Description:
This is a lecture style workshop.  Students may bring their own laptops to follow along with the instructor, or simply take notes.

If you want an easy, powerful way to update your website often, you want WordPress.  This flexible, highly customizable content management system (CMS) is ideal for blogs, small business websites, online art galleries, and more.

Web developers with a solid grasp of HTML and CSS can install WordPress.org on their web server and edit their website through a sleek online interface.  Thousands of free widgets and themes offer endless customization possibilities, and multiple user types allow clients to update text, pages, and blog posts without disturbing the site's architecture.

This is the first workshop in BDA's WordPress series, designed to get you set up and running in WordPress.org.  We will cover:

• Finding a host
• Installing WordPress (automatic versus manual install)
• Basic Security
• Finding and installing plugins and themes (recommendations)
• Setting WordPress options
• Using Widgets
• Creating a Page and a Post
• Questions and Answers

Please note that WordPress.org is different from WordPress.com.  WordPress.com is only for blogs and non-commercial sites.  BDA's workshops cover WordPress.org


Who Should Take this Workshop?
Web designers who are comfortable building a site with HTML and CSS.  Basic PHP skills are helpful but not required. If you do not know HTML or CSS, consider taking BDA's Getting Started with Dreamweaver and CSS workshop first.

What Should I Take Next?
The next workshop in this series, WordPress - Creating & Managing Content, will teach you how to handle your posts and pages, comments, links, tags, media, and more.  Then you can take WordPress - Customization to learn how to fine-tune every aspect of your site.

Presented as a Lecture-Style Workshop:
Affordable workshops designed to introduce a subject quickly and efficiently. Students can take notes from the instructor's projected computer screen, and/or bring their own computer to follow along.

Who Should Take This:
Solid knowledge of HTML and CSS.

Instructor:
Doug Wray has been working with online information systems since 1984. Starting in science using TeX and LaTeX realtime rendering on Macs progressing to desktop publishing for commercial printing thence into web design. He's used numerous electron-herding methods including HTML and CSS. Sometime in 2001 he broke with convential wisdom and stopped using tables for structure - following in the footsteps of Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman. He now builds websites exclusively with CSS and finds it an exciting and challenging pursuit.

BDA Member Cost: $50.00 ($60.00 after Saturday, February 13, 2010)
Non Member Cost: $70.00 ($80.00 after Saturday, February 13, 2010)
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