Futuretrend have paired up with Striking Design to deliver WordPress training at an introductory level to those who want to create their own blog or content management website without having to rely upon a third party.
(prHWY.com) July 31, 2012 - Enfield, United Kingdom -- Futuretrend have paired up with Striking Design to deliver WordPress training at an introductory level to those who want to create their own blog or content management website without having to rely upon a third party. Our training takes place at our training centre in London we our prices are very competitive as this training course is funded by the Enfield Council alongside many of our other courses. Our tutor has many years worth of experience within the web design industry.
This training course will cover all the following elements:
Day 1:
Morning - Introduction:
* WordPress overview
* Why WordPress?
* Content management system or blog or both?
* How can WordPress benefit my business?
* The five minute install
* Configuration
* Connecting to the database
* Explore the WordPress Dashboard
* Find your way around
* What's a page?
* What's a post?
Afternoon - Build your WordPress Site:
* Brainstorm as a group how site will be structured
* Produce site map of site
* Layout post categories
* Layout parent and child pages
* Define home page content and other site content
* Explore page layouts and post content:
* Sticky posts
* Galleries
* Images
* Explore widgets - install them and remove them
* Explore plugins - install them and remove them
* Install shop plugin and commission it for the site
* Explore SEO: tags, categories etc
* Use Google custom search API to generate a more advanced search facility
* Build a contact form
* Build member area of the web site
Day 2:
Morning - Theming WordPress:
* Exploration of CSS and styling of WP themes.
* Build sidebars
* Explore page layouts
* Customise the loop in WP
* Include social networking attributes such as Twitter widgets and AddThis functionality
* Write a simple function
* Action hooks and filters
* Explore other theme frameworks such as thematic
Afternoon - Maintenance, Security & Resources:
* Evaluate what has been achieved from the session on theme frameworks and discuss how what we have created could be built in another framework
* How to maintain your WP site. What security precautions need to be considered
* Resources for further learning
* Recap on aims and objectives
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