In the previous step, you created all the pages your website should have without stopping to add contents to each. In this step, we're going to show you how to choose the right header type (layout) for created pages and add contents to those pages.
Choosing The Right Header Type
What's an header type?
An header type also know as page layout is the style and appearance of a theme needed to build contents of a web page. Depending on the types of contents of a website (kinds of pages a website has), an header type could be plain, multiple columns, with left or right sidebar, with both left and right sidebars, etc. Choosing the right header type: If for example you want to build reviews page for your website so that you can show customers review, you need a kind of page style that has testimonial boxes that you can click to add customer quote and his/her name and sometimes ratings. For this, you're not going to choose a header type meant for homepage, blog page, store page, etc., you need to choose an header type meant for testimonials (reviews). Our weebly themes come with multiple header types to choose from. Most themes have header types for home page, blog page, testimonials page, pricing page, etc. Our themes also includes plain (do it yourself) header types so that if you don't like any of our pre-defined header types, you get to make your styles and build contents of your website exactly as you see fit. |
Below video [from 0:07] shows how to select header type for a page. Start watching from 0:07 to jump straight to header type part.
Add Contents To Pages
The first page you want to build is the home page. Within your website editor, you can reach the homepage in two ways:
- Website Menu: If you are on another page, you can always go back to the homepage by clicking on the home link.
- Pages Tab: This is one sure way to always get back to the homepage. While on the editor, you might be on pages like the SPLASH page that doesn't show website menu, you can click on PAGES and select any page. Also, some themes might have hamburger (toggle) menu style which doesn't show menu on website editor, in this cases, the only way to access your pages is via the PAGES tab.
To build the homepage, you need to select the kind of header type you want. All our weebly themes come with pre-designed header types for homepages. Follow below instructions to choose header types:
- Click PAGES
- Click the page you want to choose header type for (e.g Home)
- Below PAGE NAME, click the dropdown under Header Type to select or try different header types.
Now that you have the selected an header type that you want, you can now start adding contents to that page. If you want your website to look exactly like the demo website of the theme you purchased, the best way to achieve this is to use the demo website as a reference when building contents of your own website. Add images where there are images, add video where there's video, add form where there's form, etc.
If you need us to make your website look exactly like the demo so that you can click to edit with your own contents, we have a service that does that. Click here to request that service.
If you need us to make your website look exactly like the demo so that you can click to edit with your own contents, we have a service that does that. Click here to request that service.
To add any kind of content to your website, you must be on the BUILD tab. All the elements you need to add contents such as: texts, image, gallery, slideshow, contact form, map, button, sections, video, etc. are all located on the build tab. Therefore, anytime you wish to add contents, you must click the build tab to see and use those elements.
Above video also shows how to build contents of a web page. We have more videos here that shows how to build contents of different aspect of a website.
Above video also shows how to build contents of a web page. We have more videos here that shows how to build contents of different aspect of a website.