The One-Hour Website: Bootstrap Your Next Online Initiative with WordPress

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In this practical demonstration, we talked about options for people who want to make their own websites but may not have a vast amount of technical know-how and design expertise, and then walked step-by-step through making a non-blog website with a custom look and features for a nonprofit initiative using the WordPress platform, including: * What types of initiatives are best served by a microsite or website * The basics of setting up a hosting account for your website * How to take a template and make it match your current branding or infrastructure--or how to create something completely new. * Making sure your website has fully integrated social options * Working with plug-ins that will enhance the functionality of your website.

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The One-Hour Website

Waiting for Web Redevelopment

We need a new website.

Yes, we need a new website.

They do not move.

Waiting for Web Redevelopment

What are the obstacles?

money

politics

fear “That’s not my job.”

“That’s not your job.”

staffing

Don’t know how The board will never go for it.

Easier to do nothing

What are the obstacles?

• Discovering the possibilities of WordPress

• The rapid adoption of Facebook Open Graph across the web

What is WordPress?

Open Source Content Management Framework

WordPress definitions

Rapid, scalable development that is built

around content

WordPress definitions

Who’s using WordPress?

A website is a box.

Header

Body Sidebar

footer

Three rules for rocking for your non-profit initiatives:

Make it not a blog.

Make it social.

Make it your own.

Tips on learning: 1. Set up a sandbox for

yourself. 2. Try 2010 weaver

3. Visit wordpress.org/showcase 4. Don't think, do!.

@amandamccormick amanda@jellybeanboom.com

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