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Start a Blog or Website: Quick Start Guide for Wordpress
A complete guide to starting and running a website or blog with WordPress made especially for quick launches!
Created byAja McClanahan
Last updated 5/2016
English
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
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Course content
3 sections • 12 lectures • 2h 29m total length
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