Why and How To Build Your Website with WordPress
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.
Net Ingenuity produces effective, findable websites and uses the Web and social media in ways that compel others to work with our clients. Content is clarified, organized and presented eloquently, with the right words, appropriate style and proper grammar. We design custom themes for WordPress and provide WordPress coaching.
Watch a FREE Detailed Demonstration of a Custom WordPress Installation
This free demo of how to create an effective website using WordPress was made on March 28, 2012 by Karen Kreps as part of R.I.S.E. 2012 Conference at the North Village Library.
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.
Watch an Earlier Recorded Talk and WordPress Demo of a site for a home remodeler.
Watch an online presentation from a meeting of the Austin Adobe User Group, where Karen Kreps, president and 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 on May 11, 2010 for the presentation, and others 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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Ebook Creation for ipads, iphones, Kindle and Other Portable Devices
[ July 13, 2012; 1:15 pm to 3:30 pm. ]
Creating ebooks with InDesign CS6, a Presentation at Austin Adobe User Group
Watch a recording of “Producing EPubs with Adobe Indesign.”
Ebooks now outsell print books. With InDesign CS6 it is easy to produce outstanding quality .epub and .mobi files for distribution over ipads, iphones, Kindle and other portable devices. Karen Kreps and Pam Knight demonstrated to the Austin Adobe Users Group the importance of proper formatting of an InDesign book for exporting to these formats. They also discussed the process of bringing a book to market.
Pam Knight, publisher for Plain View Press (1976) and founder of Isis Interactive (1993), is a producer and content developer who has used Adobe products for many years.
Karen Kreps of Net Ingenuity is a long-time member of the Austin Adobe Users Group, an online content developer since 1987 who uses WordPress and Adobe products and is proud to now be working with Plain View Press.
Community Activism Support
10-1 Plan Qualifies for November Ballot
Consultant Estimates that 22,435 Signatures Are Valid;
Austinites for Geographic Representation Ready for Battle
City Clerk Shirley Gentry e-mailed a statement on July 26, 2012 to announce that the plan petitioned for by Austinites for Geographic Representation is qualified to put the proposition before voters in November.