28 Days to Your First WordPress Site Independent Study Workshop

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You likely know it as a blogging platform, but WordPress has evolved into a full content management system and has been embraced by developers and designers all over the world. Building your website on WordPress can be simple and quick, or it can push the limits of your creativity through thousands of plugins, themes and widgets available for use with the system. Join Jesse Friedman on a journey to create your first WordPress site. In just 28 days, you’ll completely learn WordPress—everything about server requirements and hosting, WordPress Design and customization, resources available inside and outside of the WordPress community, functionality—and at the end you’ll have a site of your own.

In this course you’ll learn:

• About creating your first website in WordPress
• Server requirements and hosting
• Selecting themes and functionality
• Choosing the right settings

Who should take this course:

• New web designers
• Marketing professionals
• Entrepreneurs

Recommended reading material:

• The Web Designers Handbook by Patrick McNeil
• 21 Days to Your First WordPress Blog by Jesse Friedman

Prerequisites (or comparable experience)

• Principles of Web Design
• Principles of HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Course outline

About the Instructor: Jesse Friedman is an experienced Web Developer, Professor at Johnson & Wales University and the Director of Web Development for Neal Advertising. When Jesse isn’t working he’s enjoying life with his family in Rhode Island. Look for Jesse’s book on WordPress coming out Aug 2012 by New Riders under their “Voices that Matter” series.