Build Your Own WordPress Website free Ebook

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WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS): it allows you to create and maintain a website through an administrative interface, including an automatically-generated navigation structure (page menu bar etc), without needing to know HTML or learn any other tool. It is simple enough for a beginner to learn in a few hours, without sacrificing any power or flexibility. You can do virtually anything with it.

WordPress is an Open Source Software: created by thousands of programmers all over the world and put into the public domain, so you do not have to pay to use it

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WordPress is a web-based application, written in PHP and MySQL, designed to run on Linux servers: PHP is a programming language for web applications, MySQL is a relational database (such as Microsoft Access), and Linux is an operating system for web servers – all of these are also open-source.

WordPress is, by far, the most popular CMS: over 200 million sites worldwide as of late 2009.

WordPress is an excellent platform for creating a small business or professional website. Even though it was originally designed as a blogging platform, it works very well for creating ordinary (static) websites as well. It’s also great for membership sites (sites where you sell you content for a fee).

WordPress comes with thousands of free themes (templates or styles) and plugins (add-on applications). Changing your theme or adding a plugin is extremely easy.

Many WordPress users and developers consider it the “shangri-la” of website development – the elusive goal of simple and powerful website development for non-technical people is now here. Previous platforms were either too difficult to learn (Joomla and Drupal CMS’s), proprietary and too limited (Godaddy’s “Website tonight”), or expensive.

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Topics covered in this eBook includes:

WordPress hosting options Basic concepts: site elements and layout
Theme selection: your best choices
Configuring WordPress for a business website
Understanding Posts, Pages and Links
Using sidebars and widgets
Creating content: the WP built-in Visual editor
Installing plugins, and a recommended plugin set
Basic Atahualpa theme styling and configuration
Creating rich content with Windows Live Writer or Blogo
Making a website banner using free image-editing software
Fast Traffic to your WordPress blog: how to perform a quick keyword analysis and search-engine optimization for your site and start immediately attracting search-engine traffic
Atahualpa theme styling guide: In-depth styling guide to this powerful free theme framework, including instructions on using the 20+ pages of theme options
Advanced WordPress SEO
Creating a WordPress membership site
Becoming a professional blogger

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4

What you will learn from this eBook ………………………………………………………………………………. 4

How to find out more …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4

1. Building Your WordPress Installation

What is WordPress …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6

WordPress Hosting options ………………………………………………………………………………………… 6

Understanding self-hosted WordPress sites vs. WordPress.com ………………………………………… 6

Understanding domain and hosting ………………………………………………………………………………. 6

Choosing a webhost and domain registrar ……………………………………………………………………… 7

To assign a domain name to a hosting account ………………………………………………………………. 8

Installing WordPress on your hosting account …………………………………………………………………. 9

Creating email accounts with your domain name ……………………………………………………………. 9

2. Customizing Your Website or Blog

WordPress basic concepts & layouts ………………………………………………………………………….. 11

Theme Selection …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 12

Finding a good theme ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 12

Installing and activating your theme ……………………………………………………………………………. 13

How to customize (style) a theme ………………………………………………………………………………… 13

Special instructions for Atahualpa theme users ……………………………………………………………… 14

Understanding Posts, Pages and Links………………………………………………………………………… 14

Basic WordPress configuration …………………………………………………………………………………. 15

Sidebars and Widgets ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 16

Additional help on Widgets and navigating the User Interface ………………………………………… 19

Installing a recommended Plugin set …………………………………………………………………………. 20

Creating a banner for your website ……………………………………………………………………………. 21

Using the WordPress built-in Visual Editor ………………………………………………………………….. 29

Windows Live Writer and Blogo (on Mac OS X) ……………………………………………………………. 29

Conclusion …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 31

About the author & Contact Details …………………………………………………………………………… 31

Don’t miss out on our other cool manuals! ……………………………………………………………………….. 32

About the Author:

Marc Beneteau is a website developer, trainer, internet marketer and entrepreneur. He lives in Philadelphia where he spends his time coaching clients on how to build attractive and effective websites, writing, teaching, parenting two teenagers, and making sushi.

CONCLUSION

In this guide I have tried to lay out the basic concepts and knowledge you need to design an attractive and functional website using WordPress. Hopefully this has been useful to you (obviously it has, if you have read this far  )

Of course there is much more that you can learn and do with WordPress – unlike most any other content management system ever produced, WordPress is not only free and easy enough for a beginner to use, it also allows infinite degree of customization and control.

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