For the rest of this year, you will be learning how to create your own website. You'll also do other projects in computer class and post them to your website. So let's get started!
How the Internet Works Video
Let's start by watching a video about what happens when you try and access a website. In this video, you can replace "someone in England" with someone at "Grymes Memorial School". So imagine you're accessing the World Science Festival website. It's not perfect, but you'll get the idea.
Overview of Today's Lesson
So when you want to access a website, you have to put a web address in. Every website has a unique web address, just like a house address. The address is also called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or domain name. Here are some that you might recognize: www.google.com, www.amazon.com, grymeslab.weebly.com, | Every website is made up of text, images, video, audio, and hyperlinks. Each website has look and feel - where the drop down menus are, how the header looks, where the logo is located, etc. Today we are going to use Weebly to start building our own website. You will learn how to:
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Getting Started Video Tutorials
This video shows you how to access Weebly, login, start a new website, pick a design, change the header, and give it a web address: | Here are two other ways to add images to your header (I left them off the original video): |
Here's a video tutorial on how to Publish and Log Off. NOTE: According to Weebly support, if you do not click on the hyperlink to your website after publishing, additional changes to your website may automatically get published as you make them (even before you "publish" again).