Weebly

This weeks assignment was to create a Weebly account. The end goal of creating a Weebly was to be able to track submission forms through Google Analytics. The Weebly site could be about anything we wanted it to be about. Some of my classmates had very interesting ideas like a website for travel and a website for movies. It is interesting to see how you can use a site like Weebly to make so many different types of websites. When you set up your account you can choose from many different themes. They have several different presets you can choose from. These presets range from a restaurant tailored background to a galaxy space background. Once you choose the background you can begin creating your site. You are able to change the colors and text styles. You can add applications, boxes, and images for free. You are also able to make purchases which allow you to make a more professional looking website.

Personally, I find Weebly a little more complicated to use then Wix. With Wix you have a more user friendly experience. You are able to move things around how you want them to be. Whereas in Weebly you have to follow the setup they have. Weebly is definitely still a good website to use, I just found it more complicated. Wix offers all of the same things that Weebly offers, with in-site purchases as well as free applications. 

For my Weebly account I made a Food, Fashion, & Beauty site. I created a homepage, an about me page, a blog page, and a contact page. The main goal, as I said before, was to be able to track the submission forms on the contact page. We had to set up a "thank you" screen as well. Once a person submits the form, they are supposed to be redirected to a "thank you" page. It was really interesting to learn the process of doing this because I always thought it was really complicated. The truth is, figuring out this kind of stuff is really interesting and makes visiting other websites more exciting. Once you learn how to set up a website, you can actually better understand all that goes into making some of your favorite stores' websites. 

The next step in creating my Weebly account is to connect it to Google Analytics. I will be learning how to do this within the next few days. It will be nice to actually be able to track submission forms to the website though Google Analytics. I know that I will have to set up a goal through Google Analytics in order for it to actually track what I want it too.  

This is what my Weebly homepage looks like!