1. HOW TO MAKE A WEBSITE WITH
LITTLE OR NO EXPERIENCE
Part 2
By Yusuf Chowdhury
7/24/2012

2. Your First Setting
•Log into your WordPress site
http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin
•On the left dashboard menu, look for settings
•Under general tab in settings, click edit
o In this tab you can edit information such as the
title site that shows up in the homepage
•Click save so changes can take place!

3. Edit your Home Page
1 - Dashboard
2 – Settings
3 – Reading
4 - Blog as Home Page
Static Page

4. Install Theme
To install your theme…
Dashboard Menu > Appearance > Themes > activate
Refresh the site to see your brand new theme in action!
Changing your Theme
Dashboard > Menu > Appearance > Themes > Install
Theme > Activate
You can browse or upload a theme you downloaded .
To preview your themes…
Dashboard > Appearance > Themes > and click
Preview under the theme

5. Elements of a Theme
Header
Logo
Footer
Content
Sidebar
Widget
Typography
Image Slider
Footer
Portfolios
Favicons

6. •Click “Appearance” under dashboard menu
•Click “Themes”
•On the next screen click “Install Themes”
•Click “Search” or “Featured”
•Here you can search keywords or even
browse free themes that are provided by
WordPress
Free Themes

7. Create Pages
Dashboard Menu Pages > Add new
Delete a page
Delete a page by clicking “move to trash” under
“publish” in the pages screen. If you accidentally
delete a page, you can restore it by immediately
clicking “undo” on the confirmation screen.
Give page a Name - add text to box under “Edit Page”
Publish page - click Publish when your content is ready
Update page - click Update
Add text - Add content and hit update to save and
implement the changes!

8. Changing the Permalink
Dashboard
Menu > Settings > Permalinks
Click ‘Custom Structure’
Enter /%postname%/

9. Add A Header Image
To Add Image
Go to Appearance > Header > Upload Image >
Save Changes
To Remove Image
Appearance > Header > Remove Header
Image > Save Changes

10. Add Essential Plugins
• Google Analytics for
WordPress
• Shareaholic | email,
bookmark, share
buttons
• WordPress SEO
• CommentLuv
• Online Backup for WP
• W3 Total Cache
• Yet Another Related
Posts Plugin
• WP Touch
• Social Metrics
• WP optimizer
• Sucuri SiteCheck
Malware Scanne
• CKeditor

11. Plugins
Plugin:
A piece of code that gives you certain
functionality that your site did not have
before it was installed.

12. Install Plugins
Search a Plugin: Dashboard > Plugins> Add> New Search> Type in
keywords and browse
Install the Plugin: Click on “Install” and it will be imported to your
Plugin folder in your WordPress Dashboard
Activate the Plugin: Click “Activate” to activate the Plugins
Configure the Plugin: Plugin setup and configuration settings may
vary and it can be found on the Plugin's site
Use the Plugin
Update the Plugin
Deactivate the Plugin: Go to Plugins finding the desired Plugin, and
clicking “Deactivate”

13. Install Plugins
Uploading a Plugin
►Dashboard > Plugins > Add New
►Browse for the Plugin on your Computer
►Click “Upload” and then
►Activate

14. Embed YouTube Videos
►Find YouTube Video
►Click the “share” button right below the video
►Click on Embed
►Choose the size right below
►Now, copy the text that shows up below
►Paste it to your page in your WordPress Dashboard
►Save

15. Create Menus
Dashboard >
Appearance >
Menus >
Add Pages, move Pages &
create Sub Pages

16. Sidebars and Widgets
To add widgets, go to Appearance > Widgets

17. What is Gravatar?
Gravatar = Globally recognized Avatar (graphical
representation of the user or user’s ‘alter ego’)
Go to http://Gravatar.com
Dashboard > Settings> Discussion
Scroll to the bottom and edit the settings for
your avatar!

18. SEO Check list for new sites by
SEOmoz
• Accessibility
• Keyword research
• Quality Content
• Design quality (http://fivesecondtest.com )
• Social Media platform (Linkedin, Facebook,
Twitter, Youtube, Google +...)
• Link building

19. Keyword Research
Relevant and Niche based
Low Competition
General vs. Long tail keywords
Local Search vs. Global
1,000 to 10,000
Export your Keywords list

20. Optimize your website for
On-Site SEO?
Content on Pages and Posts
Title tags (60-70)
Meta Description tags(140-140):
Anchor text
Dashboard> Pages > Edit> SEO plugin
Dashboard> Posts > Edit > SEO plugin

21. Optimize your website for
Offsite-SEO?
• Submit your website to Search Engines and Web
Directories
• (Yahoo directory, DMOZ...) -
http://www.webseoanalytics.com
• Google Webmaster Tools
• High quality Resource lists
• News sites (Press Releases)
• Social Networking Sites
• Guest blogging
• Contents

22. Optimize your website for
Offsite-SEO?
Searching for guest bloggers
Go to Google and search (Replace the word keyword with
your niche)
http://www.buzzblogger.com/500-places-to-syndicate-your-
content/
http://www.briankeithmay.com/100-sites-to-submit-guest-posts/
http://myblogguest.com
keyword “submit a guest post”
keyword “guest post”
keyword “guest post by”
keyword “accepting guest posts”
keyword “guest post guidelines”

23. Optimize Your Blog Posts
Title Tag - Page/post title as it shows up in the top of your browser
in the search engine
Meta Description Tag - Paragraph below the title - used to
draw readers in
Keyword meta tags – Words or search terms you want
your information to show up for
Permalink – Everything after the domain name that
references the post or page
Headings – Words used in the headings of your content
Paragraphs – How often your keyword is used throughout
the paragraph in your post
Formatting – Emphasize your keywords: bold, italicize,
underline
Links – Quality of sites linking to and from your site

24. Resources
http://wordpress.tv/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
http://www.wpbeginner.com/

25. End of Part Two
HOW TO MAKE A WEBSITE WITH
LITTLE OR NO EXPERIENCE

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