Weebly Assignment

Okay class, this is your first assignment of the 2013-2014 school year. It should be fairly easy and should not tax you too much on your first week. This assignment will set up a good portion of the rest of the year, so please take the time and effort to make it right.

Goals

The goal of the assignment is to create a unique and personal website as a foundation for assignment work and blogging. This will be used as the structure where all your written assignments, images and blogs will remain. I will be marking off your site for much of your work, so DO NOT FORGET to publish your site before the deadline and DOUBLE CHECK that it worked correctly (this means actually going to your website and making sure everything is complete).

Assignment

You will have to create your own Weebly site, select a theme and do some editing on the site. The parts that I will be marking are:

  • Title of site
  • Theme of site selected
  • Header (top of page) image is changed from template to something personal that applies to that section (there will be 4 sections so far, see below). An example would be an image about blogs used as the header for the Blog section/page of your new Weebly site.
  • Intro description on your home page about what you hope to learn from IT Class (this needs to be a minimum of a paragraph, something like 5-6 sentences but more is better)
  • Sections labeled HOME, ASSIGNMENTS, ABOUT ME, VIDEOS, BLOGS, MORE
  • Email me your website address (

Email me your website address to so I can rss feed your blogs and make a bookmark folder for your sites.

This is due by end of class on Friday August 29th. This is your first project grade and I expect everyone should be able to get very high grades on it. Make sure I get the link to your site, because if I can’t see your page I can’t mark your page.

Troubleshooting

Some things that may cause issues but are easy to fix may be:

  • You already have a Weebly site. You can have 2 full websites under a single Weebly account. You can modify one you already have or you can delete an old one you do not use. I do expect a single website specifically for the IT class, so make sure you have this organized.
  • Header images get cut off. You need to look at the size of the header image that is in the template and plan to have an image that is that size. You can find pictures that fit that or crop any picture you want. It is easy to find when you click on the edit image.
  • Header images get deleted. If you change the template after you choose header images they will be deleted. You will have to re-upload the header images once you decide on a template you like (I would recommend picking the template first and adding images later).
  • Blogs do not have everything you typed. Once you finish writing a blog make sure to click off the area where you type. This will ensure everything will be published. MAKE SURE TO CLICK PUBLISH so I can see changes