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Website Design In WordPress For Beginners: Learn To Build a Website In 1 Hour

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Overview

Welcome to my Website Design In WordPress For Beginners: Learn To Build a Website In 1 Hour class!

This class will teach you how to create a Wordpress website from scratch and will cover everything you need to know from the very beginning of buying a website domain name, all the way to installing plugins to protect your website and then finally publishing and launching your website!

If you've ever wanted to create your own website, Wordpress is the way to do it if you want professional results without diving into complex coding, or needing to know any code at all! In this course, we'll walk you through, step-by-step, on how to set everything up in Wordpress, to get your website live, including e-mail!

In this class, you will learn:

  • What a domain is & how to buy one
  • What hosting is & how to purchase it
  • How to install Wordpress and a Wordpress template theme
  • How to install an SSL certificate on your website to make it more secure & to help it rank higher on Google & other search engines
  • How to customize various elements in the theme like banners, titles, different sections, social media links, contact forms, blog pages, posts
  • What the best Wordpress plugins are to install and use
  • How to setup your own custom e-mail such as [email protected]
  • How to navigate through the various pages and sections of Wordpress

and more!

Your instructor for this class is Will Bartlett, who has been involved in media and design work since 2004. He runs several established businesses, each with its own self created & managed professional website and e-mail accounts.

Syllabus

  • 00 Wordpress Website For Beginners PROMO
  • 01 Introduction to Wordpress Website For Beginners
  • 02 Getting Started Website Domain & Hosting
  • 03 Domain & Hosting Part 1
  • 04 Domain & Hosting Part 2
  • 05 Installing Wordpress, A Theme & An SSL Certificate
  • 06 Wordpress Settings Tab
  • 07 Wordpress Theme Customization Part 1
  • 08 Wordpress Theme Customization Part 2
  • 09 Wordpress Theme Customization Part 3 Blog Posts
  • 10 Wordpress Theme Customization Part 4 Wordpress Website Page
  • 11 Wordpress Website Media
  • 12 Wordpress Website Plugins
  • 13 Wordpress Website Security
  • 14 Website Custom Email Accounts
  • 15 Launching your Wordpress Website and Final Thoughts

Taught by

Will Bartlett

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