About this course
Building a website with Wordpress from scratch for your business can seem daunting -- it doesn't need to be.
With a brand-new WordPress theme, Twentytwelve, you can make a completely unique, branded website, without using Photoshop, hiring a designer, or spending hours of sweat and toil on your site.
This How to Build A Website With Wordpress From Scratch course is for the entrepreneur, small business owner or creative who wants to know *just enough* about WordPress to create a killer website all their own.
Because it's completely up to date on all the features of WordPress 3+, and the brand-new default theme Twentytwelve, it's a great course for those who have some familiarity with WordPress but want to take their skills to the next level.
By focusing not only on building you a great site but also on branding, it will further help you launch a site well positioned stand out and get surfaced in search.
In this how to build a website with Wordpress from scratch course, you'll follow along a set of short lectures while building your own website. You'll learn how to make a child theme (but you'll also be able to download a sample).
What you'll have at the end of the course:
A cool-looking, mobile-responsive website that has custom web fonts and a strong, branded positioning without a lot of muss or fuss.
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What you won't get:
- A cookie-cutter site based on a theme that looks like everyone else's
- A better understanding of Adobe products like Photoshop and Illustrator (though they are helpful, you don't need them and they aren't covered)
- A deep look at theme functions in PHP (because all the customizations we're doing can be done in CSS)
Take this ultimate course right now and learn how to build a website with Wordpress from scratch.
What are the requirements?
- Basic computer literacy
- An ability/desire to secure a domain and web hosting account
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 33 lectures and 1.5 hours of content!
- A honed positioning statement for your business or creative project
- You own, well-branded, custom website with cool-looking Google fonts
- An understanding of how WordPress works
- An ability to create a child theme
- An introduction to using CSS to style your site, as well as tools that will help you learn more
- Ideas on taking your customization further
What is the target audience?
- Small Businesses
- Creative Individuals
- Solopreneuers
- People who need to bring WordPress skills up to date