Teaching WordPress and not installing WordPress

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In addition to breaking new ground for myself by presenting my class slides from my iPad, in my Building Websites with WordPress class on Saturday (there might still be space available) I’m also trying something pretty new (for me) in teaching how to use WordPress—I’m going to focus 90% of the class using just WordPress.com. [...]

Want to learn WordPress? Learn with me at BCIT!

Well timed that it is with the soon-to-be-released Using WordPress, I’m teaching a pair of classes on consecutive Monday evenings through BCIT. The first is Monday Sept 13th—BCIT : : MDIA 0101 – WordPress.com for beginners 1—and is suitable for beginners, followed by Monday Sept 20th—BCIT : : MDIA 0102 – WordPress.com for beginners 2—which [...]

Building Websites with WordPress Class Slides

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During today’s class, several people asked if the slides would be made available online… So here they are: You can download a PDF version or view the slides on iWork.com Beta. One fantastic surprise from today’s class was that WordPress.com now supports WordPress 3.0 menus: While only the new Twenty Ten theme can use the [...]

Building Websites with WordPress Course Outline

In case you’d like to know what I cover when I teach my Building Websites with WordPress class, I’ve uploaded the course outline to iWork.com and you can download a PDF version of it for yourself. Directly related to this outline is that I’m often asked if I’m teaching the class at other times, the [...]

Building Websites with WordPress (for Normal People) Next Week: Do you have a domain?

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Next Saturday (May 29th) I get to teach one of my favourite classes: Building Websites with WordPress (for Normal People). Although it’s one of my favourite classes to teach, it’s also the one that poses logistical problems to teach it really well. First, here’s how the class is described in the UBC course catalogue: Build [...]

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