Intro to Blogging course resources

Final Project

• Your blog, with
  • an appropriately chosen theme
  • a page describing your blog’s purpose
  • at least two on-topic posts (use the shorter posts on my site as a guideline for length)
    • tagged, and in categories
    • one of which has a featured image (if your theme doesn’t support featured images, talk to me!)
  • a customized widget
  • something embedded via shortcodes, or a form

Submitting your Final Project

Email me (or use the Contact Form to send)

• Your name
• Your email address
• The address (URL) of your blog

Day One – Introduction

• Blogging Course Day One

Resources

• Customize My Site
• Creating Content in WordPress.com (Follow “Add a Personal Touch”)
• How to customize the Academica theme
• An example site I created using the Academica theme – All the functionality you see here is part of the Acamedica theme, with the exception of the Members gallery
• Bruce Schneier: write your password down
• Passphra.se – memorable, secure passphrases

Day Two

• Day Two Slides

Downloads for the demo blog

• header.jpg – for the top of your demo site
• featured.jpg – for your example post
• lipsum1.txt and lipsum2.txt – placeholder text for your post and page

Resources

• Public Domain Stock Photography
  • http://pixabay.com/
  • http://publicphoto.org/
  • http://www.sxc.hu/
  • http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
• Creative Commons Photography
  • http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
  • http://compfight.com/
  • http://search.creativecommons.org/
• WordPress.com shortcodes

Day Three

No slides for today. We’ll be reviewing Day Two, and I’ll be working with you on your final projects

Learning More

• Safari Tech Books Online at the Toronto Public Library – thousands of tech books online, you just need a TPL library card
• WP Beginner – a good next-step from this course
• WordPress on Sitepoint
• WP101 at NetTuts