1. JN3800: Front page design
Wordpress and weebly

2. ASSIGNMENT WEBSITES
• Method of presentation is up to you
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o Use a blog
o Use a website builder
Breaking the story down into different
articles
Displaying an overview of the articles

3. USING A BLOG
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o Familiarity with the platform
Cons
o Limited presentation options
o Limited functionality to embed
content
Blogger and Tumblr may be too limited for some of the
articles you have planned.

4. You can use the standard layout tools to construct a page that gives an
overview of the articles and content you create and present this as an
http://jn3800module.wordpress.com/

5. ADDING A CUSTOM FRONT PAGE TO A
WORDPRESS BLOG
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Log-in to your blog dashboard
Create a new page
o Pages are static content which don't appear like posts.
Give it the headline "New front page"
Add some text
Publish the page
Go to the Settings > Reading section
Check the A static page (select below) item fromFront
page displays
Set the Front Page option to New front page
Scroll down and click Save Changes
Look at the blog

6. Creating posts
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Create a post, populate it….
Publish it
Find the URLs in your Posts list
Head back to your front page, and use these link to
direct readers from your front page intro, to the
content itself.

7. USING A WEBSITE BUILDER
• Pros
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o More layout control
o Better support for embedding
Cons
o Unfamiliar interface
o More planning needed

8. WEEBLY.COM
http://www.weebly.com/

9. TASK
• Explore weebly.com
o Try adding your workshop and
skills test content to a test site
• You could also try
o http://www.jimdo.com/
o http://www.wix.com/