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Project: An Events Directory

We will start by creating a simple events directory to begin with to introduce you to Pory and Airtable and some of their features.

You’ll learn how to


What you will need

A Pory account
An Airtable account

Lesson 1: Introduction to Pory

Pory is similar to Softr with a little less flexibility. It allows users to create stunning web apps without coding. By using airtable as a database, users can develop interesting products with little experience.
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Lesson 2: Introduction to Airtable



Lesson 3: Getting Started

Once signed up select “create new site”
Then select the “Conferences for Startups” template and click next
Give the new site a name

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Lesson 4: Editing Blocks

You’ll be provided a header block by default. To edit this block hover over the header and click edit block.
Change the heading and paragraph text to something of your choosing the select update content.
With the header block still selected, choose background.
Search for an image, select it, then select update content.

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Lesson 5: Setting up Airtable

In a new tab, create and log into your Airtable account
Return back to your Pory tab and at the top of block below the header you will find a “set up Airtable” button.
On the sidebar popup, select I don’t have my own base.
Select copy template
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This should automatically open Airtable and request for you to save the template in a workspace. Select your workspace and click add base.
Return back to the Pory tab and select next
For the base select “Pory Events Template”, for the main table select site-content and for the filters table select filters then select save
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Lesson 6: Adding a new block

At the top of the screen select “add UI block”
Select footer then select the first option
Click and drag the footer to the bottom of the page
Select the footer and select “Edit Block”
Change the paragraph text to something of your choosing and select update content

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Lesson 7: Publishing your site

Select publish changes at the top of your page
Select view site and give your site a subdomain then select create domain
Select view site

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