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 helpful 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:
- Add and delete page sections and drag sections to new locations
- Inserting text
- Inserting photos you bring on a flash drive into your website as both a photo and as a background
- Insert a button for your call to action
- 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
- Using each editing and formatting palette, where to find them, and what they control
- Insert hyperlinks from text, a button, or an image
- Create a new page plus how to hide a page from navigation, and change page options
- How to preview on computer, phone, tablet, and return to editing
- Add pages, subpages, and rearrange the menu order
- Publishing your website and how to choose its temporary URL to test on different platforms, plus how to view your website.
- If time: we will insert a map, a contact form, plus customize your footer
Tuesday, August 27: 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. – free class
Details:
- Held IN PERSON at the: Berks LaunchBox, Goggleworks Center for the Arts- Suite 105, 201 Washington St., Reading, PA 19601
- You can park on the free, flat lot behind the GoggleWorks building. Enter the lot from 2nd street. The main entrance of the building is on Washington Street. Walk in that door, go to the back of the store, turn right and we are the first door on the left across from the elevator.
- This is a hands-on class! Please try to arrive 10-15 minutes early to get your own or a borrowed laptop connected to power, wifi, and logged in with your own google account.
- if you have your own laptop, it would be beneficial to bring it along. In case you don’t have a laptop, we have 10 laptops available for borrowing during the class. These laptops will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
- You will need to log in to your own google account from the borrowed laptops also. If you do not presently have a google account, please create one following these directions: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/27441?hl=en
- Bring a flash drive with your logo (if you have one) and a couple of digital photos for practice purposes.
- Please watch this video on creating effective and engaging content for your website before or after the class: https://psu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Crafting+Engaging+Website+Content/1_id7m6xrh
Limited seats.
Register Today!Your instructors:
Michelle Hnath, Berks LaunchBox, Facility Coordinator
Michelle has been building websites for 30 years on more platforms than she can count. Michelle is an entrepreneur of 25 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 understands that a website can’t just be a pretty thing. It has to communicate your important information quickly and clearly to be effective!
Plus:
Frael Reinoso Moreta who brings experience in industrial design, prototyping, web design, and owns his own photography business. Frael is offering entrepreneur classes and support in Spanish.
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