Creating a Portfolio Website

Phillips

Go to wix.com

Click Sign In

Create a new user + password

Re-enter Email and Password, Click Sign up

Select a category or click “all templates” (at the bottom)

Pick a template (blank options available & a bit easier to work with!)

Option: search for portfolio

Pick a template by clicking edit!

Watch the introduction video.

Security Features

Required of all students

Search engines should not be able to find you.

1. 2. 3. Click the button. If it turns from red to green, you’vecompleted this task correctly.

Protecting with a password (required)

Protecting with a password 2 (required – make every page the same password)

Renaming existing pages

SAVE A DRAFT

Adding pages

Adding pages 2

Reordering pages (drag and drop by clicking on the page you want to move)

Adding Elements (text, image, etc.)

Add a blog page like you would any page (only one blog per website allowed).

Adding a blog elements

To Edit Other Pages – choose a page at the top

Another way to find settings – click anywhere on the page or on a specific item

To delete features – click item & select trash icon (bottom right of pop-up menu)

Hm... I want to delete this thing.

Undo-Redo and Copy-Paste

Adding images

Adding Images 2

Adding images 3(drag and drop from folder OR select files to upload)

Adding hyperlinks

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Step 1 - Highlight or click on the text or image that you want to hyperlinkStep 2 – Click the link button

Adding hyperlinksStep 3 – Select the type of hyperlink you would like to create.

Step 4 – click “ok”

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Adding hyperlinksStep 5 – Copy the URL from a website, upload an image, upload a document, etc. -- Select what you are hyperlinking.Step 6 – copy weblink or select image/document, click “open in new window” or “open in same window” if those are options

For this example, I’m copying a URL from a website that I want to link to my portfolio!

5.

6.I’m pasting the URL I copied into the

correct location on my wix page. I

select open in new window or open in the same window.

Hyperlinks: Did it work?

Dotted line underneath =

YES, it worked!

Adding hyperlinks to an image

1. Click on the image.2. Click “link to”3. Choose the type of hyperlink you would like to create.

Where do I find my site address?

Changing Background, Color, and Font

Adding documents

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1. Choose the “+” sign.2. Click on “media”.

Adding documents 2

Adding documents 3

When you add a document, an icon will pop up on the screen. Right click or double click the icon to add your document by clicking “choose document” from the menu.

Adding documents 4

Now, you will either choose a document you’ve uploaded or upload a new document.

Adding documents 5

Your document is now on the page. You may move it to a different part of the page. You may change the icon or style of the font, too.

Other media could include …

Add buttons and menus

Add free apps (including one that will let you embed the web)

Add page transitions

Ask questions! The help center has videos!