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October 19, 2016 – 12:16 pm
I’ve been asked repeatedly to make my views on the US 2016 Election public, even though it goes against all this site stands for, an unbiased educational site to support WordPress users and bloggers. In light of current events, and the impact the web has had on those events, the time has come for my […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging
| Tags: clinton, debates, election, hillary clinton, politics, president, trump, united states, us election 2016, vote, voting |
One of my favorite blogging tools – okay, tool I use for teaching, writing, and research – is Jing by Techsmith. It’s a must-have tool for bloggers and blogging. Jing is free. It allows capturing still images (screenshots), basic video, and animation, and allows you to share them on the web or save them to […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips
| Tags: blogging resources, blogging tips, blogging tools, capture video, free blogging tools, graphics, how to blog, images, jing, media, screen capture, screencast, screenshot capture, techsmith, video, video capture |
I will be teaching Words and Pictures: Photoblogging and Web Publishing for Photographers at Newspace Center for Photography for 4 Wednesdays, May 11 – June 1 from 6:30-9:30PM in Portland Oregon. This is an intimate teaching location and limited seating, so register now for your spot. Teaching WordPress at the client, college, and workshop level […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Announcements, Blogging, Classes, WordPress News, Writing
| Tags: class, course, education, newspace, newspace center for photography, photoblogging, photography, web photography, web publishing, web writing, WordPress News, words and pictures, workshop, Writing |
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 |
So far in this mini-series on HTML and CSS for Lorelle’s WordPress School, we’ve covered the basics and gave you a test HTML file to experiment with, explored the basics of HTML tags, inline styles with CSS, HTML embedded styles where the styles are removed from the HTML and placed in a <style> HTML tag […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Themes
| Tags: css, css lessons, css parent child relationship, css styles, html, html lessons, html tags, styles, tags, web desgin, wordpress school, WordPress Themes |
In this mini-series for Lorelle’s WordPress School , we’re learning about HTML basics. I shared a little history and information to help you get started and gave you an HTML file that you will use in this tutorial. In the next tutorial, I covered some very basic HTML elements found in the test HTML file. […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: blockquotes, call-to-action, css, html, html series, html tags, inline css, inline html styles, learn css, learn html, learn wordpress, pull-quotes, quotes, styling wordpress.com posts, 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 |
This past week on Lorelle’s WordPress School the focus was on the web browser, helping you to learn the basics of the most important tool in your arsenal for working with WordPress. Like any tool, the more you learn about how it works, the better you work with it. WordPress School: Web Browsers WordPress School: […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: browser, learn wordpress, web browser, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
This week on Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course we’ve been covering the web browser, your gateway to the web and WordPress. So far in this Web Browser Guide series we’ve covered some web browser history, keyboard and mouse shortcuts, browser tabs, and search operators and shortcuts to help you find WordPress help as well […]
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, 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, web browser, web browser tips, web browsers, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
In 2006, the First Annual CSS Naked Day was held, a tribute to honor web designers, the painters of our websites. I celebrate the holiday most years on this site. Every year on April 9, web developers, designers, and those honoring web design and programming celebrate by removing the styles on our sites for 24 […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Announcements, Blogging, Web Browsers, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress News
| Tags: annual event, css, css naked day, css naked day instructions, how to turn off the css, html, WordPress News |
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 |
In my WordPress college courses, we make it a habit to have a minimum of four tabs open in the web browser before class starts, ready to start jumping into WordPress. I equate this to having my notebook of paper and pen ready to go when my teachers started teaching in school. The three tabs […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: browser shortcuts, browser tabs, keyboard shortcuts, learn wordpress, mouse shortcuts, shortcuts, web browser, web browser tabs, web browser tips, web browsers, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
March 31, 2015 – 11:56 am
In this section of Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course we are exploring the web browser, our gateway to the web, and how it impacts our use of WordPress. In this tutorial you are going to learn some very basic features and functions of the web browser: The Address and Search Bar The Right Click […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: browser right click, browser shortcuts, browsers, chrome, firefox, internet explorer, keyboard shortcuts, learn wordpress, safari, speed, web browser, web browser tips, web browsers, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |