Research Guides: ENGL110 class page: Websites

Creating Your Website

Select your website design platform:

WordPress

UD offers WordPress hosting through CampusPress and students, faculty and staff are able to create a personal WordPress site. You have access to certain themes and add-on tools provided by UD. WordPress offers the most customization among the tools listed here.

WordPress at UD
The first time you log in to WordPress, a personal account will be created for you. You’ll see a gray bar across the top of the page. On the far left of this bar, click Log In. You will be directed to CAS to log in with your UDelNet ID and prompted to complete Two-Factor Authentication (2FA).

Google Sites

Create a Google Site using your UD student account. Easily include anything from your Google drive, YouTube, Google images and much more. This is a good option for those looking to make simple sites or portfolios without any prior web design experience.

Google Sites
Free with a Google account and integrated with all of Google’s products. Add anything from your Google drive, YouTube, images 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.

A Guide to Creating a Google Site [PDF]
A quick how-to guide for getting started with a Google Site

Weebly

An alternative to Google Sites that allows for more customization options within an easy-to-use interface.

Weebly
Free website/blog builder with customizable templates and easy-to-use tools. Requires an account and free basic plan available.

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.

ENGL110 class page

Creating Your Website

Select your website design platform:

WordPress

Google Sites

Weebly

General Resources

Google Sites

Weebly

WordPress