Build a Club Website 2 - Sign Up with Weebly
Let's Go!
Go to your second web browser window. (If you only have one open at the moment
go to the File menu and choose to open a new window.) Type in to the
address bar at the top www.weebly.com
(That means you keep this page ready in a window, while the Weebly opens
in the other.)
Weebly looks like this:
1.
Check their "terms of service" if you wish. It is the usual legalistic
gobbledygook. The essential elements are that you must be over 13 to sign
up, must not put anything illegal on your website, must respect copyrights
and that if you cancel or the company folds then all your work is gone forever.
Don't worry about that part. I have a cunning plan ... more later.
Type in a Username, password and a valid email address.
I strongly suggest you tell the username and password to one or two
other club members ... so that if you go to Australia for six months
or just need help with updates - someone else can look after the club
website. |
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2.
When you have typed in the username, an extra box appears. This is
known as a CAPTCHA system and is to make sure that you are a human being
not a computer program. Type the letters, numbers and punctuation and click
"Sign Up".
If at first you don't succeed: try, try, try again ...
NO! Try once more - a different set of letters will be shown.
If that does not work, click the little picture of a loudspeaker and listen
to a distorted voice reading out letters and numbers and type them in. (Watch
out for "zero" which can sound very odd.) CAPTCHA systems are a nuisance
but they help keep down spam. |
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Then you need a name for the website.
This can be changed later, but you might as well give it the name of your
club.
Here we have invented a club. |
Choose A Website Address
Be careful. Weebly usually fills in option
B, which costs money ... so for now choose Option A - as shown on the right
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(Once the website is up and running, you may come back to this choice
and pick a different option.)
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| The name you type here is what people will have to type into their web
browsers to see the new club website, so keep it as short as you can. It
is best to write it all in lower case letters, because some older web systems
get fussy about capitals.
If no one else has already chosen that name, the word "available" appears
in green beside it.
If it is not available, you will have to invent a slightly different name.
Here we simply inserted a hyphen. We could have tried "midlandsmovies"
or "midlandsmoviesclub" for example. Do not use an underline, "midlands_movies",
because that confuses people.
When all is well, click "Continue" and we are off! |
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