December 10th workshop

This month we will work on building a new website for PC Renew using WordPress as a class exercise.

We are willing to take this project because the PC Renew site is a more straight-forward site than the main club site, and since our workshop had built the original PC Renew site, we have a strong familiarity with it.

This project will include:

• Selecting a host & domain name
• Installing WordPress
• Selecting a theme 
• Create the website
• Presenting the resulting site to Jimmy & Gary
• Making changes as requested by Jimmy & Gary
• Bringing the site live

The workshop starts at 7PM. See Directions.

November 12th Workshop

Weebly - A website builder

Last month we didn't get a chance to cover this.  This month we will start with this topic - to make sure.

Weebly is an online website builder & we'll build a website using this tool.

A special project for this workshop

We will continue our search for a WordPress theme for our club website. Additionally, we will develop some preliminary requirements for content & navigation.

Choosing a theme for a WordPress site is a critical part of website design & for this workshop we will examine this phase in a real world setting.

October 8th Workshop

A special project for this workshop

During the September Executive Board meeting a decision was made to engage an outside WordPress designer to build a new website for the club. For this workshop we will go about the process of choosing a theme for our website and develop some preliminary requirements for content & navigation.

Choosing a theme for a WordPress site is a critical part of website design & for this workshop we will examine this phase in a real world setting.

If we have any remaining time, we will build a website using the online website tool  - Weebly.

September 10th Workshop

September is the start of the new workshop season

For this workshop we will cover the following:

• Setting up a WordPress site on our new hosting account
• In our study of social media, we will look at Google+
• Continue our study of WordPress

As a guest you are welcome to attend ANY 2 meetings as a non-member.

June 11th Workshop

End of workshop term celebration

Since this workshop is the end of our spring semester - to be resumed in September, we will serve some pastries & soda to mark this special occasion.

Social Media

According to Alexa - a web traffic measuring organization, YouTube ranks 3rd in the world in popularity with google.com being the first. YouTube  is a video-sharing website & can be considered a free-to-use promotional platform.

This workshop will examine how to get your promotional message across using YouTube

Last minute addition: An introduction to email marketing.

WordPress

For our continuing study of WordPress, we will look at the following: 

Adding Audio & Video files to a website

Adding PDF files to a website

Web Applications

We will also examine useful & interesting web apps. This month we will look at Pocket.

Pocket, previously known as Read It Later, is an application for managing a reading list of articles from the Internet. It is available for iOS and Android as well as multiple web browsers. With Pocket, you simply click a button which saves the webpage or the article & you can read it later - even without having an internet connection.

May 14 Workshop

Social Media

A study by Experian shows that more than 91% of adults who go online, use social networks regularly. The use of social networking can direct traffic to your website which  increases the likelihood of people engaging with you and with each other when they visit.

This workshop will examine how to create your network presence using LinkedIn.

• LinkedIn helps you establish a presence online and build the connections you have to others
• Communicating your message via LinkedIn
• How to create a LinkedIn Company Page and posting compelling content
• The power of LinkedIn groups

WordPress

For our continuing study of WordPress, we will look at the following: 

Adding Audio & Video files to a website

Adding PDF files to a website

Web Applications

We will also examine useful & interesting web apps. This month we will look at Pocket.

Pocket, previously known as Read It Later, is an application for managing a reading list of articles from the Internet. It is available for iOS and Android as well as multiple web browsers. With Pocket, you simply click a button which saves the webpage or the article & you can read it later - even without having an internet connection.

April 9th Workshop

WordPress

Last month's wpcug.org demo while interesting, took more time than we planned, so this month's workshop will attempt to cover more  WordPress subjects than usual.  We will look at the following: 

Adding Audio & Video files to a website

Inserting  & Updating  PDFs

Finding Posts & Pages

Using Quick Edit

Using Bulk Actions

Finding Media Files

Deleting Images Used in Multiple Posts

March 12th Workshop

Updating the club's website

We will start this month's workshop with a demonstration of updating the club's website, wpcug.org.  Our website has a unique and dramatic look and it works well for our members as well as for any new visitor.  It loads very quickly and ranks high in Google search results.  It's only drawback is that it was created almost 15 years ago using the FrontPage website creator and this fact makes updating the site somewhat complicated. If you are interested in how our site is updated, then this workshop is for you.

WordPress

After this demo, we will continue with learning WordPress & will look at the following:

Inserting a gallery of images into a post

Adding Audio & Video files to a website

Adding  large documents to a website

February 12th Workshop

We will continue our examination of  building WordPress websites & how social media & Search Engine Optimization is used to draw visitors to a website.

For WordPress we will look at the following areas regarding the use of images:

• The WordPress built in image editor (14A)
• Sizing images in text editor of the dashboard
• The Edit Image window
• Inserting a gallery of images into a post

Then depending on time we can also cover:

• Optimization of a webpage for high search engine ranking

Last minute addition:

• Migrating an older website to WordPress 

January 15th Workshop

We will be continuing with our examination of  building WordPress websites & how social media & Search Engine Optimization is used to draw visitors to your website.

For WordPress we will look at the following:

• How to edit the title, description & hover text for images (13A)
• Image hyperlinks, alignment & sizing
•  Sizing images specifically for the web
• Using the built-in image editor

We can also cover the image hosting website - Flickr

• how it can be used for social media success
• Flickr provides an unbelievable memory storage of 1 terabyte which is free 
• Unlike Facebook, it does not compress images