Weebly is a great tool for creating websites. Either educational, business or for fun. Creating a site is simple and the appearance is professional. I think it's comparable to tools such as
Squidoo, though I have no experience creating a site using those tools so you may find this post bias. I started with
Weebly after working at a computer camp where myself and a teacher taught tween and teen students how to make websites using
Weebly. The curriculum was all her idea. Outside of work, I was looking for a simple way to create a site that was easy to update without having to download software. My life right now does not allow me to sit at one computer and rely on software to create a site and I found that made it difficult for me to update my website so I had an out-of-date website which, as a librarian, is not good. After the computer camp I thought about putting the content from my existing website onto
Weebly to see what I could do with it. I loved how easy it was and how professional the site looked. Then I simply linked it to my own domain. I use the free version of
Weebly so I still have the logo at the bottom of my page, eventually it would be worth it for me to purchase the professional version, but for now the free version works. Since my first time using
Weebly in August 2010, I have created three websites that I will share with you and I am working on a fourth. I will share that one with you at a later date.
Weebly also has an education version of the tool that allows an educator to create a class roster with names, user names and passwords on the site and manage the list. It also allows the teacher to create a class site. I find this useful for a program I am doing to teach middle school age students about Internet safety and website design. I created an Internet safety site to guide students through Internet conduct does and donts and then taught them to use Weebly so they can create their own Internet safety sites. The purpose of the program is to have a website design competition and (secretly) teach the students about Internet safety so they can share their knowledge with their peers. I'll let you know how that program works out. Here are my sites:
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