The First Fear You'll Happily Abandon
How To Do It
You will have your own website in less than 15 minutes if you follow these simple steps.
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NOTE: These instructions apply to http://mystrikingly.com.
Other platforms require a slightly different procedure.
STEP #1: REGISTER yourself
Go To http://mystrikingly.com. On this page, enter your first name, your real Email address, and a Password. Remember your Password! When you click on the green 'GET STARTED' button, they send you a confirmation Email that you click on to begin your LOGIN.
NOTE: Last year they changed their name from Strikingly.com to Mystrikingly.com. We don't know why. Use Mystrikingly.com and everything works fine.
STEP #2: CLICK LOGIN
Go to the upper right-hand corner of the screen and click on the LOGIN button.
STEP #3: LOGIN
On the LOG IN page, type in your Email and Password in the appropriate boxes, then hit LOG IN.
NOTE: We DO NOT recommend that you LOG IN with Facebook or LinkedIn because, if you do so, you automatically give huge corporations access to your database of friends and contacts to send spam to. Not a good idea.
STEP #4: SELECT TEMPLATE
You are now logged into your new Mystrikingly.com account.
By clicking on DASHBOARD they list all the Websites you have already made at Mystrikingly.com. If you don't have any yet, they will suggest that you 'Select a Template to get started!"
Page down and you can look at the 60 or more Template styles you can choose from. All of them work. Some of them have more features to choose from than others.
One of the styles I have used a lot is 'Hill Crest'. I will use that Template to introduce you to a couple of features you can choose from to set up the look and feel of your Website. Choose whichever Template you want.
STEP #5: Click 'SETTINGS'
This is the 'Hill Crest' Template as you first see it, with the background photo of the pool and house overlooking the city.
'Hill Crest' Template is now ready for customizing into your own Website.
To begin, click on the SETTINGS button in the upper left corner of the screen.
STEP #6: Enter Website Name
In the SETTINGS screen, click on the purple DOMAINS button.
In the center of the DOMAIN page you can find a box to type in your unique MyStrikingly.com URL. It says:
http://site-1751__.mystrikingly.com
followed by the green UPDATE button.
This WEBNAME space is originally filled in with numbers.
In that box you can delete the numbers and enter any WEBNAME you want. Then the URL for your Website will be:
http://WEBNAME.mystrikingly.com
REMEMBER: After you type in your preferred WEBNAME be sure to click the green UPDATE button or your changes will be lost.
If your preferred name is already taken, they will tell you and you will need to enter a different name.
STEP #7: Enter BASIC INFO
Now click on the BASIC INFO button and type in your approved WEBNAME into the SITE TITLE box.
Next, click on the CATEGORY panel and choose the style of website you are making from the drop-down menu. I usually select EVENT/ CAMPAIGN.
Next (important), fill in the SITE DESCRIPTION. Search Engines will look at your SITE DESCRIPTION to find your Website on Google. The more clear and precise your Key Words are in your SITE DESCRIPTION, the easier your Website will be found when someone searches. Use the words anyone might search on to find what you are into.
Next, go to the SOCIAL SHARE IMAGE section, and click on the blue letters to UPLOAD YOUR IMAGE. Your IMAGE should be some kind of logo, 200x200 dots wide in .jpg format. Your FAVICOM (the image that shows up in the navigation bar when someone finds your Website) should be small: 16x16 dots in .png format. If making your SOCIAL SHARE IMAGES confuses you, ask some Millennial to help you do it. They can make these things in their sleep.
REMEMBER: SAVE YOUR WORK by clicking the green SAVE button BEFORE YOU LEAVE THIS PAGE or your changes will be lost.
STEP #8: Click on 'BACK TO SITE DESIGN'
In the upper left corner of the screen find and click on the BACK TO SITE DESIGN button.
This will close the SETTINGS windows and let you begin building the rest of your Website.
STEP #9: Click on 'BACKGROUND'
Click on the BACKGROUND button in the upper-right corner of the screen. A drop-down menu gives you various options to choose from.
For example, if you click on UPLOAD IMAGE then you can use either MyStrikingly's free Library of background photos which are offered to you, or you can upload your own image from your own computer.
In this case, I previously purchased this image of two excited women staring at a computer screen for 2€ through my account at http://123rf.com. I downloaded the photo, edited it, and then uploaded it to be the background image for this 'Make Your Website' website.
After you set up your BACKGROUND as you want it, click the green SAVE button.
You can also replace the logo in the upper left corner with your logo, and change the page name in the box to your WEBNAME.
STEP #10: PUBLISH Your Website !
It is wise to get in the habit of every few minutes publishing your changes to save them.
Go to the lower left corner of your screen and click on the PUBLISH button.
The first time you publish a Website, a special window appears for you to confirm that you want your website PUBLISHED.
After that the PUBLISHING is simpler.
VOILA!
You have a Website! Time to celebrate.
STEP #11: Options
The MyStrikingly.com Website builder platform is versatile and forgiving. Also, their online helpers are top class. (To get HELP just click on the circular purple (?) symbol in the lower right corner of your screen and some cheerful person will come chat with you in a couple minutes.
To add further sections to your Website, click on the green ADD NEW SECTION in the left menu at the bottom. A menu of different kinds of sections you can add opens up. Click on whatever you want to add in for photos, lists, documents, a store, contact info, etc.
You can reposition any section in your Website by click and dragging it up or down in the left column.
You can re-title each section to customize your MENU.
You can even change your MENU format, for example, from being at the top to being on the left side of your Website. To do this, click on the STYLES button in the upper left corner of the page.
STEP #12: STYLES
Clicking on the STYLES button vanishes the left column to the left and a new menu appears. It shows:
< BACK TO SITE DESIGN
CHANGE TEMPLATE > (Yes! You can switch to another template any time if you change your mind!)
COLOR SCHEME >
FONTS >
HEADERS & NAVIGATION >
SECTIONS >
BUTTONS >
TEXT SIZE & COLOR >
ANIMATIONS >
Each of these buttons opens its own drop-down menu of new options.
To move your MENU from the top of your Website to the left side, click on the HEADERS & NAVIGATION button.
STEP #13: SIDE MENU
Clicking on HEADERS & NAVIGATION opens up a drop-down menu, where you can click on LAYOUT.A new menu opens up to the right showing 6 different options for HEADER & NAVIGATION layouts.The highlighted option is where your MENU currently is (TOP BAR).To move your MENU to the left side of your Website, click on LEFT SIDEBAR.STEP #14: PLAY TIME
Then your MENU will stay on the left side of your Website.Close the drop-down menu.Click on BACK TO SITE DESIGN, and keep playing around with your Website until it is safe enough to try and good enough for now.Almost any mistake you make can be undone by a click of the left-facing 'un-do-it' arrow at the top left corner of your screen.Don't you wish life was like this?Ooops! Life IS like this! Simply ask for a Do-Over! Then try again.Experiments
What did you think? That this was only theoretical? No way!
Make Your Personal Website
Matrix Code MAKEYOUR.01
Whether this is your first website, or your hundred and first website, if you make your personal website, you get 3 Matrix Points. You can accumulate your Matrix Points at StartOver.xyz.
NOTE: If any of your Websites announce that one of your context sources is Possibility Management, and you have an active link back to http://possibilitymanagement.org, then please tell us (clinton at nextculture dot org) and we would be honored to show your website at http://possibilitymanagers.org!
Make Your Gameworld Website
Matrix Code MAKEYOUR.02
You don't change things by fighting against the existing gameworlds. You change things by building new gameworlds that make the existing gameworlds irrelevant.
This Experiment starts when you go do deep anger work.
Rage Club is excellent for doing deep anger work.
So is 3.3.3. Exercise.
Possibility Team is another safe place for clear, transformative rage.
The point is, the things on Earth that you are angry about not finding them how they should be, are the things you came here to build.
Without thinking about it, make a website NOW about how you want things to be. It does not take very long to start this. Start it and it is halfway done.
Your new website is the beginning of a gameworld that creates things the way you want them to be, the way it would seem right to you to have them.
The job you see to do is your job. Build the website of the gameworld that makes things right in your mind. Eventually you can add a Codex and Rules Of Engagement, and show how your gameworld networks into other gameworlds, including the gameworlds of Possibility Management.
When your website is up, you have planted a flag in the Earth about what is possible. You have taken a stand about what matters to you, at least enough of a stand to build the website.
This totem is then something that other people can see, and feel, and imagine, and gather around. They can begin to taste how it could be because you showed them. Your vision provides enough energy to breathe things to life in someone else's world, perhaps someone you don't even know yet.
Make your website one that you would want to find already made, a website that offers invitations that you would feel joyful to accept. Invite people into your gameworld where they get to do things that make their life meaningful.
Thank you for doing this Experiment.
Navigate Space for Someone Else To Make Their Website
Matrix Code MAKEYOUR.03
Our lives are full and busy.
Trying new things takes energy and time.
Significant amounts of fear were instilled into us during school, fear of being criticized, embarrassed, judged, ridiculed, blamed, made fun of... so many ways to look bad.
The typical strategy is: If I don't try anything new I cannot make a mistake.
Think how much life this cuts us off from. Too much. So much potential, connection, and creation power is lost to these fears.
What if you take a stand to hold a safe space for someone you know (or even someone you don't know so well) to step forward and express their inner world, their delight, their longings, their full creative potential? Would you do that? Would you have wished that someone would do that for you?
This is about 'paying it forward'. That means you invest in the future of someone so they invest in the future of someone else. Imagine the ripple effect!
This Experiment is to enthusiastically support someone else to make their own Personal or Gameworld Website. Stick with them until they catch fire and take over exploring what else they can share or give to others on their new Website.
