How to create a free website with weebly
| Weebly is one of the few places where you can get a no-strings attached website for free. Most other free websites come with a catch, such as having people skim your databases, embedding adverts in your website, poor server performance, or a further purchase system where you end up paying for your website after a year or two. At the current time there is no such catch with Weebly, but who knows if that is going to change? With Weebly, you can choose the paid option or you can choose to have your website as a sub domain of Weebly. Just like with Blogger, you can have your website under a sub domain, but it makes it much harder to rank up through the Google search engine results pages. It means you have to work a lot harder before Google will bother to index your content, but your website is free, so you take the rough with the smooth. | |
Sign up for weebly
Go to the homepage and sign up. Enter your full name (first and last), your email address and whatever password you decide to use. Pick a password that is longer than eight characters (letters and numbers).
read your welcome email
You can click the auto login too. Instead of having to go back and sign in, you can sign in automatically with the Auto Login button.
Pick the focus for your site
Click on site to create a standard website. It is the easiest version of a site to move up the Google search engine results, but you have to fill it with something useful in order to do it. A blog is not so easy to rank up the Google search engine results, but it is easier to gain new and repeat traffic. With a blog, you tend to get a surge of traffic after your post each article, plus they are the most social media friendly too. A store website is used for selling things and is the hardest of all the three to rank up the search engine results, but you do get to make money directly from it.
Choose a theme
There are a lot of themes to choose from and there are lots of styles and colours. Spend a lot of time picking your theme. You can change it if you wish, but getting the right one the first time will save you a lot of future aggravation.
Choose your website domain
You now have three options. The first option makes your website a sub domain of Weebly.com. Enter the domain you want to use and that is how you get your free website. You can register a new domain name, which gives you your own domain name. That option makes it easier to rank up the Google search engine results, but you will have to pay to register a new domain name. Connect a domain name you already own is for a domain you own that doesn’t currently have a website attached to it.
For the first two options, you will see a tick or a cross appear on the right. They indicate if the domain you have chosen has already been taken.
For the first two options, you will see a tick or a cross appear on the right. They indicate if the domain you have chosen has already been taken.
Editing your site
You can now edit your site. A lot of the editable text has been filled in. This is filler text just to show you where you can enter text and images. The tools on the left are widgets that you can pick up and drag onto your website.
Add images over existing ones
You can put your own images in place of the current filler images. Click the Edit image button and add an image from your computer. You can drag the image over, or find it on your computer and upload.
Once you have added your static image, you can turn it into a carousel image. Click the slideshow button to do that. Once you select it for a slideshow, click the “save slide” button at the top right. It is a green button on the top right that should have replaced the orange save button. As you add your images, you will see the slideshow bar display the images that will show in the carousel slideshow.
Once you have added all the images you want to include, you should save your slideshow. You can save it to your current page, or add it to all the pages on your website. You can save it to selected pages if you wish.
Adding text to your website
Click and hold on the text widget on the left. Drag it to the place where you would like to have text. The widget will open up and allow you to write your text. There is also a widget for adding images with text too.
Adding and embedding social media
Click in the social media area shown on the image. This will bring up a drop-down list of social media networks. Enter your profile URLs to embed them into your Weebly website.
Add even more social media networks by clicking the “Add more” button. Google+ is missing from the list, and it is a good idea to add in your Google+ profile too.
Adding more pages
Click the pages link. It is at the top of the web page. It runs along the top along with build, design, and such. Click on it, and you will see the pages you already have. Click on the Add Page button to add another page. Give the page a name and pick its style and click on the save button near the bottom left of the web page. You can now go into the page you just created and start editing it.
publish your new weebly website
Just click the publish button at the top right of the page. You will see the domain options you saw at the beginning, but if you are happy with what you see, you can click to continue. It publishes your website and you have a new website online.
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