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Now that we have our basic homepage created, let’s add content.

At the top of the left menu, press the plus sign to add more pages/content to your website. The menu gives a few choices including shop, Instagram, blank, gift cards, gallery, and several more. If you’re just starting and don’t know what to have on your site, these suggestions are great.

For now, we’ll start with blank and build from the start

Select blank and name the page. This will be the title on the navigation menu. Once you name it, the title will appear at the top of your preview page. Be sure you love it. (You can change it later, but it’s easier to go with a good one to start.) You will find the same menu on the left as on your home page. But as this page has nothing on it, we need to add all the elements—header, footer, and body.

You can turn off the main banner from your home page to keep the pages unique, but keep the header for navigation.

Click on the Add Sections at the bottom of the menu. Again, since this is a Square product, the software prompts you to create a store page. One list of items to add focus on selling. These elements include featured items, featured categories, donations, events, memberships, etc. Choose which might work with the title you created for the page.

Below that are more sections to add. These are categorized as Organize, Inform, and Communicate. Each submenu has different choices, such as text and image, image gallery, newsletter sign-up, video, about, etc. Since I’m creating an author site, I’m going to play with text and image first.

Under text and image are several layouts to choose from. You can play with alignment, style, and number of images. Press Done when you find one you like. Then on the preview screen, click on the element to edit it. The left menu will now say Content. Click on the down arrow to upload images, edit text, and add a button. You can add or remove any of these by opening or closing the sliders. Click on each one and add, edit, and link as necessary.

When adding images, you may have to go back into it to edit for size. Open the picture again, click on Image and then Edit. Here you can zoom in and out, change the ratio and shape. Next, add a link to the image if this is an item that needs to go to another page or a product page. Add text for SEO (search engine optimization) to help people find your page. When finished, press the Done button at the top of the page.

Sections are easy to move on your page. Go back to the Page menu. Check by the content on the left menu. The page’s name should be on the top, followed by a list of all the pieces. Each element will have a trash can and six dots when you hover the mouse over it. Click on the three dots to move or duplicate. Or you can click and drag the element to the new location. The preview will show the shift.

Weebly allows you to easily edit items. You can also turn on and off features without deleting them. If you need to edit, click on the gear. This menu allows you to reset your home page to another one, delete, or duplicate pages.

Not every page needs to be on your navigation bar. When creating a new page, you can uncheck the box that says Add Page to Navigation. It won’t appear at the top of the page. To add it later, go to the Home page, then Header, then Navigation and Navigation links. Click Add Links and choose the page.

Again, there is much more to Weebly. You can add shops, payments, and stories (read that as blog). We could spend so much more time with this one but…

Next week, we will talk about ways Weebly can help authors succeed.