Zachary Thornton Alyssa Dyer Donell Beaty Morgan Gales

How to Create an E-Portfolio Website Using Weebly

Purpose: These instructions are for anyone with or without computer experience to be able to create and edit their own personal website portfolio using Weebly. Tools Needed: A computer with internet connection An updated internet search engine to access weebly.com A valid e-mail account to register on Weebly. How these Instructions Work: The steps go into detail order of what is needed. Underline words are what is supposed to be typed into text fields. Color words symbolize what the specified buttons look like on the website. Creating a Weebly Website 1. Open up your search engine which could be Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. 2. Type www.weebly.com into your computers URL box located at the top of the browser. a. Click Enter on your computers keyboard 3. Enter your Name into the required text field a. Type in your own personal email address into the blank space beneath Email Address b. Below the email is a blank space with Password above it. Type in a personal password that you can easily remember into the blank space. 4. Verify that you are human by retyping the generated words into the required text field a. Click the orange OK, lets go! Button located directly below the text field 5. Type in the title Instructions Project Test into the Enter a Title for your Website text field a. Click the drop down list for the Type of Site, and select Portfolio b. Click the orange Continue button in the bottom, right-hand corner of the page 6. Select the Use a Subdomain of Weebly.com when prompted to choose your website domain. a. Type english2116testplan & add a two digit number to the end into the required text field for the website URL. The last two digits are for creating an URL that hasnt been used yet. If an red exit pops up then choose another combination b. Click the orange Continue button in the bottom, right-hand corner of the page

Page |2 Adding Text to Weebly Website 1. 2. 3. 4. Locate Paragraph with Title icon in the Basic Elements header at the top of the webpage Click and Drag the Paragraph with Title icon to the center of your webpage Click the darker Click here to edit Text and type in English 2116 Portfolio Testing. Click the lighter, smaller Click here to edit Text and type the phrase The purpose of this test plan is to allow a user to follow a list of instructions in hopes of learning the basics for creating a website using Weebly.

Designing Text in Weebly Website 1. Click on the blue Design tab located in the header at the top of the webpage 2. Click on the grey Design Options button located in the header at the top of the webpage on the left-hand side 3. Click on the drop down list to select Verdana style font, and 20 pt. font size for your Site Title 4. Click on the option of Paragraph title and click on the drop down Font list to select Verdana style font, and 12pt. font size for your Paragraph Title Adding a Page to your Weebly website 1. Click the Pages tab in the upper left-hand corner of the weebly webpage 2. Click the orange Add a Page button beneath the manage pages heading a. A New Page icon will appear below your Home page icon. 3. Type in Scribd into the text field required for the page name 4. Stagger the Scribd icon to the right in order to embed the Scribd page into the Home page that youve created 5. Click the orange Save Settings button at the bottom of the weebly webpage Adding a Scribd document to your Weebly website 1. Open up a new tab in the web browser you are using 2. Type www.scribd.com into the URL text field 3. Locate and click on the white Log In link in the top right-hand corner of the scribd webpage 4. When prompted, click the blue Already have a Scribd Account link at the bottom of the text box a. Type the username: english2116 into the username text field b. Type the password: engl2116 into the password text field c. Click the black Log In button located at the bottom of the text box 5. Click on the Fudge Recipe document link 6. Scroll down to the bottom of the scribd webpage and locate the black footer section 7. Click on the Embed & Share button (looks like this </>) 8. Click on the grey Embed button

Page |3 9. Copy the Embed this Document html code onto your computers clipboard a. Ctrl + A is the keyboard command to select all text in the text field b. Ctrl + C is the keyboard command to copy all selected text into the computers clipboard 10. Switch back over to your Weebly.com webpage tab in your browser 11. Locate the Basic Elements tab in the header of the weebly webpage 12. Click and drag the Custom HTML icon into the center of the Scribe webpage that youve created 13. Select the Click to set custom HTML text a. Paste the HTML copied from the Scribd.com website into the selected text field i. Ctrl + V is the keyboard command to paste text in the computers clipboard into a desired field Publishing your Weebly webpage 1. Locate and click on the orange Publish button in the top right-hand corner of the weebly webpage 2. A Website Published! Box will appear a. Click the blue Continue button located to the right of the text field containing the URL name of your website 3. Congratulate yourself on successfully publishing an E-Portfolio using Weebly