5. Things You’d Need to Start An email address – Google, Yahoo, etc. are fine Ideas for a url/site name Choose several and avoid the most common Your free url will be xxxxxx.wordpress.com General idea of your site ‘feel’ Mostly text? Mostly pictures? Contemporary? Classic?
15. What is WordPress Originally developed as a blog platform (.org) Added in a hosted version (.com) Open source platform for blogs and also heavily used as a website platform/content management system (CMS) WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today Value? Cheap – often free! Easy to use Lots of options & add ons
52. Create Your Website These are work like they do in Word … but don’t use the ‘Paste from Word’ feature
53. Copying Text From Word Select your text in the word document. ‘Copy’ Open your notepad Paste text into your notepad Copy this text from your notepad Paste notepad text onto your site Look for this item – usually under accessories
63. Widgets Piece of computer code – already written and self-contained Instructions that tell your site/computer to do ‘something’ Pulls information in from another site Does complex tasks easily Creates a uniform and consistent display Many/most WordPress themes are widget enabled Drag & drop from the widget list into footers and sidebars Limited (but solid) list of widgets available in the free version Many more widgets and plug-ins available in hosted versions
82. Other Free & Low Cost Resources MailChimp: Email platform and newsletters for up to 2,000 subscribers and up to 12,000 emails per month http://mailchimp.com/pricing/free/ DropBox: File storage & transfer – 2 gig free, syncs with your computer, deleted files can be restored for up to 30 days. https://www.dropbox.com/ Formstack: creates great forms which can be linked from your website; free version offers 3 Forms • 10 Fields/Form • 50 Saved Entries/Form • 1 User https://www.formstack.com/admin/user/signup?type=free
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14.7% of the entire web (top 1 million sites) are running on WordPress22 of every 100 new active domains are running on WordPress