website
Some images are provided here and you are welcome to use others on
The Happiness Initiative website at happycounts.org as long as you give
attribution and a link to happycounts.org

5. Your unique code
If you do not already have a unique code
for the Gross National Happiness (GNH)
Index so you can collect GNH results for
your area, group, team or other
population, email info@happycounts.org.
We will send you the memorandum of
understanding and a code.
Please donate for the use of a code!

6. Why an email?
You will need this to create a weebly
profile. We recommend you create an
email for your project so you do not need
to use your personal email. This way you
can give a volunteer or staff person
access to the website by giving them the
email username and password.

7. Creating a Website
Step one: Go to weebly.com and set up your
profile with your project email and password.

8. Creating a Website
Step two: decide on your domain name. This is important: to have a
free website, you must choose the category “use a subdomain of
weebly.com” This means your website’s URL will be
nameofyourproject.weebly.com. You can buy a domain, but then it is
not free! Weebly will try to see you a domain each time you update.
This guide will show you how to keep it free.

9. Creating a Website
Step three: Choose a Theme. You can always change this. Most themes
allow you to change the homepage image. Choose the one you like.
(Factors to consider: placement of menu bars, background, placement
of homepage images, look and feel)
We chose this
theme. Choose
what you like.

10. Creating a Website
Step four: Change the backgroud picture on your home page
Edit image
here
Save the
image

11. Creating a Website
Step five: Drop in your title bar and text box, edit both
Click the title
box
Drag and then
click in to edit
Click the text
box
Drag and then
click in to edit

12. Step eight: Edit header and social media
Creating a Website
Click and
edit
Click and edit
Fill in links or
delete icons
Click Social
Media icons

13. Creating a Website
Step seven: Create link with your GNH unique code and place image in
your text box
2- Click the link
icon
1- Highlight
text
3- Place your unique
code/URL, click box
for new window
Click image
box and
replace image

14. Creating a Website
Step eight: Now to publish for the first time!
Choose “use a
subdomain…”
Click to
categorize
Validate
The next step is important to
keep your website free!

15. Creating a Website
Step nine: Now to publish. Weebly will try to sell you a domain now!
Click on this link
and ignore the
one below it. You
will see this
every time you
publish

16. Creating a Website
Now you are live. You can now add pages to your website

17. Creating a Website
Step ten: Create another page. Here we created an “About” page
Click
on
Pages

18. Creating a Website
Step ten: Create another page. Here we created an “About” page
1- Choose
standard page 3- Choose
layout
2- Name
the page
You can add
any feature
you like
5- Use scroll
bar and
features
Now hit publish again and
do the same steps as step 9
4- Click Save
and Continue

19. Creating a Website
Let’s add some resources. First click on the “Pages” again.
Click
on
Pages

20. Creating a Website
Adding resources.
3- Choose
layout
Scroll down
to media
and drag
“Document”
Drop in your
title and text
boxes
Now hit publish again and do the same steps as step 9
1- Choose
standard page
2- Name
the page
4- Click Save
and Continue
Click in,
add doc
to box
A second
box here

21. Creating a Website
You can create as many pages as you like.
Try not to clutter your menu bar.
There are many boxes/features that are
free, and some that require you pay for
the weebly service (this is different from
paying for a website)

22. Example Happiness Initiative Websites: