Build Your Own Wordpress Website: The DIY Series

Have you been thinking about a Wordpress blog?

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

Forget difficult programming languages!

Level: 101 No experience necessary
Time: You attend 4 two hour sessions
Location: Online workshop


Hands-on workshop has a limited class size of 12.

You are guaranteed to get help every step of the way!

8 Hours of Wordpress Training with Adria Richards
Wordpress Blogger and and Technology Consultant!

Adria helps you use Wordpress as a website platform to produce qualified leads and rank well in Google!

Adria has attended Wordcamp Chicago, Blogging While Brown, BlogHer09, Blogalicious, Blogworld Expo and will be speaking at Wordcamp NYC in November!

Dates:

• Tuesday January 5th, 2010 6pm - 8pm CST
• Tuesday January 12th, 2010 6pm - 8pm CST
• Tuesday January 19th, 2010 6pm - 8pm CST
• Tuesday January 26th, 2010 6pm - 8pm CST

• 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

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

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
• Dozens of tips and tricks about using Wordpress
• Better understanding of what websites need to be successful
• A list of essential resources on website resources for business owners
• Resources for Wordpress
• A sense of relief you don't have to start from scratch

Didn't Get Everything The First Time?

If you feel that you didn't get everything the first time, take the workshop again for free!

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

These are a few sites previous people have built:

Your Instructor

Tuesday, January 05, 2010 at 6:00 PM
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 8:00 PM (CT)

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Email: info@freshworkshops.com
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Phone: 612-246-4568
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Instructor

Adria Richards, Organic Technology Consultant

"If you have any questions before the class, feel free to contact me before the class!"

Adria helps business owners generate more revenue in less time. With 10 years of experience and several certifications, Adria offers technical support, website development and training services to clients around the world.

Keep open source free
Supporting open source is important to Fresh Workshops and is in line with the founder's code of ethics. This means we will strive to keep many of these classes free so people can get up to speed on the wonderful world of open source.

Get The Training You Need

Through a combination of free and paid training options, freshworkshops.com will get people up and running with Joomla, Wordpress, Microsoft Office and a variety of computer certification courses.

• Keep your email inbox productive
• Update their websites
• Post blog articles
• Manage images and photos
• Followup with contacts and leads
• Use Microsoft Office effectively
• Learn to use mobile devices
• Use FTP and HTML editing apps
• Understand how computers work
• Select consultants for projects
• Understand Google products
• Track time and invoice
• Understand your website traffic

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