Creative Web Content

At the June 11 meeting of the Austin Adobe User Group, Karen Kreps, president & main muse of Net Ingenuity, presented: “Why and How To Build Your Website with WordPress: Learn to take control of your own website.”

These are the slides she used to introduce the topic, before performing an installation of WordPress and configuring the site.

Some fifty people came to the North Village Branch of the Austin Public Library for the presentation, and about twenty watched online via Adobe Connect.

Use this link to watch an abridged version of this presentation (~85 mins).

http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p10811269/

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ABOUT THIS SESSION

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools available, yet many people don’t know is that it is a powerful Content Management System (CMS) that can be used for more than just blogging. With WordPress you can build a blog, a website, or both. It will rank higher on Google than a non-WP site and you won’t be held hostage by your webmaster.

We’ll show you how to:

• Install WordPress via SimpleScripts (and describe how to install WordPress manually)
• Create pages
• Create subpages
• Write posts
• Arrange your blog posts in categories
• Manage comments in WordPress
• Find or create a WordPress theme
• Change the theme of your WordPress site
• Install WordPress plugins
• Protect WordPress from spam
• Optimize WordPress for search engines – SEO

And how to make the content on your website compelling.