Step by Step guide to starting your website

1. Create a weebly account​ - this is easy, go to ​weebly.com​ first. Make sure you are
signed into your email account and use your Hamden Hall google account to sign
up/sign-in.
2. Add a site​ and start working on your website -
a. If you are starting for your first time, it will ask you if you want to create a website,
or a store. Create a website.
b. If you are returning: click on the drop-down arrow next to ‘my site’ and click ‘add
a site’.
3. Select a Theme​ - go to ‘other’ and pick the blue smokey one called ‘Sarah Smith’ and
then the blue button that says ‘start editing’
4. Choose a website domain - come up with a title/url for your website and hit search
a. we don’t want to pay for anything, so pick the one that is a subdomain of weebly.
Use your initials in the domain and the word ‘research’.
b. EXAMPLE: https://dsresearchproject (and then it will have .weebly.com)
5. Write a greeting - you don’t want to introduce yourself as ‘Sarah’, so write something
about your research project. Here are two options
a. Write about your research topic:
i. “​Research on why people fled the Ghetto’s in Poland before the
holocaust.”
b. Be more creative and more personal:
i. “My family escaped the Ghettos in Poland, and I wanted to learn more;
this website documents a research project I did about fleeing ghettos.
6. Delete what we don’t need from the template - we don’t need everything from the
template, so we will delete the stuff we don’t like. Delete items by moving your mouse
over any element and clicking the the top right-hand corner that has the ‘X’ on it.
a. Delete everything below the blue image
b. There are places that have blank spaces - these are called ‘spacers’. Delete
these as well
7. Save your work - Do this often! Save your work by hitting ‘publish’
8. Create your sections - Create additional pages where you will put the different parts of
your research project. You will create 4 different pages by following the same steps each
time.
a. Click on the ‘pages’ link at the top of the editor.
b. Delete all the existing pages by click on each, then clicking delete.
c. Add a new page by clicking the plus sign
d. Pick standard page
e. Change the header to ‘no header’
f. Title each Page:
i. Research Process
ii. Research Paper
iii. Annotated Bibliography
 iv. Artifacts - you don’t need to have this page, you can put family artifacts
throughout if you want to really jazz it up. Or, just put them on this page
g. Repeat this 4 times
9. Add your written content - Go to “Build” for each page and drag in the ‘scribed document’
box. This will allow you to upload your documents. OR, simply cut and paste your text
into the ‘text’ box you can drag into the main part.
a. Use Scribed
i. Drag the Scribd icon into your webpage
ii. Go to googledoc you want to download
iii. Must download gdoc using the file→ download→ pdf document
iv. Follow scripd instructions
b. Use Embed code
i. Drag the embed code element in the build section to the spot you want it
in your weebly
ii. In google doc, go to file→ publish to web
iii. Copy embed code
iv. Add right after “​>​” sign: ​ ​width=100% height="720"
1. EXAMPLE: <iframe
src="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRJHRpkR8
5lrgkgbGIrwwpo4cwbxWr7ncJhS_1TSyvwm4x5ZNtf-TQwXMYMO
0446bi4CQsJnFo743QA/pub?embedded=true"​ width=100%
height="720"​></iframe>
10. The last thing you need to do is hit ‘publish’ one last time and it’s live!