February workshop

February's workshop has been moved from February 13 to February 20th.  I will post the agenda as we get closer to the 20th.

January 9th Workshop

Happy New Year!

During the first hour of the workshop we will cover the lessons from the book we are using.  This month the topics will be the following:

• Categories & Tags
• Working with the Text Editor
• Creating Lists
• Adding a new page

Then during the second hour we will continue building a WordPress website using the theme we selected in December's workshop.

We will be meeting at 7 PM  at Stepinac,  in room G1, in the basement.  We have a new projector & a good screen & so now we have a high quality image to work with.

December 12th Workshop

Starting December 12, we will initiate a new format for the workshop.  During the first hour we will cover outstanding issues from the last workshop and then continue with the lessons from the book we are following.  Then during the second hour we will be building a WordPress website from scratch.  I have already selected the subject matter for this site & will divulge the details at the workshop itself.

So during the first hour we will be increasing our knowledge of WordPress, while during the second we will put this knowledge to practical use.

Other topics will include:  a method for creating site maps & a method for creating nested numerical lists.

November 14 Workshop

We will resume our investigation of static & dynamic pages in WordPress.  A static page is equivalent to a normal webpage & changes to it are infrequent.  Whereas, a dynamic page is a blogging page where posts are added to it on an on-going basis.  This concept was not clearly defined in the last workshop & we will attempt to resolve it.

Then we will continue following the textbook & cover the following:

• Categories & Tags
• Working with the Text Editor
• Creating Lists
• Adding a new page

October 10 Workshop

We will be continuing with our study of the WordPress blogging system which we will use to build a website.

In this second in the series workshop, will be slightly different than the first.  Based on comments from attendees, this workshop will not only cover the use & features of WordPress but at the same time we will be building a website from scratch.  This website will be used to demonstrate the topics as described in the textbook we are using.   Topics for this workshop will include:

• Getting started - installing WordPress
• Categories & Tags
• Working with the Text Editor
• Creating Lists
• Adding a new page

Reply to comment:

The workshop is considered to be a beginners workshop.

September 5th Workshop

Hope everybody had a great summer & Labor Day.

Temporarily, we will put the Expression Web design tool aside & take up the study of WordPress which we will use as a Content Management System (CMS).  A CMS presents content on the web & can be thought of as a website. For the Sept. 5 workshop we will cover the following:

• Introduction to  WordPress
• Planning the site
• Examine the WordPress dashboard
• Using the text editor
• Styling paragraphs, lists
• Creating posts
• Adding a new page

You can also checkout the page (tab) - Labeled, "WordPress 24Hr. Trainer Book" for table of contents of the book we will be using. This tab is part of the top navigation bar starting with Home on the left.

or use this link:  Table of Contents page

Testing Incoming Links

Testing to see if this link will show up as incoming link on the martello blog.

http://martello44.wordpress.com  or

deglindesigns.com