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Beginner Wordpress Website Design and Wordpress Development (Udemy.com)

Easy Wordpress website design/Wordpress development for beginners: Writer, writing, write, self-publish, self-publishing

Created by: Brian Jackson

Last updated May 2021

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What you will learn

  • Install and maintain their own Wordpress based website
  • Save money by installing and maintaining your own website

How it compares

Against the other 102 rated Udemy courses in WordPress on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.1 out of 5higher than 6% of them
  • Reviews160#86 of 103 by number of reviews
  • Length4.1 hoursshorter than 52% of them
  • Last updatedMay 2021earlier than 59% of them

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Course Description

Note: This course is out of date.  It is retained for historical purposes and made available for completists only.

Hello and welcome to the course,

This is a beginner course on creating Wordpress websites.

Authors, artists and entrepreneurs all need websites. How about you?

This course explains how to design and develop a Wordpress website from scratch.

Wordpress is free, it's easy and it’s fun. You don’t want to miss out on this once in a lifetime opportunity to create your own Wordpress website. Easy to install, easy to configure, easy to maintain.

There's no need to fear, this course will take you step-by-step through everything you need to know to implement and maintain your own Wordpress based website. In this course, you'll learn about:

  • Domain name and website hosting

  • Wordpress installation and configuration

  • Installation of plugins and themes

  • Adding pages and blog posts to your site

  • Adding Facebook like and email signup forms

Using Wordpress to implement your own website provides many advantages:

  • Save money by doing it yourself

  • Maintain creative control of the end product

  • Update your own web page, when you want and how you want

  • But most of all, have fun!

So, come join me on this journey. Follow the step-by-step instructions and end the course with a new website. We'll do it together the easy way using Wordpress.

Good luck and happy Udemy'ing.

---Brian

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Instructor Details

Brian Jackson

Hello,

My name is Brian Jackson. I'm the author of about a dozen books, the publisher of well over 100 books, and a Udemy instructor with over 40 courses.

This is my story...

1 Origins

I was born in the middle of the last century in Los Angeles, California. I graduated from Humboldt State University, surrounded by the redwoods of Northern California. After 14 years at Lockheed Missiles and Space as an IBM system programmer and 12 years at Cisco Systems as a test engineer, I retired at 48.

I instantly became bored.

2 Community College

To break the boredom, I enrolled at Columbia Community College to take writing, art, acting and statistics classes. I took 24 units over one year and received straight “A”s.

I was still bored.

3 Writing and Self-publishing

I began writing fiction and nonfiction books and self-publishing them on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords in July 2011. Though I wrote and published several books, my self-publishing business didn’t take off until my wife joined me.

4 My Wife and Author, Melanie Jackson

Melanie Jackson, my wife, was an author publishing over two romance novels per year through her New York publisher, Dorchester Press. After publishing 24 novels with Dorchester, the company folded, and Melanie was without a publisher (she wanted to write cozy mysteries anyway).

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Reviews

4.1

160 ratings on Udemy

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By Alysa Makahanaloa on 8/2/2020

This course is great for anyone who has ZERO experience building a website! I didn't want to pay some company $1000 to build my website and was nervous about building it myself. After taking this course, I am no longer nervous! I can't wait to get started!

By Rex Baker on 6/24/2019

Yes, so far I have found this course very useful. As a newbie to the world of Wordpress blogging, this is a wonderful resource because it explains key concepts clearly rather than bombarding me with information that goes over my head from the very beginning.

By Irma on 2/6/2019

So far no good, the information is not worth the price. Got the exact same information and with better presentation on Youtube.

By John Diehl on 4/16/2018

outstanding, I am quite sure that I will end up with a better site using less effort. Of course it is WordPress making this possible but Brian's guidance is invaluable in understanding and getting the most out of WordPress. If I am able to achieve any success in my publishing endeavor Brian. If not it will be of no fault from him, and I will have several new skills to thank him for. and 4-5 of his courses will be largely responsible)

By Mary Krigbaum on 6/27/2017

Brian is such a Great teacher. He takes everything slow and repeats things so you understand what he is saying. Thanks Brian! Can't wait to start my website! Thanks for the extra effort! I am sure this will help others who take your course. Thanks again, you really come through for your students!

By Sue Ellis on 2/3/2017

Concise, good instruction, simple for a beginner to understand, clear images, good educational narration with good voice inflection. He breaks it down to the lowest common denominator assuming no prior knowledge. Great course so far. S. Ellis

By Saralee Etter on 4/17/2016

I always feel like I don't understand the underpinnings of the technology that I use -- including Wordpress -- so while this is very basic, this course really helps me to understand what's going on behind the scenes.

By GORDANA GAVRILOVIC-ARCURI on 4/16/2016

The course was good, but it only showed how to get WordPress if you went through the particular web host that you use and I already have a domain and host set up. I don't want to go through my host either. I would like to go through the steps manually and can't find any info on doing it that way. I was told that it is better to do it that way but everyone wants to take the easy way. Also, I hope what I did learn applies to other themes because I don't think that theme is what I'm looking for and too much on coding. Some of us don't want to code. I thought cool at first, I'll learn something new, but got bored and lost interest, focus and understanding by the second or 3rd module about it. Didn't really relate to setting up the website when they say you can do it without knowing anything about coding. I think that time could have been used for something more relevant that would have helped in the long run regarding starting on WordPress. Started out great, but then you kinda lost me, sorry because your probably my favorite instructor on here. Keep up the good work. You were still better than any others that I've seen o the subject though...lol.

By Anonymized User on 1/18/2016

This course certainly deserve appreciation. Easy to understand and complete with perfection, which lead me to understand this course within a short period of time. I thanks for such an amazing course and I enjoyed my learning experience.

By Kathleen "Kat" Mierswa on 8/2/2015

he gives you a clear way to set up word press website....even when there is a lot to do...but i liked it, thanks and he shows you the how to's....he is interesting and met the expectations I had about the course... definitely recommend his courses ...I have several of them

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