Create a Website

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Course description

This course will deliver a comprehensive introduction to the WordPress open source content management system, used by bloggers, photographers and many creative businesses throughout the world.

You'll be shown everything you need to set up your own portfolio and blog using WordPress. Create galleries and promote your work to the world using the latest online tools and social media.

You'll learn how to set up your site and customise it quickly, as well as how to optimise your images to present them online. By the end of the day, you will have your website online and have the skills and tools to keep it up to date and add content yourself.

This course is ideal for anyone who wants to get their work online and promote themselves effectively via the web.

For further information or to book over the phone, please call us at the office on 020 7729 1936.

 

Course Content

Becoming familiar with WordPress

Themes and customisation - logo, colours and fonts

Social media

Plug-ins

Content management systems

Editing your site

Creating galleries & slideshows

Self-hosting & using themes

Creating posts and pages

Adding images to your pages

Inserting hyperlinks & image properties

Optimising your images

Basic file management

 

Requirements: Laptop

Tutor Profiles

Pierre Vella

Pierre Vella has up to six years of experience teaching web design courses for photographers and visual artists, using the WordPress platform in combination with HTML, CSS, and PHP coding. Pierre also works for Invisible Dust, a London-based arts organization where he develops web and mobile solutions for artists and scientists working on projects around climate change, environmental and digital interaction.

 

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