Week 7: Building a Website

Over the last few weeks in class we spent time building a website with a group using either wix or weebly two different website building sites. 

When we first started this assignment we spent some time looking through both the sites, playing around with them to see, which one we liked better and to help us decide the one we would use to build our own site.  I decided to start with wix purely because their site looked better to me upon first glance.  From what I gathered in the ten minutes of using wix was that it wasn't exactly user friendly.  I saw the cool things that it could do, but I couldn't figure out how to use them.  At the same time I was slightly intrigued to learn because the template sites that they had were so well done.  I wanted mine to look as good as theirs did. 

After spending some time playing with these sited individually we came together to discuss as a group and share what we thought about the two sites.  A member of our group showed us around the weebly site first.  After playing around with wix for a while weebly seemed very simplistic and user friendly.  You could put together a very basic but professional looking site with out much hassle.  That is why we choose to go with weebly. 

For my portion of the website I was doing drinks.  I found weebly extremly easy to use.  There is not a lot of glitz, glamour, and flash to it, but it certainly gets the job done.  The template sites are somewhat basic, but classic and professional looking.  I can not stress how easy to use the site was.  Once we decided on a template as a group we went straight to building our individual pages.  I had the setup of my page done within an hour and than from there I just had to fill in the content and add videos and other extras.  I decided to link the website of what I was talking about with the picture, so you could just click on the picture and it would take you directly to the site.  It was easy to do and added a whole other dimension to the site. 

You can see the finished product of our site here.  http://bellinghambucketlist.weebly.com/.  

After seeing everyone elses finished products in class.  It was clear to see how much awesome stuff you could do using either of these sites and the extent of options they both offered.  Overall I feel like if you want do something fancier that looks cooler and hipper I would go with wix, but if you want something simple and proffessional I would go with weebly. 

Here are video for both:

Wix:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45O5xjFKOEE

Weebly:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOW7ALVVVUc