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How to set up your Happiness Initiative website on Weebly: a simple and easy guide
happycounts.org
Creating a Website
This is a guide for creating a free website on weebly, a webhosting service. You can use other services, such as wordpress, but we have found that weebly is the easiest.
Why do you need a website?
Why a Website You will need a website or other means to provide
the link for your Gross National Happiness Index unique code.
• You may have a city, company or organization webpage that you use instead of creating a new website. Or you may use newsletters exclusively to send out your code. This is fine. This guide is for those who are better served with a website for their project.
• We recommend you do not provide the entire URL, as there is a chance for user error which will prevent you from collecting all the data for survey takers in your area. Instead, send people to your website, send an electronic newsletter or otherwise provide a link.
• We recommend you do not refer people to the Happiness Alliance –home of The Happiness Initiative’s website (happycounts.org) to take the survey, as the data from your survey takers will not be
collected in a unique data for your area. This only happens if you have a unique code.
What you need:A Unique Code for the Gross National Happiness IndexAccess to the internetAn email for your project Text and images for your website
Some images are provided here and you are welcome to use others on The Happiness Initiative website at happycounts.org as long as you give attribution and a link to happycounts.org
Your unique code If you do not already have a unique code
for the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index so you can collect GNH results for your area, group, team or other population, email [email protected]. We will send you the memorandum of understanding and a code. Please donate for the use of a code!
Why an email?
You will need this to create a weebly You will need this to create a weebly profile. We recommend you create an profile. We recommend you create an email for your project so you do not need email for your project so you do not need to use your personal email. This way you to use your personal email. This way you can give a volunteer or staff person can give a volunteer or staff person access to the website by giving them the access to the website by giving them the email username and password. email username and password.
Creating a Website
Step one: Go to weebly.com and set up your profile with your project email and password.
Creating a WebsiteStep two: decide on your domain name. This is important: to have a free website, you must choose the category “use a subdomain of weebly.com” This means your website’s URL will be nameofyourproject.weebly.com. You can buy a domain, but then it is not free! Weebly will try to see you a domain each time you update. This guide will show you how to keep it free.
Creating a WebsiteStep three: Choose a Theme. You can always change this. Most themes allow you to change the homepage image. Choose the one you like. (Factors to consider: placement of menu bars, background, placement of homepage images, look and feel)
We chose this theme. Choose what you like.
We chose this theme. Choose what you like.
Creating a WebsiteStep four: Change the backgroud picture on your home page
Edit image here
Edit image here
Save the image
Save the image
Creating a WebsiteStep five: Drop in your title bar and text box, edit both
Click the title box
Click the title box
Drag and then click in to edit Drag and then click in to edit
Click the text box
Click the text box
Drag and then click in to edit Drag and then click in to edit
Step six: Edit header and social media Creating a Website
Click and editClick and edit Click and editClick and edit
Fill in links or delete icons Fill in links or delete icons
Click Social Media iconsClick Social Media icons
Creating a WebsiteStep seven: Create link with your GNH unique code and place image in your text box
2- Click the link icon
2- Click the link icon
1- Highlight text1- Highlight text
3- Place your unique code/URL, click box
for new window
3- Place your unique code/URL, click box
for new window
Click image box and
replace image
Click image box and
replace image
Creating a WebsiteStep eight: Now to publish for the first time!
Click Publish
Click Publish
Choose “use a subdomain…”Choose “use a subdomain…”
Click to categorize
Click to categorize
ValidateValidate
The next step is important to keep your website free!
Creating a WebsiteStep nine: Now to publish. Weebly will try to sell you a domain now!
Click on this link and ignore the
one below it. You will see this
every time you publish
Click on this link and ignore the
one below it. You will see this
every time you publish
click the x to return
click the x to return
Creating a WebsiteNow you are live. You can now add pages to your website
Creating a WebsiteStep ten: Create another page. Here we created an “About” page
Click on
Pages
Click on
Pages
Creating a WebsiteStep ten.1: Create another page. Here we created an “About” page
1- Choose standard page
1- Choose standard page 3- Choose
layout3- Choose
layout
2- Name the page 2- Name the page
You can add any feature
you like
You can add any feature
you like
Here we
chose a
you-tube &
title bar
Here we
chose a
you-tube &
title bar
5- Use scroll bar and features
5- Use scroll bar and features
Now hit publish again and do the same steps as step 9
4- Click Save and Continue4- Click Save and Continue
Creating a WebsiteLet’s add some resources. First click on the “Pages” again.
Click on
Pages
Click on
Pages
Creating a WebsiteAdding resources.
3- Choose layout
3- Choose layout
Scroll down to media and drag
“Document”
Scroll down to media and drag
“Document”Drop in your title and text
boxes
Drop in your title and text
boxes
Now hit publish again and do the same steps as step 9
1- Choose standard page
1- Choose standard page
2- Name the page 2- Name the page
4- Click Save and Continue4- Click Save and Continue
Click in, add doc to box
Click in, add doc to box
A second box hereA second box here
Creating a WebsiteYou can create as many pages as you like.
Try not to clutter your menu bar. There are many boxes/features that are free, and some that require you pay for the weebly service (this is different from paying for a website)
Example Happiness Initiative Websites:
