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WordPress Introduction and Themes

WordPress Introduction and Themes. MGMT 230 WEEK 7. Review of Web Project assignment instructions. Today’s Lab objectives: Select your WordPress username and site title Select a WordPress theme for your project website and decide on your final layout for the wireframes in your project plan

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WordPress Introduction and Themes

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  1. WordPress Introduction and Themes MGMT 230 WEEK 7

  2. Review of Web Project assignment instructions • Today’s Lab objectives: • Select your WordPress username and site title • Select a WordPress theme for your project website and decide on your final layout for the wireframes in your project plan • What firm are you planning and building the site for? • What are your organizational and user goals?

  3. About WordPress • The free service that we will use from WordPress is often used as blogging software – very little knowledge of html required to use it • Can also be used as a content management system for websites (more about how to do this next week) • We will use the hosted version from wordpress.com • If you were doing this “for real” you would download the software from wordpress.org to the server where your web site is hosted • Most major ISPs will offer WordPress as part of standard virtual server packages • This software has more flexibility than the hosted version that we will use • You can use your own domain name (but you will not be doing that for this project)

  4. Signing up for WordPress • The free service that we will use from WordPress • Go to wordpress.com • simple steps • Name your blog • Choose a theme • Explore the Dashboard

  5. *Name your blog This will also be its URL – keep it professional. It doesn’t matter what your username is at this point, as you will be creating another instance of your “blog” when you build your web project site, which will use your business name. *You may need a few tries to get the URL you want *You will be sent an activation email to the address you specified When it arrives, activate your account

  6. Click My Blog

  7. Then click Dashboard (important step)

  8. Once you are at the Dashboard you can manage your website / blog. We will look at these in detail the week after next Explore these buttons – they give you all the options to manage your website / blog Posts Appearance Users Tools Settings

  9. This week we are focusing on THEMESSelect the Appearance button, then select Themes.

  10. Select and install your Theme • Explore and select a theme that fits your business, your target market, and your web site goals • When you have decided on the theme you want, make sure that you have Installed it • Then go to Appearance > Theme Options to explore and select layout and other options (these vary by theme) • Decide on the final layout for your site (from the theme you have chosen) – you will use this layout for the wireframe diagrams in your web project plan.

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