Join us at Berks LaunchBox for a beginner’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 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
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 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 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. He will help expand our makerspace classes on Tuesday evenings to include Spanish programming and web building support!
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Tuesday, August 29: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. – free class
Please remember to bring a flash drive with your logo (if you have one) and a couple of digital photos for practice purposes. Additionally, 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.
Limited seats.
REGISTER TODAY!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 the flat parking lot side. We are the first suite on the left (105) once you come in the main entrance.
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.
We will have 10 laptops to borrow on a first come first serve basis. Please let us know if you want to use one and we will have it ready for you. 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
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