What you'll learn
Build your own beautiful website using WordPress.
Design your WordPress website the way you imagine.
Host and publish your website in an inexpensive and secure way.
Customize your WordPress website for any purpose of yours - whether it's a blog, a portfolio to show off your work, or an e-commerce site to sell your products or services.
You will know how to design pages, menus, sidebars, footers, and create a professional and modern website.
You will know how to find and install themes.
You will know how to find and install plugins.
You will know how to back up your WordPress website in case of emergency.
You will know how to get your website found by search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
You will know how to set up email opt-in forms throughout your website.
You will know how to increase social sharing of your posts and pages with free plugins.
You will know how to set up comments and contact pages, while blocking spam.
You will know how to speed up your website with caching plugins.
You will know how to make your website secure and protected from hackers.
You will know how to set up a membership and / or e-commerce site.
And if there is anything you don't learn from the course and want to learn, you can always ask the instructor Phil for help!
Requirements
You don't need any experience with Wordpress or with building a website.
You will need a working computer and a modern browser like Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.
You will need internet access to watch the lessons online, or can download them on your computer for playback.
You don't need any experience with programming languages like HTML or CSS.
You don't need to purchase hosting or pay for anything to follow along and practice building a website yourself. I'll show you in the course how to practice building a WordPress website for free.