Creating Your Very Own Website (Students)

Lets get started! 1. Go to: sites.google.com 2. Sign up for an account

1. Create your account by inputting email address and creating a password 2. Activate your account by accessing your email account

Fill out the information on the welcome page. Then create site

Activating your site. You will need to access the email account that you used to sign up for the website account. Once you have accessed your e-mail account you will see a link to activate your account. Activate the link and then you will be ready to begin.

Click on the tab that says edit page to begin editing your web site.

Rename the area that says home to the name that you have given your site or any other name that you would like.

Now lets add some written content to your page by describing its purpose. This site was designed to take the KIPP WAYS staff from good to great by evolving our curriculum and instruction through 21 st technology.

We can enhance the personality of our site by adding pictures. Open another web page Go to KIPPWAYS.ORG Right click on the KIPP WAYS logo Left click on the word copy

Now let’s add the image! Left click the beginning of the passage you just added. Paste the image to the beginning of the phrase you just added. This can be done by holding the control button and the letter “V”

Let’s look at another way to add pictures. Go to www.yahoo.com Click on the images link Type in the name of any image you wish to add to your page (I’ll type the word math). Press enter math

1. Now we’ll select an image. 2. Then view the image 1 2

Copy and past the image to your web page as we did before.

Now well add links to other web sites. 1.Type the text you want to lead to another site (Ex: kippways) 2. Highlight the text with your mouse 3. Access the insert tab 4. Access the link tab 1 3 4

1. Click the section that labeled web address 2. Type in the link that you would like then click ok 1 2 2

Now that we’ve added images, and links to other sites lets imbed and attach documents, and presentations. Go to documents tab

Select the browse tab, choose the file you wish to attach, then click open Select the browse tab Choose the file you wish to attach Click the open tab Name the document as you would like it to appear 1 2 3

To add the document or presentation to the site go back to your page and select the insert tab. 1. Select the insert tab on the page. 2. Select the document or presentation tab.

3. Select the uploaded file you would like to insert then

Files may also be attached at the bottom of the page without having it fully displayed. 1. Select the attachment tab 2. Select browse tab 3. Identify the file you would like to attach 4. Then select the open tab 1 2 3 4

Now let’s begin adding additional pages Save your work Select the create page tab

Select the type of page you would like to create. Name the page as you would like it. Then you may edit the page using the techniques previously shown

Now lets add our pages using the side bar 1. Go to edit side bar on the home page 2. Select add a side bar item 1 2

1. Select the add tab in the navigation box 2. Select the edit tab under the navigation box 1 2

1. Type a title in the navigation box 2. Select the add items tab to add your pages 1 2

Choose the pages you would like to add to the side bar then press ok

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