Step-by-Step Beginner Website Building

Berks LaunchBox

Embark on a web development journey at Berks LaunchBox! Learn website building hands-on with Google Sites in an interactive beginner's class

Join us at Berks LaunchBox for an beginner&#x27;s class on website building. This in-person session offers hands-on experience using Google Sites, a free and easy-to-use tool. Start your journey into web development by constructing your own website with expert guidance and support.Each major skill for building a Google Sites website will be demonstrated on a projected screen and allow you time to practice many of the skills on a dummy site you create. We won’t be trying to build your actual business website, which will take much more thought.We will work on the following skills in Google Sites:<ol><li> Add and delete page sections and drag sections to new locations</li><li> Inserting text</li><li> Inserting photos you bring on a flash drive into your website as both a photo and as a background</li><li> Insert a button for your call to action</li><li> Inserting a logo if you have one and the challenges in Google Sites for shape and size of a logo for the top of the page</li><li> Using each editing and formatting palette, where to find them, and what they control</li><li> Insert hyperlinks from text, a button, or an image</li><li> Create a new page plus how to hide a page from navigation, and change page options</li><li> How to preview on computer, phone, tablet, and return to editing</li><li> Add pages, subpages, and rearrange the menu order</li><li> Publishing your website and how to choose its temporary URL to test on different platforms, plus how to view your website.</li><li> If time: we will insert a map, a contact form, plus customize your footer</li></ol>Your instructor:Michelle Hnath, Berks LaunchBox, Facility CoordinatorMichelle has been building websites for 30 years on more platforms than she can count. Michelle is an entrepreneur of 23 years with a software company she started with her husband that is winding down.This has allowed her time to mentor startups and help to market events part-time for the Berks LaunchBox. Michelle understand that a website can’t just be a pretty thing. It has to communicate your important information quickly and clearly to be effective!Held at the Berks LaunchBox, at the Goggleworks Center for the Arts, 201 Washington Street, Suite 105, Reading, PA 19601. Free parking on flat lot in rear of the building. Enter the lot from 2nd Street.Please bring a flash drive with your logo (if you have one) and a couple of photos on it.Limited seats.

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