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Digital Champions

Session 9: Wrapping up Weebly and designing a team logo

10.10.2021

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Start-of-session questions

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Last time, we...

  • Worked on our Weebly sites
    • Saw how to add our own HTML
    • Removed unnecessary pictures/text that our templates gave us
  • Learned about how to interview someone you’re making a website for

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Today, we’ll...

  • Wrap up our time with Weebly (for now)
  • Discuss how to help one of the businesses some of you will be interning with!
  • Learn about what makes it easy to discover them on Google
  • Talk about how we can improve their current website / social media

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Let’s go back to Weebly

(weebly.com)

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Wrapping up Weebly

  • You’ve been making great sites on Weebly
  • After today → learning skills that help people discover and enjoy them
    • Making them easier to explore and use
    • Promoting them on social media
    • Using tools to learn how people use them
  • Today → a few more key Weebly skills so you can keep working on them on your own!

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A quick note

  • There will always be more to learn about Weebly
  • If we don’t cover something that you want to do on your site, you can:
    • Ask us! (in class, or our contact info is on bit.ly/digital-champs)
    • Experiment!
    • Google! (if you’re having trouble with something, someone else probably has too)

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Task 1: Plan your menu!

Your current Weebly template probably has some kind of menu near the top of the page

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Task 1: Plan your menu!

  • Take 5 minutes
    • Think of at least two other sections your site could have
      • “What are some of the activities that people might do here?”
      • “What are some of the categories of information my site will have?”
  • Already thought of these?
    • Use the “Pages” menu of Weebly to see if you can figure out how to add these sections as new pages
    • (We’ll walk everyone through this in just a bit)

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Task 2: Create new pages!

  • For one of your menu items, create a new page!

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Task 3: Add a little content!

  • On most sites, each “section” page has a title and text to tell the user what the section is about
  • Add these to your new page
  • (Don’t stress about the text - you can always change it later)
  • Already added these? How about a picture?

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Task 4: Linking between pages

  • Link some of your text to your Home page (or another on your site if you have one)
  • (You can also do this with buttons, images, and other content)

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Task 5: Add a video (or something else)!

  • Text is fun and necessary, but don’t forget to make your site more inviting by adding media / user interaction
  • YouTube videos are a good one
  • Other good options
    • Social icons
    • Contact form
    • RSVP form
    • Survey

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Task 6: Publish your site!

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Is there anything else you want to know how to add?

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Internship prep

Making a business visible on Google

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“Pittsburgh community basketball”

bit.ly/ozanam-fb

bit.ly/ozanam-home

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Discussion

A team logo

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Different name?

What logo represents us?

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End-of-sesh questions

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