Start a Blog or Website: Quick Start Guide for Wordpress
What you'll learn
- Create a website/blog QUICKLY i.e. within a few hours.
- Obtain a domain & web hosting account
- Manipulate and navigate WordPress to create and update a functional, visually appealing website
- Add navigation and widget elements to make the website inviting and easy to use
- Choose a theme for their website or blog
- Monetize your website immediately with Google Adsense
- Collect email addresses for highly effective email marketing
- Create blog posts and web pages that provide a great user experience
- Connect social media feeds to make the blog/website look "alive" and consistently updated
Requirements
- Be familiar with how cloud-based software works: email, social media and internet surfing count!
- Basic computer skills like being able to use a mouse and keyboard along with finding files on a computer
Description
This course is for people who want to create a blog or website but don't have time to read a long book or complete a lengthy tutorial. It's especially designed for the quick launch. This course will focus on the WordPress CMS (content management system.) This is the quickest, easiest, non-coding method of starting a website/blog. This course is ideal for people either wanting to have their own blog/website OR for people who want to acquire this skill in order to charge clients for website creation services. You will learn how to get a domain name, hosting services and choose a WordPress theme (the clothes on your website) along with modules on monetizing your site with ads and a place to collect email addresses. If you have a business, idea, blog or voice that needs to be heard. This is a great place to start! There is even a bonus module on creating a logo for your business or website with free online tools.
Who this course is for:
- This course is for anyone who needs to have a web presence through either a static website or a blog
- This course is also useful for anyone who wants to learn to create websites as a side-business
- Great for anyone wanting foundational knowledge on creating and running a WordPress based website or blog
- This is for someone who wants to get going sooner and not later; designed as a quick start guide
Instructor
![Aja McClanahan](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Aja "A.J." McClanahan is a certified salesforce developer by day and by night inspires people around her financial mantra: get out of debt, increase income and build wealth. She is a personal finance blogger for Principles of Increase along with numerous web publications and produces premium training content for the technical training company, Cramforce. She is passionate about tech, finance and winning.