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Forthcoming Marketing and Selling Online Workshops

Build & Maintain your own Website

 

Workshop Summary

Are you tired of waiting for a free 'slot' with your web designer every time you want a small change to your website?

Is the expense of all those small changes getting you down?

Would you like to a have a website you can easily keep up to date yourself and get those all important search engine friendly elements right?

This full-day workshop will show you how you can build your own website as well as optimise and maintain it yourself using the world's favourite FREE content management web builder, WordPress. The workshop will show you how you can download and install wordpress, choose a design and add content - all completely free of charge. It will also introduce you to the wide range of add-ons you can use to enhance your website.

Workshop Description

The course is not 'hands-on' in depth instruction but rather a jargon-free overview of the process of building and maintaining a WordPress website and answers the key questions you may have. Anyone who can use a word processor effectively can learn how to use WordPress.

Workshop Content

This course covers:

  • Introduction to WordPress, what it is and what it can do for you
  • How to download and install WordPress onto your own web hosting account
  • Setting up WordPress for action
  • Ensuring a secure installation
  • Choosing a WordPress template design to suit your business
  • Free or paid templates, advantages and disadvantages
  • Adding and editing content to your website
  • Using plug-ins (add-ons) to customise your website
  • Making your WordPress website search engine friendly
  • DIY versus using a WordPress professional – the pro’s & con’s.
  • Finally, you will develop an action plan that you can follow back in your business

Who Should Attend

  • Any business owner /manager who does not currently have a website.
  • Any business owner /manager who is struggling to optimise a static website for the search engines.
  • Any business owner /manager who wants to manage their own website.

Includes fully comprehensive notes, resources & action plans to help you implement your learning.

Also includes lunch and refreshments.