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Date : 16 Sept 2014

Digital Publishing Tools:WordPress

This afternoon

Quick: design concepts

WordPress overview

Lab

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Grids / Typeface /Visuals & Text

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Grids / Typeface /Visuals & Text

SanSerif v Serif

Points v Pixels

Best practices

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Grids / Typeface /Visuals & Text

Images should convey info (not just be pretty)

Writing style for screens:ChunkBulletsActive tenseShort graphsOptimal text for

hyperlinks (no “click here”)

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What Is A Blog?

A blog is a website with certain characteristics (n);To blog is a verb

It is characterized by a reverse chronological ordering of entries, which we call posts. We do not call them blogs!

Posts are grouped into categories for ease of finding like posts

Posts may also have tags. Think of categories like nouns and tags like adjectives. (Blue socks)

Posts are linked to RSS, a form of subscription/alerts.

You can also create pages (about-me is standard) which are stand-alone and do not show up on the blog home page

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What Is WordPress?

WordPress is a content management system

WordPress is a blogging platform

WordPress is an identity system

WordPress flavors .com .org

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Lab

Setting up a WordPress blog Creating an account Your first post Using categories Managing your user profile

+1a. Set up account

Go to WordPress.com

Type your firstNamelastName in the box

Prepare to use an email address you can access from your lab computer

+1b. Set up account It may be a

challenge to pick a unique username

You want the FREE version (scroll)

+1c. Set up account Pick a name

+1d. Set up theme Use Twenty Thirteen – you can change it later

+1e. Set up theme Skip – you can customize it later

+1f. Set up sharing Skip – you can figure out sharing later

+1g. Confirm

+1h. Confirm

+1i. Confirm

+2a. Your first post & categories Title: Hello,

world!

Body: something about the lab

New category: Class posts

Publish

+2b. Your first post & categories

+2c. Your first post & categories

+3a. Manage personal profile

+3b. Manage personal profileGravatar.com

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Resources

10 resources for beginning WordPress bloggers

Blogging glossary

Creating links (hypertext) in WordPress (YouTube)

Creating links (hypertext) in WordPress editor

Other WordPress and blogging resources

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Kathy E Gill

kegill at uw dot edu or gmail or @kegill (fastest!)

http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill

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