Weebly.com is a free way to create and publish websites. These pages are easy to create with many different types of media to integrate. The creators offered an easy drag and drop layout, with multiple pre-designed backgrounds ready to go. The greatest feature of Weebly, it’s free. The host the you site for you at no cost, or you can publish your created site to your own domain name as well.
The features are endless with Weebly; unlimited blogging, no advertisements, multiple pages, and password protection. These features just scratch the surface of what you can do with Weebly. The ability to add a plethora of multimedia elements with a easy drag and drop makes these sites attractive. Weebly also works with some of the Google tools like checkout, AdSense, and Analytics.
After reading reviews about Weebly, I decided to give it a try. I’ve tried a few other free website builders and I wanted to see if was really as easy as they said. Creating the website was pretty easy, you don’t need to know much about building a website or the programming that goes with it. To start you have to create an account with basic information like your email then pick a user name and password.
It was as simple as picking a background from over 70 templates and picking what I want on the page. They offer a range of elements like basic text boxes, text with images, photo files, and documents files. The fun happens when you can add the advanced elements like multimedia photo galleries, Flickr photo slideshow, YouTube videos, Google maps, and even games. You can add more pages with a click by choosing the “Pages” tab at the top of the page, click new page, then what you want the page to be. The more advanced user can add items with embedding HTML code.
Weebly has gone a step further and has started an education side to their creation at http://education.weebly.com/. “Weebly’s new features are for the teachers and staff who want to get content online quickly and have their classes join them in a safe environment” (Dawson, 2009).
Resources
Dawson, C. (2009). Weebly launches education services. Retrieved October 8, 2009 from http://education.zdnet.com/?p=3145
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Enjoyed your site Jaime, but especially this tutorial on Weebly. Free and user easy is a big plus and my students could use it with limited preliminary explanation. I've often used YouTube to explain something quickly and simply, where as Lynda I've used for the more complicated tools (Like the Adobe Suite). Thanks-Patti Duresky
ReplyDeleteDid you create the graphic at the top? Great post!
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