BUILD & PUBLISH A WEBSITE Introduction. WORDPRESS It is a Blogging software, like an online diary...
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BUILD & PUBLISH A WEBSITE Introduction. WORDPRESS It is a Blogging software, like an online diary Take away the Blogging part and it as a simple CMS (Content
WORDPRESS It is a Blogging software, like an online diary Take
away the Blogging part and it as a simple CMS (Content Management
System)
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WHY WORDPRESS? It is Easy to use It is Popular It is Free
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WHAT SHOULD YOU PAY FOR? Web Hosting Domain name If you had to
spend money, do another short course, or pay for Photographs
Possibly after a year you may consider paying for a custom
theme.
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STARTING Holmesglen network (you dont do this at home) Go to:
http://videodrome.com.au then navigate to: Short courses / Build
and Publish a Website
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YOUR SITE Here you will see a list of names. Click on the site
next to your name. You can access this page from anywhere!
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DETAILS Name the site Create a User name Create a password Give
an email address Indicate if you want the site indexed
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CREATE YOUR SITE It can be anything that you want You can make
something up, follow the instructor or Base it on the site that you
want to create
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THESE ARE CHANGEABLE You can change all of these setting from
within the software. Provided you have the username and password to
get into the software
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REMEMBER! Please write down your username and password If you
forget them, I cannot help you
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TWO INTERFACES There are two ways to access your website, The
public view The administration back end
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ADMIN INTERFACE Only you can access the admin interface Not the
public, unless you give them your password Add the file:
/wp-admin.php To get to the login page, eg mysite.com.au
/wp-admin.php
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LOG IN Type your username and password in If you have forgotten
your username, But did use a real email, then you can use the Lost
your password? link to have a reset link emailed to youLost your
password?
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WEB PAGES 80% if not more of your job in putting together your
website will be creating pages. Pages and linking them and putting
the text, images, videos, etc is what building a web site is all
about To start, navigate to Page > All Pages
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THIS WEEK We will do a bunch of Pages And then we will change
the Theme. We should have time to look at Adding Images Hopefully
adding hyperlinks It is unlikely that we will get onto looking at
the Settings
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NEXT WEEK We will recap this weeks creating pages, and look at:
Settings (what you should do before you start) Installing more
Themes Custom Menus Themes Plugins
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THEORY This week or next we will also talk about: Buying a
domain name Web hosting The easiest way to install Wordress Using
Google Anayltics How the Google search works