Week: 6 Blog Assignment

After watching the tutorials in class about the differences between Wix and Weebly, we found it most beneficial to use Weebly for our group presentation.  Although half of our group members decided to work with Wix on the practice day, we felt as if we were most comfortable sticking with Weebly based on the assumption that if felt a bit easier to operate and use when creating our group website.  I felt that adding pictures, videos, captions, and many other forms that associate with Weebly were extremely easy to use because all you do is basically click, drag and paste where you want what included on any of your main pages.  The easiest part of using Weebly compared to Wix was the ability to function everything around so much easier without creating a giant cluster of text that wasn't meant to be there in the first place.  That being said, we did come across a few complications with this free website builder.

For example, although we found it extremely easy to add text and pictures where you wanted them on each particular page, it was very complicated to get the pictures to line up exactly with the text provided based on the fact that we put most of our information into two columns.  As we described in class over the course of the quarter, we took the C.R.A.P. principles into affect as we were laying out the basic design of our group websites making sure everything lined up accordingly and making sure the layout was 100% accurate for each of our 5 pages.  I think that the biggest complication we came across was identifying each picture's size as well as putting the information evenly on the page provided.  Though I haven't ever worked with Wix in the past, I believe we stuck with a good choice on identifying Weebly as the right site for us as we created our project.  Below I have include steps to perfecting the use of Weebly accuratly in the future for students looking to build their own websites:

• There are two different types of pages you can add using Weebly©. 

1) a  normal page such as the one you're on now, and 

2)  You can name your page whatever you want. 

• There are over 70 professional designs that you can use or you can customize your own one.  You can customize the template of your site, or build your own with HTML & CSS in the Weebly editor.

• Some of the things you can put on your Weebly page are pictures, videos, music and audio, documents, maps, links to other websites, links to other pages, photo galleries, files, YouTube clips, slideshows, even online polls.  You can divide your page into two columns to make room for more paragraphs. 

• There are no limits on the number of pages allowed, but there are limitations to a few things such as you have to use a certain font style but you can choose the colour of the font, the size, bold/normal, underlined, italic.