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Today we’re going to jump right in and dramatically change the look of your site by installing a theme! Our first video will help you choose your theme and then we’ll tackle downloading it. Last time you became very familiar with WordPress and all the settings and usability. If you missed it or need to [Continue Reading]
Creating depth in your website can help give viewers a sense of realism. This technique can make your designs more visually appealing, whether logos, graphics or images. It is a great way to put emphasis on certain page elements. Adding depth to your web designs will make them more memorable. We will discuss five web [Continue Reading]
Before we dive into some more videos for building your site using WordPress, you should understand how visitors are going to view your website. Each website you build should have a smooth user experience in order to get the results you want from your site. Depending on your client, the results they expect could be [Continue Reading]
Welcome to Week 4 of The Successful Web Designer and the “Start Your Web Design Business Now” Bootcamp! This week you’re going to learn how to build your first website! Building Your First Website Web Design and Development Tools Options There are thousands of tools available for designing and developing websites and there are more [Continue Reading]
In our last lesson we addressed your client’s keywords and established a good foundation for you in SEO… If you missed it or need to review it, you can find it here. Today, you’ll learn how to set up hosting for your site and purchase a domain! Hosting and Domains If your client does not [Continue Reading]
In our last lesson we introduced you to Search Engine Optimization… If you missed it or need to review it, you can find it here. Today, let’s get started on your client’s keywords! Keywords If you remember from earlier, keywords are the words or phrases in the website copy that visitors will search for (i.e. [Continue Reading]
In 2003, the Vice President at O’Reilly Media, Dale Dougherty, coined the phrase “Web 2.0.” This was used to describe the great changes that had taken place in the Internet over the ten years since it came into being. This has led many of us to wonder, “When will we see Web 3.0 and what [Continue Reading]
Welcome to Week 3 of The Successful Web Designer and the “Start Your Web Design Business Now” Bootcamp! This week you’re going to learn how to set up hosting and your domain name for your website and SEO (search engine optimization)! We will cover SEO extensively later, but it’s important to have some understanding of [Continue Reading]
Topic: How To Get More Traffic To Any Website Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes In our live class this month we covered the five major categories all traffic falls into. We explained each category and how to use each area to increase traffic to your site. The students were full of great questions. We covered [Continue Reading]
WordPress makes building websites – and customizing them – an easy task. Finding a ready-made theme for WordPress helps the web designer create a website that is both functional and visually appealing. And if you can find the WordPress theme free…well… even better! Today we will share Part Two of our series showcasing our favorite [Continue Reading]
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