Weebly Create a webpage from scratch Chris Van Pelt Technology Support Specialist Yorktown Community Schools Peyton Byrum 7 th Grade Student Yorktown Middle School Austin Hill 7 th Grade Student Yorktown Middle School

What is Weebly?  Do-it-yourself website builder  Allows you to create a professional website from a template or build from scratch  Uses widgets to drag and drop features to your website making it simple, yet professional.  Best part, basic use is free!

What it can be used for  Class webpage  Use if you do not have a LMS  Post announcements and pictures  Class Projects  Have student create webpages to support papers written or subjects  Information or Event pages  Create a webpage for an event you are hosting!  We created our WeLearn Webpage using Weebly!

Now, How to!  Navigate to and sign up for an accounthttp://

Registration  Fill out the following on the first page:

Choose a Focus  Either way does not matter, you receive same features (I usually choose site)

Theme Filter Themes at the top

Select A Theme  Once you have found a theme select  Give your website a name

Now its time to  Infrastructure  Blue = Big changes to website  Design, Pages, Store, Settings

Tools, Widgets And More

 To add a YouTube Video:  Go to the video you would like  Copy the URL at the top of the page

 In Weebly Drag over the YouTube Icon  Click on video  Paste your link into the YouTube Video URL

Embed Twitter Feed I  Login to twitter.com  At the top of the page, click the  Navigate to the settings page  On left hand side, click Widgets

Embed Twitter Feed II  At the top, Click  Fill out the table for your twitter account

Embed Twitter Feed III  Once you click create, a code will be generated for your page. Right click and click copy

Embed Twitter Feed IV  On Weebly, Drag over the icon  Click on table then click  Copy and paste code into box

Feed Reader  Allows to embed RSS feeds  Really Simple Syndication  Syncs up to websites and updates automatically 

Student Created Pages  Three of our 6 th grade students created webpages for their “Digital Portfolio” of their 6 th grade year  Peyton Byrum:  Austin Hill:  Parker Stinson: