Following on from the last task, you are now going to create your own web pages using the University’s Google apps
Task – To create a small website on a topic of your own interest
- From the intranet, click on the University of Westminster Google apps link and sign in to reach the home page
- Click on the sites link, then create new site button
- Choose a name for your site, the example below shows the name Alice’s French Grammar
- Now choose a theme, which will dictate the layout and colours of your site (you can change these later if they don’t work out)
Creating new pages for your website
- Create additional pages at the top level by clicking on the create page button
- Now set navigation options so that the navigation is carried out automatically
- Create and name another new page at set this at the top level of the hierarchy
- Create a third new page and nest this beneath one of the existing pages – check the navigation panel to see how this is presented
Embedding video in your website
- Click on the HTML view of the editor
- Open a new tab and go to YouTube and search for a short video relevant to your website
- Copy the embedded code from the YouTube page to the html editor view of your web page
Adding an RSS feed
- Add a new page at top level called news
- Now go to Insert>More gadgets and search for BBC RSS news
Adding gadgets
- As with Thing #1 you can add gadgets from the Google apps menu
- Share the link to your website with other 23 Things participants