Office Reliance

Office Reliance hosts the Garden Route's very own Wordpress based web design training course.

"WordPressis a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it."

The course is broken down into several sections, and is presented over three full days of training. Once the course has been completed the student will be able to create and maintain Wordpress based websites.

An additional three days of hands on workshop time is also available for those that feels they need additional 'practice time'.

The course is aimed at web design beginners and does not require any knowledge of HTML or other programming languages.

During the course we will be using the Bitnami Wordpress installation. This will allow us to work on our training PCs and to easily copy the websites we create to other computers.

The course content is as follows:

Working with WordPress

• WordPress explained
• Installing WordPress in a couple of clicks
• Creating Content for your website
• The difference between ‘Posts’ and ‘Pages’
• Managing your content
• Managing WordPress Posts and Pages
• Creating and managing WordPress links
• WordPress ‘Categories’ and ‘Tags’ explained
• Managing WordPress Categories and Tags
• Adding ‘Media’ (pictures, video and audio) to your website
• Managing the WordPress Media Library
• Updating Your WordPress Profile (includes changing your password)
• WordPress ‘Comments’ explained
• Managing WordPress Comments
• How to fight SPAM on your website

Configuring WordPress

• WordPress Settings explained
• Discussion Settings
• Permanent Link Settings
• Privacy Settings
• Reading Settings
• Writing Settings
• Miscellaneous Settings

Customizing WordPress

• Installing and Activating WordPress Themes
• WordPress ‘Plugins’ explained
• Working with Plugins
• WordPress ‘Widgets’ explained
• Working with Widgets
• How to make your Wordpress website search engine friendly

Upgrading WordPress

• Best Practices for Upgrading WordPress
• How to Upgrade WordPress
• How to import and export Data

WordPress Administration

• WordPress ‘Users’ explained
• Managing Users
• Managing Files
• How to back-up your WordPress website

We will provide a printed manual with step by step instructions as well as CD containing all the software used on the course. This will include the Wordpress  installer allowing you to create your own website on your own PC.

The course will run from 9 am to 4 pm each day over 3 days, and will include catered tea breaks as well as a hot lunch.

Cost is R3000 per delegate, VAT incl.

An optional additional 3 days of hands on practical site building is also available, for and additional R2,000 per delegate, VAT incl.

This additional 3 day hands on workshop also includes a free domain name and 1 year of Wordpress website hosting.