Create Your Own Website Using WordPress in a Weekend

✍ Scribed by Moore, Alannah

• Publisher: Taylor and Francis;CRC Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 161
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Having a website built can be a complicated and expensive undertaking. For large businesses this is a necessary expense, but for the ever-increasing number of independents and small businesses, this can easily be handled by the intrepid amateur. In Create Your Own Website Using WordPress in a Weekend, author Alannah Moore draws on her extensive experience to show how, in just a weekend, almost anyone can create a website in WordPress that looks professional and is entirely tailored to their needs and preferences. Through carefully structured step-by-step tutorials, the book takes the. Read more...

Abstract: Having a website built can be a complicated and expensive undertaking. For large businesses this is a necessary expense, but for the ever-increasing number of independents and small businesses, this can easily be handled by the intrepid amateur. In Create Your Own Website Using WordPress in a Weekend, author Alannah Moore draws on her extensive experience to show how, in just a weekend, almost anyone can create a website in WordPress that looks professional and is entirely tailored to their needs and preferences. Through carefully structured step-by-step tutorials, the book takes the

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Title
Copyright
TABLE of CONTENTS
WHY YOU NEED A WEBSITE
How This Book Works
1 AN INTRODUCTION TO WORDPRESS
What makes WordPress a good choice?
WordPress.com or WordPress.org?
The elements of a WordPress website
2 YOUR DOMAIN AND HOSTING
Choosing a domain name
Registering a domain name
Choosing your hosting
Linking your domain and hosting
3 PLANNING YOUR WEBSITE
What kind of site are you planning to build?
What's the purpose of your site?
What content do you need on your site?
Finding and using images
Video and audio
4 SETTING UP WORDPRESS
The one-click install. Setting up using WordPress.com5 STEP-BY-STEP: CREATING A BASIC MODEL WEBSITE
Introducing the default WordPress theme "Twenty Twelve"
The live site and admin area
The admin area
First steps
The header
The background
Creating pages
Choosing your home page
Working with the text editor
Adding pages to the menu
Adding images to your site
Adding video and audio to your site
Your blog or news area
Your widgets
The plugins you need
Basic site completion checklist
6 SELLING FROM YOUR WEBSITE
Using Paypal
Paypal buttons and shopping cart
7 EXPLORING THEMES
Free or premium? How to choose a themeWhere to find themes
How to install a theme
Themes: Business
Themes: Portfolio
Themes: Magazine/Blog
Themes: E-commerce
8 IN FOCUS
Business theme
Portfolio theme
Magazine theme
E-commerce theme
9 YOUR LIVE SITE
Growing your audience
Maintaining relationships with your visitors
Tracking your visitors
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Integrating social media with your website
10 USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW
Legal issues
Maintaining your WordPress site
My site isn't showing up in Google
Working with other users
Getting help
WordPress in other languages. Adding functionality with pluginsGoing further with WordPress
Resources and glossary
Index
Acknowledgments.

✦ Subjects

WordPress (Electronic resource);Web sites;Authoring programs.;Web site development.;COMPUTERS;General.