1. USING WORDPRESS TO BUILD CORPORATE WEBSITES DEC 11, 2010 AL DAVIS aldavis.org

2. What are we going to cover today? Why WordPress? Who is using WordPress for corporate sites? Beyond the blog- taking WordPress to the next level How to create a static home page Questions

3. So the question is…….. As a Web Designer, why should I start using WordPress for my sites?

5. Ok, so lots of people use WordPress……why else should I use it? Easy to install ( the famous 5 minute install) SEO Friendly LOTS of plugins to make development easier Minimal learning curve And…. It’s Free

6. So who is using WordPress as something other than a blog site?

7. Network Solutions

8. Andyroddick.com

9. University of Virginia

10. Spotify.com

11. Timberline.com

12. Vancouverconventioncentre.com

13. When most people think about WordPress and a blog this is what they envision

15. So how do you go from…..?

16. Typical WordPress page hierarchy Home page of Aggregated posts /About /post 1 /contact /post 2 /People /post 3

17. “New” WordPress page hierarchy Home page /About /contact /Blog /People /blog/post 1 /blog/post2 /blog/post 3

18. Setting a static home page in WordPress

19. How to create a page in WordPress Make sure this is unchecked

20. Step 1. – Set home page to be a static page Make sure you have these pages created prior to trying to set this up

21. Step 2. Add code to home page Grabs header.php Makes your home page a re-usable template Good old HTML/CSS Code Grabs footer.php

22. Step 3. Add your CSS to the style.css file (or whatever the file is named)

23. And Voila! You have a non blog looking home page on WordPress!

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