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Build your own Website

Build yourself a website that costs less than £50.

This two-day course will involve holding your hand as you build your own website that you can change and update later.

You will use free Wordpress software to develop a small website that you can expand afterwards. You will be able to choose the template that best suits you and then adapt it to include your own web colour scheme and typeface style as well as use your own image or artwork as a masthead. You will learn to input and format text, insert images and decide how large to make them and whether or not to run text to the left or right of them.

You will learn to add “widgets” enabling you to add different functions to your site, such as enabling you to update your site via email (from your mobile phone if your mobile supports email).

You will learn to create galleries of your work, to link to online examples and to upload pdfs, jpegs or other documents that show off your work. And you will know how to insert video and photo slideshows, either directly or from hosting sites, such as Flickr and You Tube.

You will leave the course with a working website and the knowledge to expand it and refine it later.

Who Should Attend

Anyone wanting a website they can control and compile themselves, rather than paying an expensive consultant to create.

You will be expected to bring with you a memory stick with the words, images and other content on it. You will need to register your own domain name and buy webspace in advance (all for less than £50) – we will send you instructions in advance but this must be completed at least 48 hours before the course begins. We will not be able to wait for anyone who has not done this before the course starts.

Creating this kind of website would suit writers, artists and photographers wanting to showcase their work and provide information about themselves. It would also suit community and campaigning groups needing websites, hobbyists wanting to document their activities and other small businesses.

Nb. Photographers wishing to run secure online purchasing of print-resolution images will require a more expensive hosting and software package so this course would NOT be appropriate.

Qualifications

You should be computer literate and let us know which computer system you would prefer to use – we will offer Mac OSX and Windows XP.

Expected Learning Outcomes

1. You will have your own domain name and personalised email address
2. You will have your own five or six page website
3. You will know how to create new pages and edit existing ones
4. You will know how to input images, slideshows and video
5. You will know how to expand the functions on your website
6. You will know how to update your website by email, from your mobile phone (if your mobile supports email).
7. You will be able to link your facebook and twitter feeds to your website

Suggested content might include:

Masthead image – if you have a logo or design then bring along any artwork that you have. If you want a particular image please bring it with you. You may have to adapt it to fit a template so do not spend hours fine-tuning a design that might not fit on the day (you can always fine-tune it later).

About me – A few short paragraphs about you followed by a more detailed CV (or your CV could be a separate page). Your CV could link to places you have worked, to items of work or to files you can load onto your website (music, sound recordings, images, video, PDFs etc). You might want at least one image of you included or some images of your work to break up the page.

My work – Text detailing examples of your work, and perhaps images showing your work – would a gallery of images that each linked to an individual example of your work be best? Bring the images and a list of all the links. If you want to use such things as magazine covers, then please make sure you have scanned them in in advance. If you provide more than one service, you might want separate pages for each (news-writing, features, subbing, corporate work, PR etc).

News/blog – the template will allow for a blog page. You can use to blog or write news stories about what you are up to or latest commissions/examples of work etc. It is possible to set this up so that you can email from your mobile phone (if it offers email) from wherever you are in the world.

Further courses to consider: Apart from my web course, other courses to consider taking would be Writing for the web, Setting up a Blog Introduction and Introduction to online publishing

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Date added: 2009-06-05
Last modified: Monday, August 24, 2009
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FORTHCOMING DATES
Build your own Website on 15/09/2010
Build your own Website on 14/10/2010

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