Embedded Files
The Goals of this Course
The Goals of this Course
- Understand principles and concepts of web design
- Learn how the Internet works and how websites are stored, accessed, and shared
- Basic coding skills in HTML, CSS, and Javascript
- Create your own website
The Course Platform
The Course Platform
Google Classroom
Google Classroom
We will be using Google Classroom to complete this course. Google Classroom is a free web service, developed by Google for schools, that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments in a paperless way. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students. Access at http://classroom.google.com
How to join
1. Go to classroom.google.com and login with your personal account
2. Click on the plus button on the top right and choose 'Join class'
3. Enter the class code
Using Google Sites
Using Google Sites
Course Topics
Course Topics
Creating your website
Creating your website
What's The Best Free Website Builder?
What's The Best Free Website Builder?
I recommend Ucraft if you need a free website. It's one of the only website builders to let you connect custom domain names (i.e.: yourdomain.com) on a free plan— and that's a major plus.
Ucraft also offers a good free subdomain (example: yoursite.ucraft.net) and doesn't have any unreasonable limitations— for example, you can add unlimited pages.
There are a number of runner-ups: Weebly offers unlimited bandwidth and a solid free subdomain (yoursite.weebly.com), Google Sites let's you add a custom domain name and XPRS has no ads on free websites.
Advertisements
Advertisements are the major limitation of almost all free website builder plans. The only website builder without ads on free plans is XPRS). Otherwise they almost all display some kind of ad.
These ads range from the obnoxious...
Google Sites
Report abuse