October 29, 2007 – 4:14 am
Discussing the challenges associated with blogging, a participant in a program I presented recently told me about how she tends to obsess over punctuation. My friends tell me I need to read that book, Eat, Shoots, and Leaves about punctuation. I’m obsessed with commas and ellipses. I love using them. I like how they sound […]
September 2, 2017 – 4:19 am
In this ongoing series called Blog Exercises, today you will blog a conversation. “I don’t want to.” “Sure, you do.” “Nah. Don’t want to.” “This is a chance to improve your blogging.” “Uh-huh.” “This is a change to improve your writing skills.” “Nope.” “You will do it because I said so. Got it?” “Okay.” Writing […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, Writing
| Tags: blog dialog, blog dialogue, blog exercise, blog exercises, conflict, conversation, dialog, dialogue, speech, talking, web writing, web writing tips, Writing, writing tips |
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 |
If you are following along with Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course you’ve been writing posts as part of the article series assignments and other assignments. Go to the front page of your site in the Twenty-Eleven WordPress Theme and take a look. Do you see long posts, one after another, and have to scroll, […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: continue reading, excerpts, learn wordpress, more, more feature, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 22, 2016 – 4:07 am
I’ve just finished five years of teaching non-stop college and community education workshops and programs on WordPress for beginners, novices, experts, web designers, web developers, web programmers, and those who think they know everything but still realize they have a lot to learn. I love that last group as they are willing to learn and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blogging, blogging tips, wordpress advice, wordpress content, wordpress customization, wordpress help, wordpress installation, wordpress organization, wordpress setup, wordpress structure, WordPress Tips |
In the next part of this mini-series for Lorelle’s WordPress School, we’re moving deeper into understanding how CSS works with HTML. These easy tutorials will give you the basic tools you need to learn to customize your WordPress site and work on WordPress Themes. We will be working more on the test HTML file and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Themes
| Tags: css, css styles, embedded css styles, html, html and css, html tags, inline css styles, learn wordpress, styles, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
In the last tutorial in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course covering the web browser, your gateway to the web and WordPress, we covered bookmarks and how to save a web page for later access and reading. In this tutorial, we take bookmarks a little further by exploring browser bookmarklets and user scripts, small but […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: bookmarks, browser bookmarks, browser tips, browser user scripts, browsers, learn wordpress, read later, read web pages offline, save bookmarks, save web page, save web page for reference, save web page to read later, send to, sendto, user scripts, userscripts, web browser, web browser tips, web browsers, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
Search is used in WordPress for many different purposes as you prepare, develop, implement, and launch your website, and as you continue to maintain and publish on the site. This tutorial will help you understand how to search within a web page with the web browser, search within a WordPress site, and provide helpful tips […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: browsers, find, google search, how to search, learn wordpress, search, search operators, searching tips, web browser, web browsers, web search, web searching tips, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
Coming very soon, I’m dedicating a couple weeks to learning about web browsers and HTML and CSS in preparation for moving into the site design and customization aspects of Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course. To help you prepare, today’s tutorial and assignment is to introduce you to text editors. In WordPress, there is a […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Themes
| Tags: code, content, css, editors, html, learn wordpress, php, text, text editor, web programming, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, writing code, writing content, xhtml |
The word login is a strange word with an odd spelling, yet it is the gateway to our online world. We have to login to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, email, even our computers now require logins for security purposes. WordPress also has a login – many, in fact. Today’s assignment and tutorial in Lorelle’s WordPress School […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: access, learn wordpress, log in, login, login link, wordpress access, wordpress guide, wordpress help, wordpress login, wordpress login link, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 5, 2015 – 5:17 am
Throughout Lorelle’s WordPress School this year, I will be teaching you the words, jargon, and names of things, including their nick names. We’ll start with the word “WordPress.” WordPress WordPress is an Open Source web publishing, content management system platform. That’s a mouthful. Let’s break it down. Open Source Open Source is software for which […]
January 31, 2015 – 3:30 pm
The following are the presentations notes for my workshop called “Blogging Your Passion” at Making it in Changing Times in 2015. In 2010 I was in Chicago for SOBCon, the Successful Online Business Conference, and I had an amazing encounter with a woman on the crowded downtown streets: …I was storming away from the last […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips
| Tags: blog writing, blog your passion, blogging, events, how to blog, speaking, web writing, workshops, writers, Writing |
January 16, 2015 – 1:18 pm
Are you ready to join Lorelle’s WordPress School? Let’s get going. Here is what you need to know. To participate, you need the following: A free WordPress.com site or other test site for experimentation Join and participate in the WordPress School Google+ Community Do the assignments and tasks associated with each lesson Comment on the […]
January 12, 2015 – 4:13 am
The following is a brief summary of the workflow to publishing content in WordPress. Print this out to remind yourself of each step in the process. Consider this your checklist to review before publishing every post until you become accustomed to the process. This is your guide to the WordPress publishing process. This guideline is […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: how to blog, how to publish on wordpress, learn wordpress, using wordpress, wordpress, wordpress content, wordpress help, wordpress pages, wordpress posts, wordpress publishing, WordPress Tips |
September 29, 2014 – 4:35 am
In 2012 and 2013, I did extensive research for the grant program to develop and rewrite the Web Developer degree program at Clark College. This research included an analysis of current and future job opportunities for students graduating with that degree with a solid understanding of WordPress. Now that the program has completed its first […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Classes, WordPress, WordPress News
| Tags: clark college, education, jobs, web content, Web Design, web development, web practitioner, web writing, wordpress, wordpress classes, wordpress education, wordpress jobs, WordPress News, wordpress training |