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
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A few days ago the tutorial was on changing and setting the header art in your test site. Today’s tutorial in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course is about customizing your site with a background image or color. Before I dive into the details, please note that things are a little confusing right now with […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Themes
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It is time to begin to customize the design elements of your test site in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course. We begin with the header art in the Twenty-Eleven WordPress Theme. When you set up your WordPress test site for this course, you were instructed to set the WordPress Theme to Twenty-Eleven as it […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
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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 |
No matter what you do on the web, you will quote or cite someone, some place, or something. In today’s assignment and tutorial in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course, I’m going to teach you how to quote and cite in WordPress, and save yourself from a copyright violation. By publishing content on your site, […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, Writing
| Tags: author credits, blockquotes, citations, cite, content, copyright, copyright fair use, copyrighted content, copyrighted material, credit the source, credits, html, learn wordpress, other people's stuff, quotes, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 20, 2015 – 10:22 pm
In the assignment for Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course today and over the weekend, you are to work on preparing images for uploading to WordPress. You will be adding a variety of images to your WordPress test site such as images to accompany your posts and Pages, portraits, images for galleries, design elements, sidebar […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: attachments, graphic programs, graphic software, graphics, image attachments, image preparation, images, learn wordpress, media, multimedia, wordpress guide, wordpress help, wordpress images, wordpress media, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 18, 2015 – 6:51 am
In Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course we are going to take a break from the article series and work on your next Page in WordPress. Save the second post in the article series as draft. We’ll come back to it. As a reminder, WordPress Pages are content elements that exist outside of the reverse […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: contact, contact forms, contact page, forms, learn wordpress, pages, shortcodes, 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 |
February 3, 2015 – 4:16 am
Let’s be Lorelle’s WordPress School with the two core content elements of WordPress: posts and Pages. By default, WordPress displays content in posts and Pages. Each behaves differently and distinctively in WordPress, and can confuse people easily. Let’s make this simple. Pages hold timeless content. Posts hold timely content. Please be patient with the videos. […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: content, content organization, learn wordpress, wordpress content, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress pages, wordpress posts, wordpress school, wordpress tutorials |
February 2, 2015 – 4:55 am
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. Tony Robbins A website is an intangible, a virtual nothing in which we create something tangible to human perception. When it boils right down to it, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little created nothing with WordPress. WordPress isn’t a physical object you can […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: learn wordpress, site content, site information, site master plan, site organization, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, wordpress tutorials, worksheets |
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
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January 16, 2015 – 1:19 pm
During Lorelle’s WordPress School and online courses, you will be asked to give and receive feedback and criticism from the instructor and fellow participants. This is part of the learning process. it is important that we respect the integrity of learning here, even if we are doing so on the open web. Respect your fellow […]
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 […]
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 |
The following are the workshop notes for my popular workshop on “Speed Blogging.” The workshop is designed to teach how to take charge of your website and keep the content flowing with enthusiasm over the long term by learning the shortcuts, tips, and techniques to speed up the process of blogging, allowing your blog to […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News, Writing
| Tags: automation, blogging, blogging tips, browser, evernote, feeds, outsourcing, speed blogging, text editor, web browser, web writing, wordpress, WordPress News, workshops, writing for the web |