Weebly User Guide

Weebly User Guide

Start a Weebly

1. Go to

2. Sign up a user account.

3. Name your website and

choose a type of site and

category using the dropdown

menu.

4. Use the subdomain

option of and name

your website.

5. You will get this page (shows below) which shows the main area you will spend most time working on.

Adding content in your webpage

Folder

Tool bar

Function Tab

Web Builder

To add content to the webpage, drag and

drop website builders to the ¡°main editing

area¡±.

Note website builders are categorized in

¡°Basic¡±, ¡°Multimedia¡±, ¡°Revenue¡±, and

¡°More¡± folders. Some web builders need

to be highlighted:

Under the ¡°Elements¡± tab:

Contact Form: This is for building up

an author contact page

Custom HTML: Copy HTML code to

the editing area to show the content.

This is used for embedding videos,

audios, calendars, tables, etc.

Main Editing Area

Flash: This can be used to embed

Smart Board files.

Formatting your webpage

Use the website builders under the tab of ¡°Design¡± (shows at the top of the screen) to format your web pages.

To change the theme of the website, use the templates in ¡°Favorites¡± folder. To view templates in categories, click

on ¡°All Themes¡± in the left column.

To format font, size, and color of the title/paragraph/content text, click on ¡°Design Options¡± in the left column.

Create and manage web page

Click on the ¡°Pages¡± tab at the top of your screen.

Click on ¡°Add Page¡± button in the left corner to create a new web page. Name the newly added page by typing the

name to the text box on the right. Check the box if you want to hide the page in navigation menu, set up a password

for the web page, or link the page to external site.

Drag pages up/down to reorder and left/right to create subpages.

Add multiple editors

Under the ¡°Editors¡± tab (shows at the top of the screen), type

in the email address of the person you want to add as an

editor.

Manage site settings

Change the website settings by clicking on the ¡°Settings¡± tab

at the top of the screen.

Insert a table in Weebly

Weebly doesn¡¯t allow users to create tables directly in it. You can use Microsoft Word to create a table first, then

embed the table into your Weebly site. Note that you cannot edit your table in Weebly. Every time you want to make

some changes, you need to do it in Word and embed the table again.

Here are the specific steps:

1. Open your Microsoft Word and insert a table.

2. Go to File->Save As->Choose ¡°Single File Web Page (*.mht; *mhtml)¡± to save your table.

3. Open the Word document you just created (notice it is saved as a webpage file). You will see it opens in your

web browser.

4. Select the table in your

webpage. Then go to View>Source in Internet

Explorer (Tools->Web

Developer->Page Source

in Firefox). You will see a

text file with html code

opens.

Text file window

5. In the text file window, go to

Edit->Select All, then press

Ctrl+C in your keyboard to

copy all the code.

6. Go to your Weebly webpage,

drag the ¡°Custom HTML¡±

website builder into your

webpage. Then paste (press

Ctrl+V on your keyboard) the

code into the editing area.

7. Click on any place outside of

the editing area, you should be

able to see the table you just

created.

Create a calendar in Weebly

Since the calendar function is not available in Weebly, you can create your calendar first in Google Calendar and then

embed the calendar into your Weebly website.

Google Calendar is easy and also free. You can manage your calendar in Google and changes will automatically show

up in your site created by Weebly.

To get started, you need to have a Google account.

Log into your Google account, and then go to Google calendar (you will find it if you click on "more" on top of the

window).

You will see a new calendar ready

for you when you open up Google

calendar.

To add events, click on the date of

the event, and you will see the

picture on the left.

Enter your event description

into the blank box, then click

"Create event". You can edit

detailed information of your

event by clicking into "Edit

event". You can choose a

color you like for your

calendar, so you events will

show up as this color on the

calendar.

After you have everything set up on your calendar, you can

add the calendar to your site with the following steps.

In the ¡°My calendars¡± list on the left, point your mouse to

the calendar you want to add to the website (there might

be more than one calendars), then click on the down-arrow

that shows on the right. Choose "Calendar settings".

Go to the "Share this calendar" tab, and

check the "make this calendar public" box.

Don't forget to save your changes.

Go to the "Calendar details"

tab and see the "Embed this

calendar" section.

Copy the code. You will use this

code to embed the calendar into

your site.

Now go back to Weebly.

Drag the "Custom HTML" website

builder

and drop it to the

editing area.

Past the calendar embed code to the

editing area (where shows ¡°click here

to edit¡±).

Click outside of the editing area to see

your calendar.

Publish your website by clicking on the

¡°publish¡± button on the right upper

corner of the screen to save the

calendar.

Something you may want to know about Weebly:

Weebly allows users to create up to two websites for free under each user account.

Weebly does NOT allow users to edit multiple websites at the same time.

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