WordPress:  Class 3

1.  Review
  • Primary vs. Social Menus
  • Customizer
  • Plugins
  • Widgets
  • jpg/png/gif

    2.  Submit your website/blog:

3.  Sharing your website
  • Share websites, answer questions, and offer feedback
  • Does your website meet goals?

4.  SEO
  • Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a web search engine's unpaid results — often referred to as "natural," "organic," or "earned" results.
  • ​Watch video about SEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veptb2WEBbc
  • Watch video for homework

5.  Working with HTML
  • Whatever you see on screen has a version of HTML behind it
  • It is helpful to know HTML when using WordPress so that you can further customize your site

6.  Key terms/concepts
  • HTML - HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language; it is a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on the internet
  • A basic understanding of HTML can help you get more out of your WordPress.com site
TEXTBOOK
  • No textbook is required

SESSIONS
  • 4 sessions
  • Campus map can be found here.
6.  Key terms/concepts
  • < and > - HTML code always starts and ends with the angled brackets
  • < > -  opening HTML code
  • </> - closing HTML code
  • <b> - HTML bold text
    • <b>insert your text here</b>
  • <em> - HTML emphasis text; italics
    • <strong>insert your text here</strong>
  • <u> - HTML underlined text
    • <u>underlined text</u>
  • <strike> - HTML strikethrough text
    • <strike>strikethrough</strike>
  • <br> - HTML single line break
    • empty tag that has no end tag
  • Hex code - sets the color using hex
    • <FONT COLOR="######">text text text text text</FONT>

8.  HTML Colors
  • Hexadecimal - "hex" for short is a six-digit, three-byte number used in HTML to represent colors. 

9.  &amp - a way to "print" a non-coded special character on screen; a way for a special character to show visibly on the web, without being mistaken for code 
10.  CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
  • Describes how HTML elements are to be displayed on screen, paper, or in other media. CSS saves a lot of work. It can control the layout of multiple web pages all at once. External stylesheets are stored in CSS files.

11.  Permissions
  • WordPress uses a concept of Roles, designed to give the site owner the ability to control what users can and cannot do within the site. A site owner can manage the user access to such tasks as writing and editing posts, creating Pages, defining links, creating categories, moderating comments, managing plugins, managing themes, and managing other users, by assigning a specific role to each of the users.