The document is a step-by-step guide for building a portfolio website using WordPress, beginning with account setup and progressing through blog creation, post editing, and media integration. It includes tips on categorizing content, customizing site appearance, and connecting with social media. The guide also outlines important settings and further resources for additional support.

1. Build Your Own Portfolio Website Inner Ear’s Step-by-step Guide to Building a Website in Wordpress

2. Introduction Who are we? Have you heard of Wordpress? Who’s got a blog? Who’s on Facebook? Who’s on Twitter? Who’s on MySpace? Who’s heard of Audioboo? SoundCloud? Mixcloud? Tunited? BandCamp?

3. Blogging What is blogging? Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Dictionary.com definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blog Blog: Stand alone website Section of a website Place to host multimedia files

4. Setting Up Your Own Portfolio Website Using Worpress.com Some 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 carefully Step 2 : Go to the Dashboard of your new blog Step 3: Open the blog in a new tab to see what it looks like, note the example post and comment Step 4: Go back to the Dashboard

5. Introduction to Posts Step 5: Edit the "Hello World" post Step 6: Now to write your first blog post Tip: Keep your blog post title under 10 words. Step 7: Edit the URL Step 8: Change the blog post content Tip: Use a plain text editor

6. Categories and Tags Tags: non-hierarchical, user-defined, open Example of tag use on www.radiomagnetic.com Categories: hiercharchical, pre-defined, closed Step 9: Create Categories The categories we are going to add are: News, Gigs, Music, Video, Press, Photos and Reviews Tip: use descriptions, or alternative text (good for SEO)

7. Pages and Posts Pages: static, permanant content Posts: dynamic, ephemeral content Create pages: About and Contact Step 10: Scroll to the Pages section of the Dashboard and click ‘Add New’

8. Menus Menu is the naviagation bar along the top of the website Build menu using pages, categories and links Step 11: Create your menu Use the menu builder Add pages and categories Step 12: Create a link to your Home Page within the Menu

9. Adding Media to Posts

10. Adding Media to Posts Step 13: Start by adding a new post, entering a title and some content Step 14: Add an image Use upload/insert button Tip: Use Alternate Text Step 15: Embed a SoundCloud player Step 16: Add an Audioboo player Step 17: Integrate video

11. Schedule Publication In Wordpress (and many blogging platforms) you can post-date content so that it is published at a specified time in the future Time saving, efficient way of adding content Step 18: schedule a post for future publication

12. Appearance Step 19: Customise the Header in the default theme Tip: choose your own image, or one of the default images Crop the image if you want to Step 20: Edit the theme Step 21: Add a text widget to the sidebar

13. Links Step 22: Edit and Define Link Categories Links to external sites The "blogroll" Tip: link are good for SEO Step 23: Add some links. Step 24: Add a links widget to the sidebar.

14. 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.

15. Settings Step 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.

16. Further Reference Online help support for Wordpress.com: http://en.support.wordpress.com Inner 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_address] [email_address]