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SUMMARY:Create Your Own Website Using WordPress - ONLINE - Sallie Goetsch - 4 sessions, $350
DESCRIPTION:WHEN 4 sessions, September 12 - October 10\nOnline chats Wednesdays, 8-9 pm ET \n\nWHERE Online\n\nPRICE\n$350 ($325 for AvantGuild)\n\nCOURSE DETAILS\nLearn how to create your own Web page using WordPress, one of the Web\'s most popular and robust content management systems. Through lectures, assignments, and interactive chats, you\'ll gain hands-on experience and build your website. Weekly chat sessions include live video presentations and demos through our webcast platform. In this class, you will learn:\n\nHow to install WordPress on your web hosting server with your own domain name\n\nThe basics of using WordPress to publish pages, articles, and multimedia\n\nHow to change the appearance of your site using WordPress Themes, widgets, and simple CSS coding\n\nHow to make WordPress sit up and do tricks with plugins    \n\nBy the end of class, you will have:A live website and WordPress styling skills. Note: Students should be prepared to sign up for a web hosting plan (less than $10 a month) and domain name (around $15 a year). If you already have a web host, please have your FTP server name, user name, and password ready. If you already have a WordPress site, please know your login information. The online classroom has several components:\n\nLessons: Access weekly lectures.\n\nHomework: Share your work and receive instructor feedback.\n\nDiscussion: Exchange resources and ask questions via discussion forum.\n\nChat: Join a weekly group discussion via instant message. Transcripts are available if you can\'t participate.\n\n\n\nINSTRUCTOR BIO\nSallie Goetsch works with individual clients, small businesses, and non-profit organizations to build and customize websites on WordPress. She has been online since 1985, when she was introduced to BITNET on the mainframe at Brown University.\n\nSallie started hand-coding HTML in 1994 to  produce a web version of her electronic journal. She discovered WordPress in 2005 and flung herself on it with gratitude because it made developing websites so much easier. In 2009, she became organizer of the East Bay WordPress Meetup. Sallie was previously a university lecturer in Greek and Roman drama. You can find her portfolio and blog at wpfangirl.com.\n\nTestimonials\n\n"Thanks to Sallie, I was able to create my WordPress website from scratch and have it up and running in 3 weeks!" -- Amadie Hart\n\n"Sallie has a knack for clearly and concisely explaining the technical aspects of launching a website and the tricky elements of WordPress. She provided very helpful suggestions and resources." -- Jill Laurinaitis\n\n"Sallie is a Wordpress guru and so helpful to me as I create my website. She does everything with a sense of humor and overextended her services for all of us as we went through the pains of putting up our sites." -- Greer Jonas\n\n
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