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Build a Class Website – Wix

stop now we’re going to take a look at wicks so thank you for coming and taking a look but we’re going to wix com and peek at their website creator so what we’re going to do is um I already have an account with Wix so I’m going to sign in but if you were a new user what’s the same thing here so I’m gonna sign in with my google account like I have been all right and I have not actually created a site with them just yet but what I want to do is
I want to create a new site so what I’m going to do is I’m going to go here and I’m going to say well look at all of these different things and they have a bunch of categories over here too so I like community and education so if i wanted to do um you know different things you guys will notice the price down here is free for a lot of these and that’s awesome you know they do have some but this this one on the back to school one here is prices
ecommerce which means you have to pay a licensing fee every month to use it so i’m going to take a look and see at this and i’m going to edit this page here and it’s all done html5 which means that we can drag and drop as needed which is a pretty cool way to go about and do this and they’re going to pop up and pop in and tell us about that but what I have here is I have this this website right and again I can pop on and change real quick so and
you guys can kind of see I can do that I can change these things up I can change this image to be you know something that I something here and we’ll do something free from Wix real quick and when we do that you know will do to carefully drive okay and there it is up there and we have a slideshow here and we can organize images and change it so let’s organize some images here and get some different images going now what’s nice about wicks is
they’re willing to give you a quite a bit of stuff so we can add a couple more images and kind of go through and do that so you got big stock images you got free from Wix so we got these different things here you know we can choose all of these different web of these different things and say okay here we go ad images so now we have a pretty awesome slideshow we can get rid of their stock University images here if we are good so it’s not really
good for you know necessarily what we’re doing but you can change this to kind of be different things see we have a contact form that’s automatically created into so you guys can do that we can reinvent ourselves down here and create these different pages what’s really cool is I can go to pages and I can say okay well I’ve got my welcome page so let’s add um you know lets you know do some different things here so what we can do is we can say you
know let’s add a page and we’ll say it’s an about page and we’ll call it about one and here we go is I get to kind of go in and edit and I get to edit kind of where I see this um you know I can kind of go forth and edit all of these different things and it’s really powerful and you can definitely kind of see that so like you know I can change the copyright to copyright it with mine I could actually get rid of the with Wix part if I chose to all
right so now I have that there and I can go back to pages and here’s this and I can change the settings I don’t really like the about let’s call it the welcome and what i can do is i can kind of do this and change my different things on here it’s a really powerful tool used for creating websites here and pretty cool I can change things with background change colors change fonts change text add images let’s add an image here you know add an image
to this page will upload an image real quick from my handy dandy you know different files here and I will collect that and we’ll throw on Sparty it seems to be such a good picture and you can kind of see is it wants to you know kind of it has the different things here I accidentally added more than one page so I put that right there and I am now done with that right and it kind of works as you save saves as you work excuse me and you guys can
kind of see that and kind of see so what will happen with that I could do all kinds of different things i can add market things which is going to cost me money in the long run change my site address and make sure that i am good there you know yeah so when it comes down to is it’s a pretty powerful tool for us to use in our classrooms and we can definitely kind of see what it is that we need to do and you see our homepage here back to where it’s
at and you guys can kind of create and do all these different things that you guys need to do for this which is a pretty pretty awesome tool home and change the background I can change the background just show you that real quick pink flamingos seems to make sense um so yeah and we’re kind of there it’s got that mobile editor so what do you want the mobile to see I’m going to walk you through that as well and kind of say okay you know we can hide
certain items here and preview and all that other stuff and you know kind of there so start a Denis will save okay so let’s insert my site name ET c and i am now saved it my work has been saved i need to publish my website allow search engines to find it a lot of the mobile view we’re good congratulations it sprout that’s there and i’m all done so thanks for watching take care enjoy creation creating