Diane dela cruz_how to create a simple landing page with weebly

Weebly is one of my favorite free hosting services. I love their website builder! It’s so easy to use!

Before you can use it, you must create an account.

You can either connect the service to your Facebook account …

… or you can sign up the old-fashioned way: by providing your name, email, and password.

Once you have signed up, you can now log in.

Click the Facebook tab or enter your email and password.

To build a website, click the orange “Add Site” button.

Enter the title of your landing page.

I suggest that you name it as something like, “Thank you for joining my list.”

Select “Other” in the “Type of Site” dropdown menu.

Hit the continue button.

You will be prompted to select a website domain.

Select “Use a subdomain of Weebly.com” and hit the

orange button.

You will be brought to the website editor.

To change the theme of the website, click the “Design”

tab.

You will see this:

To get a better look of all the available themes, click on “All

Themes.”

You will find a gallery of themes. Click on the theme

you like.

This is a good theme for a landing page:

When you click on the theme you like, you will be shown a

preview.

Click “Use Theme” to use the design you want.

Make sure that these are all turned off:

Click to turn off:

To remove the header, hover your mouse on the picture and click on the gear icon.

Select “No Header.”

See, the picture is gone!

To add text and pictures to your landing page, click on

the “Elements” tab.

You will find elements of the website, which you can

simply drag.

Let’s say you want to add some title text.

Drag the “Title Text” icon into the website area.

You will see the words “Click here to edit.”

Now, obviously, you know what to do.

When you click, the area where the text should be will

have a yellow outline.

Enter your text.

This tool bar here will help you format the text (bold,

italicize, change the font size, etc.)

Use this to make your text bold.

Use the plus (+) or minus (-) sign to change the size of the

font.

Use this to hyperlink your text:

To insert a picture, drag the picture icon.

Click the blue rectangle to upload a photo from your

computer.

Then, click the green bar.

Here’s the picture:

You may want to reward your subscribers by giving them a

freebie like an e-book.

So how do you upload a file on a Weebly site?

See this?

Let’s take a closer look:

Click the link icon:

This will appear:

Click “File on your website.”

Click “upload a file.”

Choose the file you want to upload.

There are a few things you still need to do.

Click the “Pages” tab.

You will see this:

Click the orange “Add a Page” button.

Click “External Link” in the black dropdown.

Type the name of your main website or you can simply type

“blog” if you have a blog.

Type the link to your blog or website and click “Save

Settings.”

You will see this:

Don’t worry about the picture. The tab that has your main site

name or your blog’s title will lead people to your site or blog.

Click “Advanced Settings.”

You will see this:

Scroll down a bit further and check the box that says:

“Hide this page from search engines.”

Hit the “Save Settings” button.

Why would you want your site to be hidden from search

engines?

Because your freebie, which is only for your subscribers, is available through that site.

You wouldn’t want it to be found on search engines.

Why?

Because your freebie is meant to be downloaded by people who give you their email addresses!

They should get your freebie by entering their name and email

in your “email catcher.”

When your site is ready, hit the orange “Publish” button.

There you go!

The End.