Training: Build Your Own Wordpress Website

June 8th, 2010 in Featured by Adria @freshworkshops

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Have you been thinking about a Wordpress blog?

Want to build a website but don’t know where to start?

Many people have heard that Wordpress can be used to create beautiful websites but where do you start?

Forget difficult programming languages!

Build your own website today with Wordpress!

Level: 101, No experience necessary
Time: (4) two hour sessions
Location: Online

NEW! Recorded Training Now Available!

Build Your Own Wordpress Website 2.9.1

Freshworkshops is happy to announce that recorded training is now available anytime! Join me as I guide a small group of people through Wordpress. This recording was made in February, 2010 so you don’t have to worry about old instructions! Cost: $45

This Workshop Series Will Show You How To:

Register a domain name
Sign up for website hosting
Download website editing tools
Install Wordpress
Configure Wordpress
Manage your cPanel account
Add powerful plugins to your Wordpress site
Use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and content strategy to build traffic
Monetize your blog with Ecommerce

8 Hours of Wordpress Training From Experienced Trainer

Have you ever attended a bootcamp and felt the information was going too fast?

Our Wordpress training gives you time to learn. No one day bootcamps with 50 people in the room. We meet for 4 weeks in row, in small groups of 12 so you have time to “digest” this new Wordpress information.

This hands-on training will teach you how to setup and customize Wordpress, as well as show you [demonstrate] how content choices affect SEO. Your questions get answered as you build your own Wordpress site.

Dates:

Session 1: Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 5pm – 7pm Pacific Time Zone
Session 2: Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 5pm – 7pm Pacific Time Zone
Session 3: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 5pm – 7pm Pacific Time Zone
Session 4: Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 5pm – 7pm Pacific Time Zone

Includes:

Recording of each 2 hour session
Wordpress 101 Guide How To Setup Wordpress
Over 50 links to resources, blogs and tutorials to get you started with Wordpress
AND
1 Month of Unlimited Access to Adria Richards’s brain on anything Wordpress See Twitter, Wordpress TV, YouTube

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About Your Instructor

Adria Richards has been using Wordpress since 2006 and has experience in Content Management Systems (CMS) going back to 2003. She will take you though everything you need to get started with a Wordpress self-hosted site.

She has attended Wordcamp Chicago, Blogging While Brown, BlogHer09, Blogalicious, Blogworld Expo, spoke at Wordcamp NYC, Wordcamp Atlanta and Wordcamp Boston plus she’ll be speaking at SXSW in March, BlogHer in August and Blogalicious on October 2010!

“This DIY Series was info-packed and detail orientated. Spreading
it out over a few weeks helped to not suffer information overload. I
enjoyed hearing other people’s questions too, as they brought up
questions I had not thought of at the time.

While website
creation using WordPress is achievable for the novice, I think it would
have taken many hours and not have the customized results participating
in your workshop provided.

I encourage anyone wanting to create their own website to save time and frustration and take this workshop.”

Jacque, JacqueBona.com

You Will Learn:

Why websites are important to business
3 Important parts of a website
What is SEO and why you should care
Your options for building a website
How to select a great memorable domain name
What to look for when selecting a website hosting providers
How to make your website Social Media friendly
How to find and insert photos
How to add videos from YouTube

“She is “techie” to the max. She knows her stuff, but she
speaks English and has a certain amount of respect for those she is
speaking to. Many techies do not. They overwhelm their audience with
tech lingo and do not communicate. Not Adria, she is good at making
technical concepts understandable and organizing the material.
Do I recommend Adria’s workshops to anyone who is wanting to learn
more about technology? Absolutely! I didn’t have a clue about SEO
(Search Engine Optimization) or CMS (Content Management Systems) but
now I feel quite confident about these subjects.”

Janine, Omsah

and Specific to Wordpress:

Full tour of the Wordpress dashboard
How to add themes to your Wordpress Install
How to add plugins to your Wordpress Install
Creating your first post
Creating your first page
Widgets and Sidebars
5 Essential plugins to turn Wordpress into a Website (CMS)
What to look for when buying a Wordpress theme
Discussion of Wordpress Security, Backups, Ecommerce, Upgrades

You’ll Leave With

A brand new website you can update yourself
Exclusive access to Adria via email, Skype and Phone for 1 month
Homework after each session for you to complete on your own time
Dozens of tips and tricks about using Wordpress
List of Links and resources for Wordpress
Better understanding of what websites need to be successful
A sense of relief you don’t have to start from scratch

“While I have worked with a few WordPress installs already, this workshop gave me the opportunity to ask questions and get instant feedback. Adria does a great job of answering questions and showing what is possible.”

Bill, Meet Me Where I Am

Session 1

Register domain names
Signup for website hosting
Why Wordpress?
Amazing blogging platform
Easy to maintain website platform
Wordpress resources
Questions and Answers for 15 minutes

Session 2

Download and Install Wordpress
Download website development tools for Wordpress
Login to Cpanel
Cpanel overview
Benefits of installing Wordpress yourself vs one click installs
FTP upload of Wordpress with Filezilla
Creating a database for Wordpress
Installing Wordpress themes
Tour of Wordpress dashboard
Creating your first post
What is SEO and why you should care
Questions and Answers for 15 minutes

Session 3

Review of Session 2
Creating your first page
Adding your first widget on the sidebar
Adding your first plugin
How to get your site indexed in Google for a ton of traffic
Overview – Why you need Google Analytics on your Wordpress website
5 Essential plugins to turn Wordpress into a Website platform (CMS)
Overview – Email for your Wordpress website with Google Apps
Wordpress Security, Backups and Upgrades
Questions and Answers for 15 minutes

Session 4

Review of session 1, 2 and 3
“Check out your new websites!” Round Robin
Extending Wordpress with Ecommerce
Extending Wordpress with membership programs
Tour of Beautiful Wordpress Websites and what they’re doing right
How to insert video from YouTube
Overview – Amazing photography for your site via Flickr
How to customize your theme more
What To look for when buying Wordpress themes
Questions and Answers for 15 minutes

“I got a good foundation from you; enough for me to finish up the site on my own. I couldn’t be more grateful!”

- Desiree, Envielabs

Previous sites attendees have built:

Didn’t Get Everything The First Time?

If you feel that you didn’t get everything the first time around?
Take the workshop again for free! Just email Adria and let her know you would like to take it again and you’ll be signed up! Easy as that!

More sites people have built: