Small Business Website in 1 Hour Recording, with Marc Beneteau

Recording of the webinar that took place on Monday March 4, 2013. This is a strong foundational video on WordPress core functionality – a complete short WordPress training. Highly recommended.

Video

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Video Table of Contents

• Introduction [0:00]
• Agenda [0:30]
• About WP Academy and the problem of traditional website design [2:00]
• WordPress: What & Why [4:10]
• Installing WordPress on cPanel hosting [7:35]
• Anatomy of a WordPress website [10:00]
• Adding pages, Using the Visual Editor [13:30]
• Configuring WordPress as a static site [15:30]
• Working with the Visual Editor & Adding Images [16:37]
• Hyperlinking; Removing home page title & commend box [20:24]
• Adding a new theme [23:35]
• Theme discussion ; Theme selection grid [25:15]
• Customizing the Weaver theme; Installing the header; Weaver child themes [27:45]
• Adding simple navigation bar; adding drop-down navigation bar [31:35]
• Modifying theme colors and fonts; Colorzilla plugin for Firefox [35:25]
• Working with Widgets; Using Recent Posts widget; CHanging default Post Category [39:30]
• Using the Text Widget: Add a newsletter subscription box to your sidebar [42:35]
• Posting a Youtube video [44:30]
• How to find out more: WP Academy products & Services [49:06]

Here is the site that we made in 1 hour

Resources mentioned in the webinar

•Recommended Free Theme Frameworks: Weaver and Atahualpa

•Inexpensive header designs: Fiverr.com and Odesk.com