WordPress Crash Course for the beginner
This is a great web design & WordPress Workshop for Beginners.Create a simple website in less than four hours. If a 5th grader has done it, you can do it too.
Locations: Houston,Texas, Lafayette ( Lousiana ) , New Orleans, New Iberia, Atlanta, Georgia
Dates available: March 28-April 12, 2012
Cost of workshop : $ 200 for a 5 hour class, Time slots ( am or pm ) Morning class is from 8 am – 1 pm, Afternoon class is from 1 – 6 pm. You can attend weekdays or weekends. All classes must be paid with Paypal in full 5 days before the class.
Create a website without using Dreamweaver and PHP. Learning is easy with my unique teaching method. I will show you how to build a site in less than 4 hours. You will learn how to set up a domain name & find a host to park your website. I recommend WordPress for beginners versus Drupal & Joomla but I can also teach you the differences from all the 3 most popular CMS ( Content management system ).
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Learn web design from a pro
Beginners to web design and programming, this is the class for you. Why spend a fortune on web page design and development when you can learn how to do it yourself. Or you can get a bargain deal on website for your business and it will end up costing you more on maintenance and updates.
Current locations: San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County ( Lake Forest, Laguna Hills, Irvine )
Dates: March 27- April 14, 2012
Cost of 1 day Workshop – $ 300. For two people,pay only $ 400
This is what I will teach you in a 1 or 2 day class:
1) Creating a domain ( your business address on the web ) and selecting a good hosting company with excellent customer service.
2) Uploading the right software for your website using C-Panel (Control Panel ) on your hosting plan.
3) Learn how to upload several domains or websites on the same hosting company for only $ 10 a year extra.
4) Learn the basics of WordPress ( creating post, pages, categories, widgets, plugins )
5) Master Drupal programming in 2 days. Drupal pages load fast & is on top of the SEO
6) Master Joomla in two days. Also a popular CMS Joomla is easier to learn than Drupal. Joomla has lots of community support & lots of free themes.
7) Understand & apply techniques of HTML & CSS to alter the look of your website.
8) Learn how to change fonts and colors of your texts on your webpage using the Editor
on your WordPress site. Make changes to CSS code and see the magic happen.
9) On this class, your will get to know the techniques of changing the look of WordPress templates.And mucho, mucho more info to learn.
To sign up for this class, please send me an email to: webdesigner2go@gmail.com
For more details on my Web Design Workshops visit my teaching site.
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Web Design Crash Course for Beginners
WORDPRESS , DRUPAL, JOOMLA WEB DESIGN WORKSHOP FOR BEGINNERS — One day crash course
1 Day Intensive Private Web Design Workshop
Dates & Locations : March 27-April 14 only, San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles County
All classes are by appointment only and require advance payment to confirm your spot.
Create a blog ? Make money by setting up an online e-commerce site. ? Attend
my 1 day WordPress web design workshop & learn the basics fast.
Build a wordpress blog in a day. WordPress is not just a popular blogging tool or CMS , but also a marketing tool.
As far as the recession is concern, we are not still out of the woods yet
And learning how to create a website that makes money is our way out for now .
Skills you will learn in the 1 day workshop :
1) Learn about the web and the fundamentals of creating a web
page using HTML and CSS ( Cascading style sheets )
2) Learn how to organize your content, photos,and graphics to
upload to your new WordPress website.
3) Learn how to download free or premium (paid ) WordPress templates
and modify the themes to fit your business theme. Every business has a different
theme ( color, design,structure,etc.)that suits it purpose.
4) Learn how to use Photoshop CS or elements to optimize images ( JPEG,GIF,PNG )
to create best balance between image quality and download speed.
5) Learn how to create pages,categories, and posts in WordPress
6) Learn how to upload new themes or templates to C panel or the control panel
7) Learn how to save your dynamic database. SAve your files in case of a system crash.
WORDPRESS
is a fun program to learn for building a nice,clean,& fast loading website.
After the web design workshop you will be able to maintain your website on your own.
Free follow up wordpress help by phone or email after the session.
DRUPAL & JOOMLA are great CMS tools if you want power & expandibility.
Joomla is easier to use but not as SEO friendly as DRUPAL. I will explain the differences
at the workshop.
Locations : I usually teach at a good Wifi Coffeeshop
I also go to my client’s office or home office. Just depends on my schedule.
Cost of the one day workshop – $ 275
Cost of the 2 day workshop – $ 550 ( $ 750 for 3 day workshop ).We accept Paypal or Cash.
Email us for more details.
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WordPress Bootcamp – Houston,Texas
Houston WordPress Bootcamp( 2-Day Workshop )
Dates available: April 11-18, 2012
Cost of the workshops : $ 550 per student ( includes a free online session follow-up)
One Day Private Workshops are available for $ 250 ( normally $ 300 )
Workshop structure: WP Part 1 can be taken weekdays or weekends
I can also structure an intro WordPress class if you are a complete beginner.
WordPress Bootcamp – Part 1 ( 8 hours ) Including Lunch break
1) Installing WordPress using C-Panel ( through your hosting account )
Creating sub-domains and subcategories using the Admin Panel
2) WordPress Navigation Basics – Creating Pages, Categories, & Posts
3) Using the menu system versus page system – Navigation tips & visual layout
4) The power of tags and why you need them
5) WordPress categories versus wordpress tags
6) The Power of Widgets – Modifying the look of your site using these amazing tools.
7) Selecting templates to create the feel and look for your website brand.
8) Installing images & graphics – Visual layout technique
9) WordPress Test – Create a blog from scratch in a hour. Use your favorite hobby as an
example.This test is for the newbie to WordPress. For the advance WP student, your
test will consist of creating a WP site from scratch
WordPress Bootcamp – Part 2 ( 8 hours ) Including Lunch break
1) WordPress Plugins – Make your site dynamic with the power of Plugins.
Plugins compatability with WP premium themes. Plugins compatability with latest WordPress software.
2) Using WordPress for Email campaigns .WP Campaign Monitor Plug-in
3) SEO Basics for WordPress – Using dates, slugs, and settings menu
4) HTML/CSS Basics – Manipulating the look of free & premium templates
with this powerful tool. Changing fonts, colors, logo sizes, widgets & sidebars sizes.
5) Do’s and don’ts of WordPress CMS. Updating plugins is a good example.
6) Dissecting a site with Firebug Tool. How to make yourself more productive with this Firefox add-on.
Fight the Hackers workshops
Cool Web Designs Fight the Hackers workshops
Web security workshop. Protect your website from hackers.This is an all day workshop to teach you how to use the C-Panel features to block out intruders. I will teach you tips on how to develop secure passwords ( up to 50 characters long ) to thwart out would be cyber hackers coming to your network.You will learn how to track down the IP addresses of these cyber terrorist and stop them from coming back again. You will learn how to operate C Panel features to secure all your websites in your server
Some common attacks on sites. A lot of hackers use SQL injections which is what happen to six of my websites which were hosted on I-page. It was a nasty attack and two months worth of web programming & design down the tube. Most dynamic websites uses PHP and MySQL. I will explain the pros and cons of security of different programs like WordPress,Drupal, Joomla, PHP forums, etc. Each has its own weakness and strengths. One important lesson you will learn is how to backup your database in case you get attacked.
The way hackers break in to your site is hacking the URL ( universal resource locator) query string and causing an error to be displayed. By breaking your website and causing errors, your once secret table names and column names of your database are exposed. With these valuable errors, a hacker can wreak havoc on your database and your website can be deface or worst planted with nasty viruses that can even spread to your laptops.
Another popular kind of hacking are call XSS ( cross-site scripting attacks ) which occurs when a web applications gather malicious data from a user. The data us usually gathered in the form of a hyperlink which contains malicious code. You as a web surfer can just innocently click on this link from another website, an instant
message or reading your own email. This happens in many popular guest books and forums.
Check this XSS article
A popular PHP program like PHPnuke has this ” XSS holes ” that are vulnerable to attacks. I know all these kind of web terminology sounds greek to you and also scary. So watch out for questionable Javacript, ActiveX, HTML, or flash links. I will try to explain in layman’s term how you can minimize this kind of attacks to your website which you spend a lot of time and money. I will show you how to hide website errors by setting up custom error pages.
You save this html page as error404.htm and upload to the server and this will stop many hackers right in their tracks.
And finally, you will learn how to prevent hackers from manipulating the URL query string and executing scripts ( will explain what this means ) and deleting your tables. I will show you how to block input containing malicious code. Of course, you also want to bring in good input from your users who want to log comments into your blog. A common saying in the programming world is ” ALL INPUT IS EVIL.” So everything must be treated with caution.
I hope this article is not too way over your head as a beginner to trying to understand internet security. But it comes real handy to protecting your valuable investment of time and money on your business website or blog
or any site that makes money for you. Email me if you have any more questions.
We design websites with your target audience in mind and ensure that your business objectives are translated
into a successful web solution. We offer content management systems which allows you to manage your website yourself.
We use Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla for CMS solutions.