August 16, 2017 – 4:56 am
I was asked by a student in my WordPress class recently what defined a “professional blog,” one that met all the criteria for a well-designed, well-formed site that met web standards. What a marvelous question! We brainstormed all the elements that make up a web standard site, and mixed in personal preferences of the students […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blog design, blog design tips, blog exercises, branding, fonts, multimedia, professional site, readability, site design, site design tips, Usability, video, Web Design, web design tips, web standards, whitespace |
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In this mini-series on adding policies to your WordPress site for Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course, we’re going to look at the technical decisions you need to make on how to integrate these policies. The next follow-up articles will discuss how to write and format each of the four policies we’ll cover in this […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: content navigation, content organization, jump links, learn wordpress, legal, menus, navigation, pages, policies, site structure, widgets, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress pages, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
It’s time to talk about policies in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course. While every website, personal or professional, requires some policies, learning how to publish policies on a WordPress site involves learning about WordPress Pages as a content type, customizing the navigation menu, using jump links, creating lists, customizing links in Widgets, and a […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: content, content organization, content structure, learn wordpress, menus, navigation, pages, policies, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress pages, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
Starting this Monday, we will be diving into web browsers in preparation for some basic HTML lessons to help you learn more about the inner workings of WordPress, WordPress Themes, and web design as part of Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course. The first step in the process is learning to view a web page […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: code, css, html, javascript, learn wordpress, programming code, source code, under the hood, web code, Web Design, web page, web page source code, web programming code, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
March 23, 2015 – 10:04 am
A student trying to explain how WordPress Themes worked to another student used the following metaphor: Think of WordPress Themes like a poker hand. They are all cards but the value of the playing hand changes with each deal. She was right. There are 52 cards in a deck, four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades), […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Themes
| Tags: conditionals, front end view, front view, learn wordpress, pageviews, website view, wordpress conditionals, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress pageviews, wordpress school, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
March 10, 2015 – 10:58 pm
To help me teach you WordPress from the inside out in this free online course, we’ve been focused on creating a five-part article series to learn the various WordPress content features and functionality. Each article offers you the opportunity to dive into how WordPress works right out of the box, focusing on the content and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: article series, article series links, gallery, how to publish an article series, how to write an article, learn wordpress, links, multimedia, table of contents, web publishing, web writing, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, writing for the web |
February 21, 2015 – 4:27 am
Over the years I’ve copied and saved HTML Character Entities that I use on a regular basis, and I thought I’d share my cheat sheet. These are important to me as a technical web publisher specializing in writing blogging and WordPress tutorials, so I’ve explained why and how I use them in the table below. […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: blogging, blogging tips, html, html character entities, html entities, publishing code, publishing code in wordpress, symbols, technical writing, web writing, wordpress code, WordPress Tips, Writing, writing for the web |
February 11, 2015 – 5:40 am
You will be doing too much tab switching and opening during this year-long Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course, so let’s talk about what that is. Tabs are mini-windows inside of your WordPress browser for holding web pages. Browser tabs were one of the greatest addition to the web browser, allowing the user to open […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: learn wordpress, preview page, preview post, two tabs, web browser, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 4, 2015 – 4:29 am
We’ve covered WordPress posts and Pages, the core content elements associated with a basic WordPress site. Today we are going to focus on posts, specifically how they are organized and structured within a WordPress site. Categories are your site’s Table of Contents. Tags are your site’s index words. Honestly, it is that simple. Think of […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: categories, learn wordpress, site organization, tags, wordpress categories, wordpress content, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, wordpress tags, wordpress tutorials |
January 16, 2015 – 2:08 pm
DISCOUNT: Lorelle is offering her popular site reviews for 50% off during 2015 as part of her WordPress School year-long project teaching the basics of WordPress. The discount code is found in the introduction materials. Lorelle VanFossen offers three levels of site reviews, specifically for WordPress sites. The prices are the starting prices for the […]
Students in my Clark College WordPress class are required to interview a WordPress professional and member of the WordPress Community as part of their assignments for our student managed site, ClarkWP Magazine. Would you like to be an interview subject? Here are the qualifications. You must use WordPress actively as part of your business. The […]
November 13, 2013 – 12:49 pm
Due to the computer crash and trauma lately, October and November Blog Exercises for Current events is combined. In my college courses, one of the student assignments is to interview someone within the WordPress Community. The WordPress Community is a broad field of participants and activists, from users to professionals building their career on the […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, Writing
| Tags: blog about your industry, blog exercises, blogging, blogging tips, celebs, current events, industry, industry topics, interview, write about your industry, Writing, writing tips |
November 9, 2013 – 4:41 am
Two questions on the same day triggered this blog exercise. I was asked by a student in my WordPress class recently what defined a “professional blog.” I told him it was one that met all the criteria for a well-designed, well-formed site that met web standards. This is a good definition, but lacked specifics. A […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, Web Design, WordPress, Writing
| Tags: authority, blog authority, blog exercises, blogging tips, brand, branding, content, credibility, design, good content, good site, professional site, reputation, social media, social web, trust, Web Design, what makes a good site, what makes a professional site, what makes someone trust a website, wordpress |
October 29, 2013 – 1:48 pm
Loss is a part of life. This year, I’ve lost friends, family, and pets, and some days the sadness permeates everything. Other days, we laugh and smile. As with all things, in time, the balance between sunshine and dark shifts the scale towards sunshine. Grief is often best when shared, at least during the earliest […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, blogging tips
| Tags: blog exercises, blogging tips, blogging your grief, death, grief, grieving, loss, mourning, personal blog, personal stories, private stories, social media, storytelling |