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Create Your Own Webpage
Today’s Agenda
• Group activity
• Wordpress – Photos– Widgets– Header– Theme
• Prepare to share sites w/small group Wednesday
Your Assignment…
• Get in groups, and 1 person opens a Word document to make a list while the other 1-2 research topics online.
• Find 5 tips to share with the class
• Write the tips in your word document, copy and paste the URLs where you get these tips from into your Word document.
• We will present your findings to the class
Top 5 Tips
• Group 1: Privacy on the web
• Group 2: Good site design
• Group 3: Search engine optimization (SEO)
• Group 4: How to write for web sites
• Group 5: How can I protect my content and images?
• Be ready to share with the class!
Log in to Wordpress
• Go to Wordpress.com, login & Password you created yesterday in upper left hand corner
• My Blogs <Name of the Blog you created yesterday> Dashboard
• Edit or Create a new post or page– Click “Show Kitchen Sink” button to see all options,
– Add formatting, bold, underline, etc. – Work on content
Add Images
• Drag and drop, or select from your thumb drive
• Click From URL tab and paste in the URL for the image (less reliable)
• Use Media Library to get to images you already uploaded
Other stuff
• Add a poll—next to the add image button
• Make a link—highlight what you want to link, then click the insert/edit link button:
• Experiment with other buttons to see what you can do!
Sidebar Widgets
• Appearance Widgets (on your sidebar)– Drag and drop existing widgets – i.e. your twitter
feed, a grid of posts, etc.
• Drag Text over to “Primary Widget Area” – Title it About Me – Write a paragraph about yourself.– Save
Sidebar widgets
• Other widgets you might like:– Twitter, Flickr – connect your Twitter/Flickr/whatever
to your Wordpress account & make it display – Image – display an image on the sidebar all the
time– Blog subscriptions – sign up to get notified of new
posts
Appearance
• Change Header: Appearance Header – Photoshop or other programs: create a custom
image to go here (your theme will tell you the size needed)
– Select from the default images
Plug-ins
• Not available w/free Wordpress.com site– Wordpress.org– GoDaddy hosting w/Wordpress installed
• Customize additional functionality – not available on free hosted wordpress.com– Anything you can imagine:– Share on Facebook– Translate– Auto signature etc
Themes (Layout, design)
• Themes: Appearance Themes – Displays random themes, click refresh for more
random themes – Look at Popular themes – Feature Filter to make sure you can do what you
want w/new theme – Preview theme, if you like it, click Activate to
change your blog’s theme
Rest of Class
• Work on your sites—either Wordpress or HTML
• Tomorrow is Wednesday, 2nd to last day!– Share sites w/small groups & fine tune– Start presenting individual sites to the class– Be ready to offer constructive feedback to your
peers!