Research Guides: ENGL110 class page: Websites

Creating Your Website

Select your website design platform:

Google Sites - Free with a Google account and integrated with all of Google’s products. Anything from your Google drive, YouTube, images from Google (which are under creative commons) and so much more. This is the easiest platform to use to make a website and best for students with little design or web development experience. The biggest complaint about Google Sites is every site looks the exact same.
Wordpress - UD has a partnership with Wordpress which allows anyone to make a free website. This is open source and very customizable which makes it great to build a professional site.
Weebly - An easy alternative to Google Sites. While not as easy, intuitive or “clean” as Google Sites, it does allow for more customization and functions than Google Sites. People can customize the layout and look of their website changing the core function yet still allows the modality of google sites. So if you want some variety in layouts, this is a great alternative to the beginner website designer.

Creative Commons Image Search
Search for Creative Commons licensed images through a variety of sites, including Google Images, Flickr, and Wikimedia Commons, and use the content in your own multimedia projects.
Unsplash
Free, high resolution images that do not require permission to use. Attribution is not required but encouraged.
Google Images
On the results page, go to tools > usage rights and select different licenses.
Pixabay
Pixabay has images, video, illustrations and vector graphics that are made available under the Pixabay license. You can use the content for free, for commerical and non-commerical projects, and attribution is not required, but encouraged.
Noun Project
Over a million curated icons; available under Creative Commons attribution license.
Disabled and Here collection
This collection is a disability-led effort to provide free and inclusive stock photos shot from our own perspective, featuring disabled BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) across the Pacific Northwest.
Flaticon
Free vector icons; attribution required.

Graphic Design guide
UD Library guide on graphic design principles and resources.
Adobe Color CC
Includes a color wheel for generating color schemes; can choose from different types of schemes, including analogous, monochromatic, complementary, and more.
Accessible Colors
Accessibility is an important consideration in design; this site lets you know if your text and background colors create a contrast ratio that meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
Google Fonts
Extensive catalog of open-source designer web fonts.