Adding a Page to your WordPress website

You may or may not have heard the acronym WISYWYG before.  WISYWYG is for What You See Is What You Get and is used for creating html content for websites, emails, and much more. Within WordPress the WYSIWYG tool is used quite a bit as it is the Visual Editor for adding content for pages and posts.  Although creating pages and posts with the WYSIWYG tools can be a bit tricky it is much easier than learning html coding. You have access to add text, images, video and audio files.  The following video will go through how to add a page with a single image and some text.  

How to put your page in the WordPress menu system

One of the most significant advances with WordPress 3.0 when it was released last year was the menu system.  Before menus adding pages and content to your site needed to be very well planned out and making changes to a large site was cumbersome. As an example before the menu function if you added a page or post to your site it would automatically be added to your site.  You will notice in the video that with the menu system the page doesn't display on the site until you want it to. Now with a couple clicks and drag and drop you are able to add and edit the layout of your site in a matter of minutes.  As was brought up on the previous post about themes, making sure that the theme you choose has WordPress menus available is important.  This video will show you how to add a menu and then add a page to that menu using a commercial (paid) theme from WooThemes.

 

Adding a Page to your WordPress website

You may or may not have heard the acronym WISYWYG before.  WISYWYG is for What You See Is What You Get and is used for creating html content for websites, emails, and much more. Within WordPress the WYSIWYG tool is used quite a bit as it is the Visual Editor for adding content for pages and posts.  Although creating pages and posts with the WYSIWYG tools can be a bit tricky it is much easier than learning html coding. You have access to add text, images, video and audio files.  The following video will go through how to add a page with a single image and some text.  

How to put your page in the WordPress menu system

One of the most significant advances with WordPress 3.0 when it was released last year was the menu system.  Before menus adding pages and content to your site needed to be very well planned out and making changes to a large site was cumbersome. As an example before the menu function if you added a page or post to your site it would automatically be added to your site.  You will notice in the video that with the menu system the page doesn't display on the site until you want it to. Now with a couple clicks and drag and drop you are able to add and edit the layout of your site in a matter of minutes.  As was brought up on the previous post about themes, making sure that the theme you choose has WordPress menus available is important.  This video will show you how to add a menu and then add a page to that menu using a commercial (paid) theme from WooThemes.

Managing, Editing and Adding Themes to your site

If you are anything like me you will want to get right into changing how your WordPress website looks. Browsing through available free themes and commercial themes is like being a kid in the candy store.
It doesn't matter if you know what look and functionality you want on your site at this point  If you do have an idea you of course can zero in you search.  On the other hand if your not sure what you want browsing through all of the possibilities will help give you some ideas too.

WordPress Twenty Ten Theme

Since WordPress comes out of the box with the Twenty Ten theme the following video will cover how to change the header and background so you can start right away.

Commercial & Free Themes

WordPress has over a thousand free themes available for download into your website.  In the video I will cover how to search for free themes as well as how to activate them.  Just a side note: I refer to "commercial" themes as "premium" themes in the video.  WordPress has been making an effort eliminate the use of "premium" as it relates to paid theme and now call them "commercial". This is something that you will want to be aware of as you search for themes.

Managing, Editing and Adding Themes to your site

If you are anything like me you will want to get right into changing how your WordPress website looks. Browsing through available free themes and commercial themes is like being a kid in the candy store.
It doesn't matter if you know what look and functionality you want on your site at this point  If you do have an idea you of course can zero in you search.  On the other hand if your not sure what you want browsing through all of the possibilities will help give you some ideas too.

WordPress Twenty Ten Theme

Since WordPress comes out of the box with the Twenty Ten theme the following video will cover how to change the header and background so you can start right away.

Commercial & Free Themes

WordPress has over a thousand free themes available for download into your website.  In the video I will cover how to search for free themes as well as how to activate them.  Just a side note: I refer to "commercial" themes as "premium" themes in the video.  WordPress has been making an effort eliminate the use of "premium" as it relates to paid theme and now call them "commercial". This is something that you will want to be aware of as you search for themes.

WordPress Dashboard Overview

The dashboard of WordPress is where the magic happens.  You will see in future videos how you can change the look of your site, add and edit posts and pages, and much more.  For this video  though I will give you a basic tour of all of the elements available and what you can expect to see on your new WordPress website.  Learn where everything is and how to adjust the layout with drag and drop to fit your needs.

WordPress Dashboard Overview

The dashboard of WordPress is where the magic happens.  You will see in future videos how you can change the look of your site, add and edit posts and pages, and much more.  For this video  though I will give you a basic tour of all of the elements available and what you can expect to see on your new WordPress website.  Learn where everything is and how to adjust the layout with drag and drop to fit your needs.

One click WordPress installation on Godaddy

So now that you have a hosting account set up the next step in adding a WordPress site is the installation.  Don't worry you just need to click a button and you are off and running.

By the way this type of one click WordPress installation is common on most of the shared hosting platforms out there.  So even though I have used Godaddy you can use just about anything you would like.

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One click WordPress installation on Godaddy

So now that you have a hosting account set up the next step in adding a WordPress site is the installation.  Don't worry you just need to click a button and you are off and running.

By the way this type of one click WordPress installation is common on most of the shared hosting platforms out there.  So even though I have used Godaddy you can use just about anything you would like.

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What exactly is WordPress
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Godaddy WordPress hosting in 10 minutes or less 

My last post was about  WordPress and gave a little information about what it is and what it can do. If you are like most people, just hearing how cool something is isn't enough.  You need to see it in action and use it for yourself. For that reason I am going to continue to post more on how you can set up your own WordPress site and customize it to your needs.  First you will need to set up a hosting account.

There are several hosting solutions available on the Internet to create a WordPress site on. In the next couple of posts/videos I am going to show you how to set up a site using Godaddy.  In less than about 20 minutes of actual work you will have a website up and running. 10 minutes to set up hosting and another 10 minutes to set up WordPress.

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Godaddy WordPress hosting in 10 minutes or less 

My last post was about  WordPress and gave a little information about what it is and what it can do. If you are like most people, just hearing how cool something is isn't enough.  You need to see it in action and use it for yourself. For that reason I am going to continue to post more on how you can set up your own WordPress site and customize it to your needs.  First you will need to set up a hosting account.

There are several hosting solutions available on the Internet to create a WordPress site on. In the next couple of posts/videos I am going to show you how to set up a site using Godaddy.  In less than about 20 minutes of actual work you will have a website up and running. 10 minutes to set up hosting and another 10 minutes to set up WordPress.

Set up hosting for your WordPress site

Here is the nuts and bolts how to video on setting up Godaddy hosting.

Related Post: What Exactly is WordPress