Website Directions and Requirements
Web Design 15% OF YOUR GRADE
Student creatively develops and demonstrates a full understanding navigating and building there website.
Students must meet the full requirements below.
Directions
Getting Started With The Website
Getting Started Making Your Pages
Making Your Pages
Website Page Titles
Click the Publish button to save everything
* remember your domain is your initials, the class you are in, and .weebly.com (Do not choose a domain you have to pay for)
The Home Page
You need to create a a button that links your website to the pottery website.
Go to the build button On the top header.
Click on the build button and the tool bar to the left will appear.
Scroll down and choose the button that says button.
Now drag and drop the button in the center of the page.
Click on the button so button text appears.
Type MFG CLAY here.
Click back arrow button above button text in white box.
Click link in the white box.
Choose website URL
Type mfgclay.weebly.com here
Know click the publish button
Saving Photographs
Photographs
Images from internet search
Adding Photographs and Text to you Blog Page
Web Design 15% OF YOUR GRADE
Student creatively develops and demonstrates a full understanding navigating and building there website.
Students must meet the full requirements below.
Directions
Getting Started With The Website
- Log into weebly.com
- Choose build a Website Page (not a store)
- Select theme Choose a Portfolio in header themes (not business)
- Click start editing
- Make your domain (use your initials and name of class you are in. (ex Matt Forrest Gibson in an Art One class would be mfgart1.weebly.com
- Do not choose a business site.
- Do not choose a .com .gov .us (only choose .weebly.com) at the very bottom
Getting Started Making Your Pages
- Click on Pages in the header
- Click on an existing page. (ex Blog, contact, portfolio)
- Delete it. (This will take away exiting photos on that page)
- Do this for all current pages.
- Leave the home page
Making Your Pages
- Click on pages in the header
- Click on the plus button in the top left (ex. +)
- Click Blog page (do not select standard page.)
- Click on the blue high lighted new page.
- Back space and type in the the name of your new page
- Click header and select no header.
Website Page Titles
- Artwork
- Artist Critique
- Vocabulary
Click the Publish button to save everything
* remember your domain is your initials, the class you are in, and .weebly.com (Do not choose a domain you have to pay for)
The Home Page
You need to create a a button that links your website to the pottery website.
Go to the build button On the top header.
Click on the build button and the tool bar to the left will appear.
Scroll down and choose the button that says button.
Now drag and drop the button in the center of the page.
Click on the button so button text appears.
Type MFG CLAY here.
Click back arrow button above button text in white box.
Click link in the white box.
Choose website URL
Type mfgclay.weebly.com here
Know click the publish button
Saving Photographs
- Have all images down loaded and saved to your computer.
- Make a separate folder to hold the images for the class. Name folder the folder after the class you are in.
- You can take photographs with your computer.
- If you use your phone. Save the picture and send it to your email address. Open the picture from your email, name it, save, and down load the image to your class file.
Photographs
- Always crop, and adjust lighting so the photograph is the very best it can look. Especially if you are using a phone to take photographs.
- All photographs must be cropped. Cropping is when you adjust the image straight and cut any unnecessary edges off.
- All photographs must have the lighting and sharpness edited so the image is as clear as possible.
- Photographs of 2-dimensional work must be taken vertically. You must pin up your drawing. Drawings that are take on tables distort the perspective and ruin the image.
- You may have to take the picture several times to get it perfect.
- This website is your digital portfolio of your artwork. Make your photographs look better than the art itself.
Images from internet search
- Find image
- Open image
- Down load image
- Save as a PDF and name file
- Save image to your art class file
- Some images will not be able to upload to weebly
Adding Photographs and Text to you Blog Page
- Click on pages on the top website editor
- Click on the page you want on your website header.
- Click New Post
- Click on the Build button on the top website editor
- From the tool bar to the left drag and drop a title button in the title area of the blog.
- Type your title
- Drag and drop an image button in the area below.
- click on it and it will ask you to upload an image from your computer.
- click on select image and upload the image from your files.
- From the tool bar on the left drag and drop a text button below the image.
- You can type your grade,and reflection in this box.
- When you are done click on post button if not click on save draft.
- All design sketches must be posted with completed artwork on same Blog.