WordPress: Create Websites & Blogs
Learn how to create a website or blog and edit and upload content.
Course overview
This course will give you the skills to build a beautiful, responsive WordPress site that looks great on all devices while retaining creative control of your content.
You'll learn to create websites and blogs using WordPress, one of the most popular website platforms in the world. In this course we'll look at WordPress.org and WordPress.com, the main differences and which one will suit your needs: whether you're a blogger or you're looking for website. We'll cover creating a website or blog, editing and uploading content and all the functionality available to you.
What you'll learn
- How to set up your own WordPress.com site
- Naming your website/blog
- Choosing a suitable theme
- Navigating the dashboard
- Adding and editing content
- Adding extra functionality with 'widgets'
- Engaging your audience with your blog/website
- WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
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Please note: this course does not include Falmouth Journal
Susannah Travis - Course Lead
Susannah is the Digital Skills Team Lead and delivers a range of courses. She has over a decade of experience delivering Adobe and Microsoft courses on an individual and tailored group basis. Her aim is to enable students to achieve a high level of digital literacy to help their work and everyday lives.
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