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In fact,creating a website is some how similar to building a house.Of course,you need a strong foundation.
So,what i mean to say,you should choose a right website building platform,before you start building your website. So, Any ideas About website Building Platform? |
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If you remember the early days of internet,you could imagine how difficult it was to create a website using HTML and javascript.
Now, you’ve got many convenient options that will help you building a free website using drag and drop site builders within an hour. |
I would like to disclose why I preferred weekly as my website building tool.
What is Weebly ?
What is Weebly ?
Weebly is a web-hosting service featuring a drag-and-drop website builder.It is very popular and provides surprisingly easiest steps to build high quality websites,blogs or online shops.
Why you should choose Weebly as your site building tool?
Before we jump into the details of how to build a website,let’s
highlight few points- why Weebly may be a better choice or platform for bringing your unique online business ideas into life.
Simple drag n' drop interface:
You need no professional background or any coding knowledge to create a top ranking website.
You really don’t need to understand any code to build an attractive Weebly website.Weekly offers free website layout and designs. No need to waste a lot of time to build a creative website, as the templates are already made for you.
10 Reasons Why You Should Start Blogging-"That can change your life" .
Time is money-How to prove it ?
Weebly offers free along with paid services :
You can continue it's free web hosting services as long as you can.Weebly provides best values for their customers and hassle free services without pressurising the users for upgrading them to premium or paid plans.
Weekly provides best support team:
If you are a newbie user,want some guidelines,weebly is very popular for supporting their users.You can ask your queries or chat online 24X7.
Hundreds of Free Templates :
You can choose your template or theme from a huge array of available templates built free for you.If you have some basic experience in HTML and CSS,Weebly provides you the code,you can further customise them to meet your requirements.
In this tutorial, I will show you the simple steps of building your first website using Weebly.
It's time for a fresh registration
1. Open Weebly site on your browser.The site will open in a new window,so that you can follow their tutorial
2. If you are a new user,just click on "sign up" or "try it free" tab.Make sure that,you are using separate account without linking to Facebook or google plus for keeping things more easier.
Now,put in your name,email address and password, and click the blue “sign up” button.
Great, you’ve registered a website on weebly.com.
Now what? you have to select,whether you want to create a blog site or a small business website.
Now what? you have to select,whether you want to create a blog site or a small business website.
3. You can see a list of free themes below.You have to select your favourite theme scrolling through all of them.As I told you,it's really easy ,isn't it ?
4. Once you choose your theme you like, click on it,you will se a popup window asking for domain name you have owned or choosing any subdomain for the time being.Let's put a subdomain "topmakemoneytips" as subdomain.However, I would suggest that you register a domain of your own if you want your site to be search engine friendly andit gives a professional look.You have a option here to register a new domain.
5. Click “Continue”, once you’re finished, you will be presented with Weebly’s browser-based page editor.
6.If you are still not satisfied with the look and feel of your theme, you can change it and check preview and again select it as per your own requirements by clicking on themes tab of weekly site editor.
How to customize Weebly site?
Now you are in Weebly page editor, you can see your template is loaded as shown below.
In the above screenshot,you can see a collection of tools and plugins available on the left side used to design your site by drag n' drop.
Let's learn some basic steps:
Change the name of the site
You can just click on the title "My Site" text and write your site title .
Example: "Make Money Online Tips".You can put a logo of your site by clicking the "logo" button as your wish.
Let's learn some basic steps:
Change the name of the site
You can just click on the title "My Site" text and write your site title .
Example: "Make Money Online Tips".You can put a logo of your site by clicking the "logo" button as your wish.
Change the main image:
If you want to change the main image,just move the cursor over the image, you will notice an orange “edit image” button there.Click on that button,,you will be asked to choose any existing image from weekly editor or you can upload a suitable sized image from your computer as it meets your requirement.You can also upgrade your plan to show slide show of images in this area.Once you are finished,just click on save button below.
If you want to change the main image,just move the cursor over the image, you will notice an orange “edit image” button there.Click on that button,,you will be asked to choose any existing image from weekly editor or you can upload a suitable sized image from your computer as it meets your requirement.You can also upgrade your plan to show slide show of images in this area.Once you are finished,just click on save button below.
How to add Pages to your weebly site?
You can notice there are three default pages ("Home","About","Contact") already created by the template.If you are interested to add other pages to your site,you can click on pages tab on weekly editor.There is a '+' sign on the screenshot I have shared a screenshot below.Click on it and rename this page as you need.Of course,it's free to add as many pages you can.
You can notice there are three default pages ("Home","About","Contact") already created by the template.If you are interested to add other pages to your site,you can click on pages tab on weekly editor.There is a '+' sign on the screenshot I have shared a screenshot below.Click on it and rename this page as you need.Of course,it's free to add as many pages you can.
How to use Weebly toolbox?
Now you are comfortable with the basic structure of Weebly site editor.Let's add some page elements using drag n' drop functionality.I am going to use demo "Home" page here.So, you are in "Home" page of your site now.
Click on "Build" tab to view the Weebly toolbox and plugins.
I will show you ,how to put a "Social Icons" on the right blog sidebar of your site.
Scroll down the tools on the left of the page until you find the “Social Icons” option, then drag it into the white space as shown below.I would like to mention that,you can drag page elements to customise your website sidebar.
Once you are done,you will notice some social media icons on the Website sidebar.
You can link your Facebook business page or other social media pages with these icons.so that the users can follow your posts and share it in different social media platforms.In my upcoming posts,I will demonstrate -how we can create social media business pages for your website.
Let's take Facebook as a option to continue our tutorial.
Click on Facebook icon->manage Icons->choose Facebook.You can give a link to your Facebook business page.
You can link your Facebook business page or other social media pages with these icons.so that the users can follow your posts and share it in different social media platforms.In my upcoming posts,I will demonstrate -how we can create social media business pages for your website.
Let's take Facebook as a option to continue our tutorial.
Click on Facebook icon->manage Icons->choose Facebook.You can give a link to your Facebook business page.
Make sure you have enabled the Facebook icon switch to display on your site as shown below.If you don't link these icons,then they will be hidden from your site
However, as you will have observed, the tools are so easy to manage.You have to spend some valuable time to make your site attractive.In my previous post,I have shared the key concepts about Google Adsense to monetize your website latter.
Read:
what is google Adsense?-Lets understand the Basics.
Is It Possible To Make 10 to15 Dollars Daily Blogging With Google AdSense?
You should know the Reasons-"Why are you struggling to make money from Google AdSense".
Mobile Compatibility:
It's a good news that weebly helps your site to run in mobile.
In the top middle of the screen, just click on the desktop icon.You will se a mobile icon there in a drop and iron menu.
Click on the mobile icon.You will be able to customise your site on mobile device.
Read:
what is google Adsense?-Lets understand the Basics.
Is It Possible To Make 10 to15 Dollars Daily Blogging With Google AdSense?
You should know the Reasons-"Why are you struggling to make money from Google AdSense".
Mobile Compatibility:
It's a good news that weebly helps your site to run in mobile.
In the top middle of the screen, just click on the desktop icon.You will se a mobile icon there in a drop and iron menu.
Click on the mobile icon.You will be able to customise your site on mobile device.
Few more things:
I think you are excited now to publish your site.Just remember few important things before publishing your site.
Settings:
Click on “Settings” and then “SEO” and add nice a site description and some high ranking keywords. This will help search engines for indexing your site.
I think you are excited now to publish your site.Just remember few important things before publishing your site.
Settings:
Click on “Settings” and then “SEO” and add nice a site description and some high ranking keywords. This will help search engines for indexing your site.
How to publish Weebly site?
Click the orange “publish” button in the top right of the screen.
You have to confirm the domain again.If you want to continue with the subdomain click "Continue" or choose a domain of your own.
If you continue with the subdomain your site address will be makemoneytips.weebly.com
Next,you will then have to go through a captcha verification.
Click the orange “publish” button in the top right of the screen.
You have to confirm the domain again.If you want to continue with the subdomain click "Continue" or choose a domain of your own.
If you continue with the subdomain your site address will be makemoneytips.weebly.com
Next,you will then have to go through a captcha verification.
Site Development
Cheers! Your site is live publicly to receive its visitors across the globe.Remember content is the King.Your site's search listing depends on your high quality content.Add new content regularly to make your site fresh.
Read:
Blogs That Make Huge Money-Blogging Tips
Can we quit daily job and make living just by Blogging.
10 Reasons Why You Should Start Blogging-"That can change your life" .
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