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Foundations of Web Design. Wordpress. http://www.audioscribedesigns.com/webdesign. Wordpress Basics. Why use wordpress for your site? The simplicity and flexibility of Wordpress’s design make it easy to learn, easy to expand and easy to customize.
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Foundations of Web Design Wordpress http://www.audioscribedesigns.com/webdesign
Wordpress Basics • Why use wordpress for your site? • The simplicity and flexibility of Wordpress’s design make it easy to learn, easy to expand and easy to customize. • The wordpress community is so large and so vibrant that you have excellent support, and will have for years to come.
Wordpress Basics • How Wordpress Assembles Pages • Three basic structures that create HTML pages • The Core – the set of files that you download form wordpress.org that perform the tasks of storing, retrieving, and assembling content. • The Theme – made up of template files that provide instructions to the core about what to retrieve and how to assemble it. • The Database – Where the content is stored
Wordpress Basics • Three key things to consider when building a site in Wordpress: • How are various kinds of content going to be entered in Wordpress? • What categories are needed to organize that content? • What do the layout and design roughly look like?
Wordpress Basics • How content will be entered Suppliers Destinations Travel News About Us Supplier 1 Destination 1 Testimonials Supplier 2 Destination 2 Destination 3
Wordpress Basics • Set up your free Wordpress site • Go to wordpress.com and sign up for your free account.
Wordpress Basics • Go through the sign up process.
Wordpress Basics • Login to your account
Navigating The Admin Area When you first log in to WordPress, the most important place to start is the left-side navigation menu. It shows you all the pages you can access in the admin area, so it’s crucial to know how it operates. By default, the submenus for each area are not visible, but the headings for each area are.
Navigating The Admin Area The first screen you get is called the Dashboard, which is the homepage for the administration area.