on-demand course

Building Websites With WordPress

with Geoff Blake

January 2012

Beginner to intermediate

8h 53m

English

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Course outline

What You Will Learn
3m 45s
The Workflow Process
3m 2s
Setting Up Illustrator For Web Layout
4m 36s
Getting Started With Wire Framing
6m 48s
Making The Layout Precise With Transform And Align
7m 35s
Setting Up Layout Guides
5m 32s
Wireframing Additional Layout Objects
5m 44s
Finishing Up The Wireframe - Part 1
7m 33s
Finishing Up The Wireframe - Part 2
3m 17s
Choosing Fonts
4m 56s
Choosing Colors
7m 45s
Creating The Site Logo
7m 5s
Scaling And Positioning The Logo
3m 33s
Creating A Brush Effect
7m 8s
Building Out The Design Further
6m 2s
Pushing The Design Further
4m 51s
Using Yahoo! Design Elements
5m 41s
Getting The Design Into Photoshop
6m 55s
Adjusting The Canvas Size
3m 50s
Introducing Smart Objects
5m 44s
Breaking Apart The Layout - Part 1
6m 19s
Breaking Apart The Layout - Part 2
5m 58s
Breaking Apart The Rest Of The Layout
4m 35s
Organizing The Layers Panel
5m 31s
Building Out The Header
4m 15s
Inserting The Header Texture And A Clipping Group
7m 25s
Inserting Photographs - Part 1
5m 5s
Inserting Photographs - Part 2
6m 13s
Building The Center Section
8m 20s
Finalizing The Layout
5m 0s
Downloading WordPress
2m 50s
Downloading XAMPP For PC
2m 52s
Starting Up XAMPP And Creating The MySQL Database
4m 53s
Installing WordPress On The PC
6m 18s
Downloading MAMP For Mac
2m 13s
Pointing MAMP To WordPress
3m 46s
Creating The Database And Installing WordPress On The Mac
7m 21s
Viewing And Touring The Admin Console
4m 1s
Viewing The WordPress Front And Backend
3m 17s
WordPress Main Areas
5m 0s
Permalink Option Settings
4m 0s
Changing The Sites Theme
4m 23s
Viewing The Template Files And A Note About Text Editors
5m 31s
Defining The Main Layout Components - Part 1
6m 26s
Defining The Main Layout Components - Part 2
5m 1s
Adjusting The Layout Width
4m 52s
Starting The Sites Header
6m 1s
Slicing The Layout's Header Graphic
7m 7s
Saving The Header Background
5m 16s
Correcting The File Structure
2m 49s
Inserting The Header Graphic Into The CSS
5m 4s
Extracting The Logo From The Photoshop Layout
5m 21s
Inserting The Logo And Making Code Adjustments
7m 58s
Resizing The Logo
3m 12s
Roughing In The Slidshow - Part 1
6m 33s
Roughing In The Slidshow - Part 2
5m 45s
Understanding How Posts And The Loop Works
6m 21s
Writing And Publishing Posts
5m 4s
Setting A Featured Image Post Thumbnail - Part 1
5m 27s
Setting A Featured Image Post Thumbnail - Part 2
6m 52s
Inserting The More Tag
2m 48s
Creating Additional Test Posts
2m 55s
Setting The Blog Loop Background Graphic
7m 30s
Controlling Background Tiling
4m 13s
Adding The Blog Loop Title
3m 27s
Customizing How Posts Display - Part 1
2m 41s
Customizing How Posts Display - Part 2
3m 50s
Finalizing The Blog Loop
2m 33s
Understanding Pages Versus Posts
3m 13s
Publishing Pages And Updating The Menu
4m 12s
Creating Additional Test Pages
3m 21s
Controlling The Order Of Menu Items
5m 2s
Finishing Up The Menu
2m 5s
Saving The Graphic For The Center Section
5m 25s
Coding The Center Section
6m 7s
Applying The Background Texture
4m 48s
Extracting The Center Section Graphics
5m 4s
Coding The Center Graphics
3m 52s
Final Center Box Adjustments
5m 52s
Setting Center Box Hyperlinks
3m 3s
Downloading And Installing The Gallery Plugin
4m 1s
Inserting The Gallery Code
2m 32s
Creating The Slideshow Graphics
5m 22s
Building The Slide Posts
6m 4s
Configuring The Slideshow
4m 49s
Removing The Gallery Posts From The Loop
4m 7s

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Building The Layout's Center Section

Building An Automated Slideshow

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Uploading To A Live Web Server

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