1. Creating a website Lead by: Christie Sukhdeo and Gabriel Fiorinni

2. Where to start? www.weebly.com  This is the service we are using to host our site www.weebly.com

3. Sign up for an account by filling in the required information (Name, email, password)

4. Creating the name of your site

5. Enter the title of your site and choose the type of site

6. Enter the “address” of your site (choose the 1 st option because it is FREE!)

7. Success! You now have a site, but now you must personalize the site

8. To choose a layout or template for your site, click on “Design”

9. Select a template from the options given at the top

10. Adding a page: click “Pages” at the top

11. Then click “add page”, choose “standard page”, then name your page (ex: Research), finally click “Save Settings”

12. What kinds of pages should you have? Graduate Student  Research Interests  CV/Resume  Contact Information  Field work experience  Publications  News Feed Professor/Researcher Research Interests CV/Resume Contact Information Field work / photos Publications News Feed Student Mentees Research Opportunities

13. Adding a Header (scroll mouse over header to get “image option”

14. Customizing a page and adding text – Drag an icon from the top and drop it on the page DROP ICON HERE ON PAGE

15. Creating a link – highlight the item and then click the chain link

16. Enter the URL of the website to create the link

17. To add a slideshow, photo gallery, or upload a file to your page, click “Multimedia” and then drag the icon to the page

18. Once you have an account, you can log-out and log back in to edit your site To log-in, click “Log In” at the upper right hand corner of the page

19. Publishing your website

20. Acknowledgements  National Science Foundation (NSF)  Dr. Nicola Anthony  Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku (USTM)

21. Christie Sukhdeo University of New Orleans Dept. of Biological Sciences csukhdeo@uno.edu christie.sukhdeo@gmail.com Gabriel Fiorinni University of New Orleans Dept. of Biological Sciences gfiorini@uno.edu QUESTIONS?