Web Design with WordPress (CMS) Training Course

WordPress Training Course Price: £150.00 excl. VAT (£180.00 incl. VAT)
Total Duration: 8 Hours
Course level: Beginner
Delivery Method: Instructor Led Classroom Training
Certification: Certificate of Completion will be provided after completing the course

Course Overview:
This course will provide you the necessary skills to build, manage and run a beautiful website or blog by using WordPress. You can create anything from personal blogs to professional websites within a short span of time. It is also a powerful content management system (CMS). No coding is required. You will be able to design your blog/website by using the readymade WordPress templates. The course is designed for beginners and it explains about WordPress installation, configuration, creating a site, adding content, images, videos, using themes, widgets, plugins, publishing the site and beyond. You get to work on a project while doing this course.

Skills Required

No previous experience of Web design, HTML, CSS is required. You should have basic experience using computers and web browsers. This includes:

  • able to use keyboard and mouse
  • know how to create, save, move and rename files

If you do not have basic computer and Internet skills then we highly recommend you to attend our Computer Basics for Absolute Beginners course before attending this course.

Course Dates, Prices & Enrolment

Training MethodDatesPrice (incl. VAT) 
Classroom Training 08 Jul 2019 - 10 Jul 2019
Monday & Wednesday 		£180Enrol Now
Classroom Training 14 Sep 2019 - 21 Sep 2019
2 Saturdays 		£180Enrol Now
Classroom Training 30 Sep 2019 - 02 Oct 2019
Monday & Wednesday 		£180Enrol Now
  1. Getting Started with WordPress
    • What is WordPress and its advantages
    • Domain Name Registration and Web Hosting
    • Difference between Self Hosting and Free Cloud Hosting
    • Downloading and Uploading WordPress to your host
    • Installing WordPress with the 5 minutes install
    • Installing WordPress manually
  2. Setting up WordPress
    • Logging in WordPress admin area
    • Familiarise with the WordPress Dashboard
    • Editing the user profile
    • Configuring the Dashboard settings
  3. Adding the right content to your WordPress site
    • About posts and pages
    • Difference between pages and posts
    • Creating pages
    • Organising page hierarchy
    • Creating a static front page
  4. Blogging with WordPress
    • Creating posts
    • Text formatting in a new post
    • Creating and managing links
    • Adding Images, Youtube Videos and Audios
    • Adding an image gallery
    • Adding post categories, tags and other elements
  5. Customising WordPress
    • Installing and activating themes
    • Exploring the themes option
    • Installing plugins and using them
    • Info about various widgets and working with them
    • Setting up custom background and header images
    • Creating custom menus and custom widgets
  6. Launching Your WordPress Site and After
    • Submitting the site to search engines
    • Managing WordPress users and permission levels
    • Managing comments and controlling spam
    • Backing up a WordPress site
    • Restoring a WordPress site from crash
    • Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
    • Adding social media options like facebook, twitter and many more

Course Tutors

The course instructor is a front-end developer who runs a freelance web design and digital marketing business. She studied graphic design and web technologies at university, and today her skillset encompasses HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AngularJS, Wordpress and SEO.

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