Using WordPress, with DVD [Paperback]

Using WordPress, with DVD [Paperback]

WordPress has grown into the #1 blogging tool in its category: several million bloggers have downloaded this powerful open source software, and millions more are using WordPress.com's hosted services. Thirty-two of Technorati's Top 100 blogs now use WordPress. Using Wordpress is a customized, media-rich learning experience designed to help new users master Wordpress quickly, and get the most out of it, fast! It starts with a concise, friendly, straight-to-the-point guide to Wordpress. This exceptional book is fully integrated with an unprecedented collection of online learning resources: online video, screencasts, podcasts, and additional web content, all designed to reinforce key concepts and help users achieve real mastery. The book and interactive content work together to teach everything mainstream Wordpess users need to know. This practical, approachable coverage guides readers through getting started fast, and covers the recent release of Wordpress 3. This major upgrade includes built-in image editor and the ability to host multiple blogs from one WordPress install. This new version of Using Wordpress adds a DVD, so that all the interactive material previously available only online is now also available for offline reading and study.

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Teach Yourself Visually WordPress [Paperback]

Teach Yourself Visually WordPress [Paperback]

Get your blog up and running with WordPress

Are you itching to share your thoughts with the world through blogging but aren't sure how? Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress introduces you to one of the most popular, easy-to-use blogging platforms: WordPress. This book's clear directions and visual approach helps you to quickly get started in WordPress and then take full advantage of all its features. Janet Majure, an experienced and popular WordPress user, demonstrates key points with examples from her blogs.

• Provides visual step-by-step instructions for creating and setting up a WordPress site


• Explains how to create engaging written and visual content


• Shares advice on customizing sites through use of plug-ins and themes and custom site editing


• Details more advanced procedures for self-hosted bloggers, including buying a domain, getting a Web host, and installing WordPress

The blogosphere beckons! Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress Brimming with clear instructions and exciting ideas for building a successful blog on WordPress.

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WordPress 24-Hour Trainer: Watch, Read, and Learn How to Create and Customize WordPress Sites (Book & DVD) [Paperback]

WordPress 24-Hour Trainer: Watch, Read, and Learn How to Create and Customize WordPress Sites (Book & DVD) [Paperback]

Don't let WordPress intimidate you. WordPress 24-Hour Trainer is a unique lesson-based book that walks you through the essential parts of WordPress. Each lesson is streamlined to teach a specific aspect of WordPress, helping you to focus on just what you need in order to get the task accomplished. If you learn better visually, this book provides you with a video to accompany each lesson.

This book is the perfect guide to

• Planning and preparing your site for WordPress


• Installing WordPress


• Writing, tagging, and publishing a post


• Working with the text editor


• Styling paragraphs and creating lists


• Working with media files


• Linking, aligning, and sizing an image


• Working with image galleries


• Adding video and audio


• Naming, scheduling, and managing posts


• Making your site stand out


• Helping others connect to your site


• Becoming search engine friendly


• Optimizing your site


• Backing up your site


• Installing and activating plugins

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Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress [Paperback]

Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress [Paperback]

WordPress is one of the most popular, easy-to-use blogging platforms and allows you to create a dynamic and engaging blog, even if you have no programming skills or experience. Ideal for the visual learner, Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress, Second Edition introduces you to the exciting possibilities of the newest version of WordPress and helps you get started, step by step, with creating and setting up a WordPress site. Author and experienced WordPress user Janet Majure shares advice, insight, and best practices for taking full advantage of all that WordPress has to offer.

• Presents completely updated coverage of new mobile blogging solutions


• Shares advice on customizing sites through use of plug-ins and themes and custom site editing


• Details more advanced procedures for self-hosted bloggers, including buying a domain, getting a web host, and installing WordPress


• Demonstrates key points with examples from the author's own WordPress blogs

Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress, Second Edition clears the air around any blog fog you may find yourself in and gets you started with creating your own dynamic WordPress blog today!

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WordPress Revealed: How to Build a Website, Get Visitors and Make Money (Even For Beginners) (Volume 1) [Paperback]

WordPress Revealed: How to Build a Website, Get Visitors and Make Money (Even For Beginners) (Volume 1) [Paperback]

#1 Bestseller on Amazon!

In this incredibly in-depth guide to WordPress, Matt Wolfe (of TheWPClassroom.com fame) gives an amazing amount of detail on pretty much everything you need to know to get started with WordPress. From all of the basics of getting a site online to advanced strategies of traffic generation and monetization. 

Gone are the days of hiring expensive coders to fix your website or spending thousands of dollars developing membership sites or ecommerce sites. WordPress makes these things simple to do YOURSELF. 

With WordPress Revealed, you will learn:

• How to get your first website online within 10 minutes.


• How to customize the look and feel of the site.


• How to add plugins to change the functionality of a site.


• Which plugins EVERY site must have.


• How to make sure you never run out of ideas for content on your site.


• What the most effective blog posts are to generate buzz.


• How to generate loads of traffic to any website (even if it's not WordPress)


• Monetization strategies to make money with your site.


• Plus many more tips and tricks to make your website as beautiful and effective as possible.

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Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS [Paperback]

Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS [Paperback]

With over 60,000 copies sold since its first edition, this SitePoint best-seller has just had a fresh update to include recent advances in the web industry.

With the first two editions coming highly recommended by established, leading web designers and developers, the third edition with all its extra goodies will continue that trend. Also fully updated to include the latest operating systems, web browsers and providing fixes to issues that have cropped up since the last edition.

Readers will learn to:

• Style text and control your page layout with CSS


• Create and Optimize graphics for the Web


• Add interactivity to your sites with forms


• Include a custom search, contact us page, and a News/Events section on your site


• Track visitors with Google Analytics


• Extend your reach and connect your site with Social Media


• Use HTML5&CSS3 to add some cool, polished features to your site


• Use diagnosis/debug tools to find any problems

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Build a Website for Free (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

Build a Website for Free (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

Build yourself a state-of-the-art website.

It’s incredibly easy...and it won’t cost you a dime!

You need a website. But you don’t need the hassles that usually go with building one or the expense of hiring someone else to do it. Here’s your solution: Build a Website for Free! You’ll learn how you can use new Web 2.0 technologies to create a site that’s impressive and effective. And here’s the best part: You’ll do it all with software and tools that won’t cost you a dime!

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  Plan, organize, and design a site that really works, using tools you can find for free


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  Discover the simple secrets of writing pages people want to read


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  Adapt your site for easy viewing on mobile devices


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  Use video on your site--and get someone else to pay for hosting it


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  Add an easy-to-update blog and start building your own web community


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  Quickly and easily handle “nuts and bolts” tasks, from getting your site name to uploading your content


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  Get your site picked up by Google, Yahoo!, and other search engines

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