GENERAL | BUILD | DESIGN | PAGES | SETTINGS | BLOG | MORE
Welcome to the General page. Here you'll find general editing tips. The Build, Design, Pages, & Settings tabs above refer to the blue editing tabs at the top of your Weebly screen. On this General page, you'll find features not listed within those blue editing tabs:
START HERE HOSTING & DOMAIN EXPLANATION HOW TO LOG IN HOW TO EDIT & PUBLISH NO UNDO BUTTON HOW TO SAVE EDITING TABS COLUMNS COPY & PASTE, OR DELETE AN ELEMENT MULTIPLE SITES ON ONE ACCOUNT SUPPORT HELP WEEBLY'S BEGINNER GUIDE |
Hosting | Domain | Website
Website = a house you built
Hosting = the land (or space in this case) on which you set the house
Domain Name = the flag (or website name) saying the house is yours
All 3 can be bought through separate companies, or all through one. Your house (website) was built with Weebly, your land (hosting) was bought from Weebly, and your flag (domain) was bought from GoDaddy
Log In
Log into Weebly.com using your username and password listed on your Personal Reference Sheet
Click your site title or Edit:
Website = a house you built
Hosting = the land (or space in this case) on which you set the house
Domain Name = the flag (or website name) saying the house is yours
All 3 can be bought through separate companies, or all through one. Your house (website) was built with Weebly, your land (hosting) was bought from Weebly, and your flag (domain) was bought from GoDaddy
Log In
Log into Weebly.com using your username and password listed on your Personal Reference Sheet
Click your site title or Edit:
Editing & Publish
Logging into your Weebly account gives you access to the “backstage” version of your site. You can edit without anyone seeing what you’re doing. When you click the orange Publish button in the upper right hand corner, your viewers will see the newest changes in the “onstage” version of your site. If your changes don't appear after you hit the Publish button, your browser may be showing you the older version of the site. Simply click the refresh button to reload the new site.
Here is a link to Weebly's How to Publish Your Site
Undo
Important: There is no “Back” or “Undo” button, except when writing text.
Here is a link to Weebly's How to Undo a Change
How to Save
There are rarely Save buttons in Weebly because your work is saved when you click outside of the element you worked on. For example, if you are writing text. Click any part of the space outside of the Text element and your work will be saved.
Editing Tabs
The blue tabs at the top of the page lead you to editing tools:
Build has elements to drag and drop onto the page like text, images, videos, etc. If you need an element, look under the five options to find it: Basic, Structure, Media, Commerce, and More
Design has the template for editing and the template for publishing.
Pages gives you access to your site pages to edit, add, or delete them.
Store lets you build a store on your site if you have a Pro Account.
Editors lets you let others edit the site.
Settings houses your domain name, site title, favicon, site password (to password-protect pages), and search engine optimization.
Columns
To create a column, simply drag and drop elements beside one another and the columns are automatically created. You can make as many columns as you'd like.
To adjust the width of a column, drag the blue line that divides two columns. To help keep column width consistent between pages there is an automatic grid system to which all columns snap. If you want to break free of this grid, just hold "Shift" while you drag the column divider line and you can drag it wherever you like.
Here is a link to Weebly's How to Use Columns
Here is a link to Weebly's How to Copy or Move a Set of Columns
Copy & Paste, or Delete an Element
To copy and paste an existing element from one page to another, click the element to make its outer box appear.
Click the upper left BLUE arrow. Click COPY TO first, unless you want to MOVE it entirely (see below). Scroll through the list of site pages and click the page where you’d like to add the element. Adjust the element’s placement on the new page.
To move an existing element from one page to another, click the element to make its outer box appear. Click the upper left BLUE arrow. Click MOVE first, unless you want to COPY & PASTE (see above). Scroll through the list of site pages and click the page where you’d like to add the element. Adjust the element’s placement on the new page.
To delete the element, click the element to make its outer box appear. Click the upper right BLUE X.
Multiple Sites
You can have up to ten sites on one account. The hosting is included in the cost for the first site hosting you bought. You would only need to purchase domain names for each new site, or use Weebly's free domain option that ends in .weebly.com. To add a site, click Add Site on the User Home Page after you log in. Have fun!
Contact Weebly for Support Help
Weebly is available via phone, live chat or support ticket seven days a week, Monday through Friday 5am-5pm PST and weekends 4am-7pm PST. The Weebly staff is friendly and helpful and contacting them is free! You can reach them at 1-844-493-3259 or by clicking this link.
Weebly's Beginner Guide Video
This is a free, one hour training session recorded by Richard, the Director of Education at Weebly. You can also register for an upcoming live presentation by clicking here. This video is almost exactly like the live presentation though, I think the only difference is a Q & A at the end of the live presentation.
Click the blue X and the Delete option pops up