build your own portfolio website
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Build Your Own Portfolio Website
Inner Ear’s Step-by-step Guide to Building a Website in Wordpress
Introduction
1. Who are we?1.
1. Have you heard of Wordpress?2. Who’s got a blog?3. Who’s on Facebook?4. Who’s on Twitter?5. Who’s on MySpace?6. Who’s heard of Audioboo? SoundCloud? Mixcloud?
Tunited? BandCamp?
Blogging
What is blogging?
Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlogDictionary.com definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blog
Blog:
Stand alone websiteSection of a websitePlace to host multimedia files
Setting Up Your Own Portfolio Website
Using Worpress.comSome examples...Recommended reading "why a website is like a restaurant"
http://innerear.posterous.com/why-a-website-is-like-a-restaurant
Step 1: Sign up at www.wordpress.com
Tip: Consider the name you choose carefullyStep 2: Go to the Dashboard of your new blogStep 3: Open the blog in a new tab to see what it looks like, note the example post and commentStep 4: Go back to the Dashboard
Introduction to Posts
Step 5: Edit the "Hello World" postStep 6: Now to write your first blog postTip: Keep your blog post title under 10 words. Step 7: Edit the URL
Step 8: Change the blog post contentTip: Use a plain text editor
Categories and Tags
Tags: non-hierarchical, user-defined, openExample of tag use on www.radiomagnetic.com Categories: hiercharchical, pre-defined, closed
Step 9: Create CategoriesThe categories we are going to add are: News, Gigs, Music, Video, Press, Photos and ReviewsTip: use descriptions, or alternative text (good for SEO)
Pages and Posts
Pages: static, permanant contentPosts: dynamic, ephemeral contentCreate pages: About and Contact
Step 10: Scroll to the Pages section of the Dashboard and click ‘Add New’
Menus
Menu is the naviagation bar along the top of the websiteBuild menu using pages, categories and links
Step 11: Create your menuUse the menu builderAdd pages and categoriesStep 12: Create a link to your Home Page within the Menu
Adding Media to Posts
Adding Media to Posts
Step 13: Start by adding a new post, entering a title and some contentStep 14: Add an imageUse upload/insert buttonTip: Use Alternate TextStep 15: Embed a SoundCloud playerStep 16: Add an Audioboo playerStep 17: Integrate video
Schedule Publication
In Wordpress (and many blogging platforms) you can post-date content so that it is published at a specified time in the futureTime saving, efficient way of adding content
Step 18: schedule a post for future publication
Appearance
Step 19: Customise the Header in the default themeTip: choose your own image, or one of the default imagesCrop the image if you want toStep 20: Edit the themeStep 21: Add a text widget to the sidebar
Links
Step 22: Edit and Define Link Categories Links to external sitesThe "blogroll"Tip: link are good for SEOStep 23: Add some links.Step 24: Add a links widget to the sidebar.
Social Media Sharing
Step 23: Allow visitors to your website to share your content.Step 24: Automate posting to your Facebook and Twitter.Step 25: Add a Twitter Feed.Make use of RSS feeds.Add an RSS widget to your sidebar.
SettingsStep 26: Explore your website’s settings.General settings.
Date, time, title, tagline, etc.Writing settings.
How posts are controlled.Reading settings.
How posts are displayed.Media settings.
Images, audio and video.Domain settings.
If you buy your own domain, point it to your blog here.Privacy settings.
Make your blog private.Discussion settings.
Control comments.
Further Reference
Online help support for Wordpress.com:http://en.support.wordpress.comInner Ear’s Delicious Bookmarks:http://www.delicious.com/innerear (see ie-digital-media-workshop tag)Inner Ear’s Website:http://www.innerear.co.uk
Contact us for more info and to find out how Inner Ear can deliver workshops, training, content creation and communications for you.Email addresses:[email protected]@innerear.co.uk