Making a Weebly Website
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Web Content

Web Design

  • 1990’s Web Design 
  • Make any website look like 1990’s 
  • 10 Principles of Effective Web Design  
  • User Experience Design 
  • Why Aesthetics Matter to Learning 
What are some differences between the two webpages below? What are some elements on each page that you particularly like or don't like?
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Website Topics

Some ideas for how to use websites for yourself or as a project with students
  • Website with a page for each class you teach
  • 5 great things to do in NYC (what, where, when, who, how)
  • What you did last summer (a place you went, where you stayed, how your traveled)
  • A book you would recommend (background info, the author, your review, movie trailer)
  • All about a hobby 
  • A class cookbook

Planning Web Content

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  • Organizing website content (Information Architecture) https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/starting-out-organized-website-content-planning-the-right-way/
  • Creating a Website Outline and Site Diagram (video)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umqojkqaTc
  • Map out the content (aim for 3-5 pages for today).  Think about what kind of theme would work best? Where should the tabs go?
  • Make a folder for your website to save images and content
  • Find and download images to go with your content and put them in a folder labeled Images
  • Find websites and videos you’d like to link to and save links in a document labeled Links
  • Write content in Notepad or Word and save it


Finding Public Domain Images

  • Take your own photos
  • 5 Good Places for Students to Find Public Domain Images
  • Flickr Creative Commons 
  • Advanced Google Image Search
  • Pixabay
  • Image Source (Royalty Free)
  • Getty Images (Royalty Free)
  • Creative Commons
Why Use Creative Commons

This website was developed by Nell Eckersley at the Literacy Assistance Center for use in workshops on creating classroom websites for Adult Education programs.
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  • Tech Integration
  • Web Content
  • Workshops
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
  • Resources
    • Adding a PDF to Your Website
    • Adding Audio