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Instructor: Kelsey Bates, TA/GA ITD & Help Desk

Building Your Professional Online Presence Workshop Series Start the Presses!: WordPress Website Builder. Instructor: Kelsey Bates, TA/GA ITD & Help Desk. Overview of WordPress Website Builder. Non-Blogging Possibilities of WordPress Content Management Systems

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Instructor: Kelsey Bates, TA/GA ITD & Help Desk

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  1. Building Your Professional Online Presence Workshop Series Start the Presses!:WordPress Website Builder Instructor: Kelsey Bates, TA/GA ITD & Help Desk

  2. Overview of WordPress Website Builder • Non-Blogging Possibilities of WordPress • Content Management Systems • Levels of WordPress’ Flexibility • Fighting with the Interface • Free WordPress sites • Freemium WordPress sites • Full Domain Management of a WordPress site

  3. What Do You Want to Do With WordPress?

  4. Non-Blogging Examples

  5. Content Management Systems (CMSs) • Manages pictures, video, audio, page layouts, etc. for easy collaboration with other users • Uses PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML, etc. without you having to know about them • Other examples of CMSs: • Drupal • Omeka • Joomla!

  6. Why choose WordPress as a CMS? • Ease of Collaboration • Rich community of users & documentation • Ease of setup • Flexible! • Commonly used by employers • Stepping stone to more a complex CMS

  7. Why choose WordPress as a CMS? • It can get complicated • It is limited • Ease of Collaboration • Rich community of users & documentation • Ease of setup • Flexible! • Commonly used by employers • Stepping stone to more a complex CMS

  8. Publish Illinois • www.publish.illinois.edu • Expires after graduating

  9. Modifying Your Site What you can do depends on where the site lives • WordPress.com(free) • WordPress.com(paid) • WordPress.org(free*with your own hosting space)

  10. WordPress.com (free) • Quick and Easy! • Never goes down • Always backed up • Potential for extra traffic from tied-in WordPress community • It gets you started! • No $$$ Commitment

  11. WordPress.com (free) • Quick and Easy! • Never goes down • Always backed up • Potential for extra traffic from tied-in WordPress community • It gets you started! • No $$$ Commitment • No plug-ins • No PHP customization • No customized themes • Less professional web address yourblogname.wordpress.com vs yourblogname.org or .com

  12. WordPress.com (paid) • Quick and Easy! • Never goes down • Always backed up • Potential for extra traffic from tied-in WordPress community • It gets you started! • CSS customization • Pro web address

  13. WordPress.com (paid) • Quick and Easy! • Never goes down • Always backed up • Potential for extra traffic from tied-in WordPress community • It gets you started! • CSS customization • Pro web address • No plug-ins • No PHP customization • Some customized themes • Moderate $$$ investment

  14. WordPress.org (paid) • Infinity customization • Fully customizable themes • Fantastic for building technical experience

  15. WordPress.org (paid) • Infinity customization • Fully customizable themes • Fantastic for building technical experience • Infinity customization • $$$ investment for managing your own domain • No tech support • No automatic backups

  16. Modifying Your Site • Themes • Content • Menus & Pages • Widgets • Plug-ins • Mobile

  17. Questions?

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