Build Your Own Wordpress Website
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!
Level: No experience necessary
Time: 4 two hour sessions
Location: Online workshop
8 Hours of Wordpress Training From Experienced Trainer
Have you ever went to 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.
Get hands-on training how to setup Wordpress, customize it and how content choices affect SEO. Your questions get answered as you build your own Wordpress site.
Dates:
- Session 1: Tuesday February 2nd, 2010 6pm – 8pm CST
- Session 2: Tuesday February 9th, 2010 6pm – 8pm CST
- Session 3: Tuesday February 16th, 2010 6pm – 8pm CST
- Session 4: Tuesday February 23rd, 2010 6pm – 8pm CST
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
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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 and will be presenting at Wordcamp Atlanta, Wordcamp Boston and SXSW in March 2010!
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 power blogger plugins
- SEO and content strategy
- Monetizing your blog
“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!
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