First Steps

Weebly is the easiest way to build your own website.  But that doesn’t mean you can’t use some help getting to know your way around.  

All the basics you need in order to put together your first (and second, third, fourth - even seventeenth) site can be found over these next several pages.  Take a few minutes to read this guide and you’ll be an expert in about the time it takes to fix a nice breakfast.  Maybe one that involves pancakes. 

Let's get to it and build a site!

You're now ready to start building your site.  In the process of building your site (and reading this guide) you'll be working with:

Elements

Elements are the basic building blocks of your site.  All of your site content, be it text, pictures, videos or what have you, is added via an element.

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Pages

We’ll be adding several pages (including a blog) to our test site in this guide.  Free users can have up to 6 pages on their site.  Premium users can have an unlimited number of pages on a site. 

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Themes / Design

You can select from any one of a number of themes and switch to a different theme at any time. This affects the look of your site.  All of your pages and elements remain in place, no matter what theme you choose.  We’ll switch themes and take a close look at the theme options (like changing fonts) towards the end of the guide.

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With the basics done, the next step is to learn how to Add Your First Elements to a site.