1. Foundations of America History Fair Project
Introduction to Website Construction

2. Weebly.com
Why Weebly
Free
Required for NHD

3. Getting Started Logging In Creating a Site Username—topic
Password—remember it
—First Class
Creating a Site
“Create a Site”
Title for Site—project title
Domain for Site—projecttitle.weebly.com

4. Weebly Basics
Editing tools
Editing Window

5. Play Around. Experiment.
Editing Tools
Elements:
Different Things you put on a page
Design:
Overall Look
Pages:
Adding Pages
Settings:
Site Title
Play Around. Experiment.

6. Website Expectations 6 Main Pages Feedback Blog Thesis Page Before
Topic
After
Process Paper
Annotated Bibliography
Feedback Blog

7. Thesis Page Like an Introduction
Student Name(s)—Last Initial only, NO last name(s)
Thesis Statement

8. Before, Topic, After Pages
Like Body Paragraphs
Each page should have topic sentence at top of page
Before—what things were like before your topic
Topic—what is your topic; what happened
After—how things were different after your topic

9. Process Paper & Annotated Bibliography Pages
Guess what goes on these pages
Just the Documents, No bells & whistles
Use scribd.com to show documents
Also have downloadable versions

10. Feedback Blog
How I give you feedback
“Hide” for the History Fair

11. Navigation 3 Ways to Navigate/Experience Navigation Menu
Linearly— “Back to”, “Thesis” and “Next to”
At Bottom of Each Page
Hyperlinked to Previous page & Next page
Actual links should name pages going to
Hyperlinks in text
Hyperlink key words from thesis statement to respective pages

12. DOs Bulleted Text Use quotes (cite them)
Include Relevant & Appropriate Multimedia
Pictures
Video Clips (45 seconds max)
Audio Clips (45 seconds max)

13. DON’Ts Long Blocks of Text Be Razzly-Dazzly Clutter
Compromise substance for show

14. Excellent Weebly History Fair Websites
Last Year’s FoA History Fair Websites