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Building Custom WordPress Sites from Scratch

A to Z guide to making feature rich customised websites that use the robust WordPress platform.

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by Infinite Skills

WordPress offers more flexibility for creating personal and professional sites than any other content management system on the market. Now, in this multi-part WordPress training course from InfiniteSkills, you'll learn everything you need to know to create a completely custom site from the ground up, from design, to installation and everyday management.

This highly informative course goes starts with the planning stages, helping you make key decisions and establish a professional wireframe in Adobe Illustrator, before moving through Photoshop for graphic design and onto WordPress itself for installation, configuration and customization with plugins and content. In 114 lessons, you will learn how to design, build and manage a professional web presence, using the latest technologies at your disposal. No other WordPress tutorial series offers such an extensive guide to website creation!

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CHAPTER 1: Site Planning And Wireframing

CHAPTER 2: From Wireframe To Design

CHAPTER 3: Moving The Design To Photoshop

CHAPTER 4: Installing WordPress Locally On The PC And Mac

CHAPTER 5: Getting WordPress Set Up

CHAPTER 6: Building A Custom WordPress Theme

CHAPTER 7: Building The Site's News Feed

CHAPTER 8: Building The Site Pages And Main Menu

CHAPTER 9: Building The Layout's Center Section

CHAPTER 10: Building An Automated Slideshow

CHAPTER 11: Building The Sidebar And Footer

CHAPTER 12: Uploading To A Live Web Server

  • Over 114 lectures and 9 hrs of content!
  • How to install host, and configure a complete WordPress solution for a professional site.
  • How to design a custom WordPress theme using industry standard graphic design tools and creative techniques.
  • How to work with HTML, PHP, and CSS elements of WordPress to have precise control over page layout and site components.
  • How to extend the functionality of any WordPress site with plugins and free tools.
  • Anyone looking for an easy and affordable way to create their own custom website for a business or personal use.
  • Any current WordPress user wanting create a custom theme or learn how to manipulate components and settings for a comprehensive design.
  • Anyone who wants a comprehensive guide to web design that incorporates image manipulation and graphic design.

Instructors

InfiniteSkills.com is a Canadian based company who offer a ever growing range of high quality eLearning solutions that teach using studio quality narrated videos backed-up with practical hands-on examples. The emphasis is on teaching real life skills that are essential in today's commercial environment. 

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  • by Gordon W. Saunders,

    Great course for leading through the process, but needs better index

    Bottom line: the course was a great help in getting into WordPress and creating my first WordPress site. However, you could improve it in the following way: While I loved the course and was able to set up a WordPress site by following the videos sequentially one after another, I've found that in trying to repeat the process or review an area not fully learned, I'm hampered by the lack of a full (and preferably clickable) index. I'm using Firefox (10.0.2) on a Mac (OS X 10.7.3), and on my browser, the only way to find a specific lesson is to scroll down through all the lessons until you think you've found what you want. You don't know, however, because the whole title of each lesson isn't there. It's abbreviated because the column isn't wide enough to accommodate it. Only when you click the lesson and see the full title on the screen do you know what you've got. Perhaps you've made provision for this, but I can't widen the column containing the list of lessons, so it has to be hit or miss. At least the Chapter and lesson numbers at the top of each lesson are a help, but one may still have to scroll down through dozens of lessons to find the one needed. I realize that I could download the entire content and organize/index it any way I wished, but even here an index would help because I don't really need to download every lesson and would like to know the title without actually starting the video. So how about it? Can you make a really good thing even better by improving the index/access? Thanks! By the way, I'm a professor creating a Facilitator's Manual for a blended course, so I'm thinking about all of this stuff as I work. You could lead by example!

  • by Neil Duckmanton,

    Great Wordpress course!

    I liked the wireframing sessions, starting in Illustrator. I've always dived straight into Photoshop but can see the merits of utilising Illustrator first on some, if not all, occasions. The whole session is well broken down into logical chunks and there are some nice helpful tips thrown in here and there. I'm comfortable with html and am building on my knowledge of CSS, but have never touched PHP - so my personal main concern is in knowing and recognising where and what things to change within the PHP, like what can be safely deleted and so on. I realise the PHP is not something that could be explained more within the scope of this course and it is just a taster of the fact that is do-able. The exporting and uploading procedure was also quite straightforward. All in all a very good training course and well worth the cost. Are there any PHP courses in the making?

  • by Lea Ullman,

    This is how training should be delivered

    This is the first course I've taken on Udemy and I didn't really know what to expect, I guess you could say that I was apprehensive about spending my money with a company I'd never heard of. But after signing up I have to say I was glad I did, if anything this course over delivers in every possible way. I was trying to learn Wordpress by reading tutorials on the web and trying to watch badly created Youtube videos and I half expected this to be the same. I'm so pleased with what I've learned on this course and I'll be signing up for more courses if they're the same quality as this one.

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