Web Design With WordPress: A Content Management System

About the Course:

Participants will learn about web design via the use of WordPress, which is a powerful and robust Content Management System(CMS), designed to make web development and customization via the use of themes, plugins, and widgets a breeze, and has been used to deploy a significant percentage of websites on the internet. They will also gain insight into other web design concepts, such as hosting platforms, what a virtual private server(VPS) is, shared hosting versus virtual private server(VPS) hosting, and the entire web development process in general, from start to finish. 

The class is designed to appeal to those who wish to gain insights into the web development process, or who want to go into web development but don't know certain programming languages required to achieve such feats. Participants can also opt for additional private real-time sessions in order to gain more insight into other concepts they may come across in the class, but might not be clear at first glance. It is advised that participants have considerable access time to a personal computer(with an internet connection) of their choosing, to enable them to get the best/most of the class. On completion of the class, participants will be able to develop stunning websites without necessarily possessing any prior programming experience or skill.

Course Objectives:

• Build a fully functional website using WordPress
• Understand the fundamentals of WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS)
• Learn how to use themes, plugins, and widgets for website customization
• Create and design a website front page
• Develop and structure a complete website from start to finish
• Gain insight into web hosting concepts, including shared hosting and VPS
• Understand the overall web development process
• Customize and finalize a website’s appearance for deployment

Who is the Target Audience?

• Participants seeking to develop/build websites with little or no programming knowledge/experience

Basic Knowledge:

• Significant access time to a personal computer(preferably one with a Core i3 processor, at least 4GB of RAM, and a 300GB Hard Disk Drive minimum) with an internet connection