2. Step One
• Go to WordPress.com
• Press the Sign up / Get Started button
• Use a Name that you are comfortable with for
your professional address of your Web-
• Portfolio
• Choose a username and password
• Press Sign-up
6. Step Three - The Theme
Choose the Appearance tab
in the search box type
Ocean Mist
Choose this theme
7.
8. Step Four – Import
File found at http://www.laboban.com/opb/search.htm
9. Step Five
• Go To --- your PAGES Tab
• When you mouse over the individual page
listed the edit option appears……choose it
• Rename the page (About) to (Blog)
• Go BACK TO ( VIEW ALL PAGES) mouse over
the page to select quick edit…
• Put the pages order you want them save and
refresh the page
10. Choose - Pages
For Web Portrait For Online Classes
ABOUT ME ABOUT ME
CLASSROOM CLASSROOM
PORTFOLIO CLASS MATERIAL
BLOG CALENDAR
BLOG
11. Settings
• To set your web page settings
• Go to Settings select settings tab
• General Settings
• This will be the header of your web
page………
• Set your Site Title to your Full Name
13. Settings
• Set your tagline as your Title (example Phd)
• Then go to the bottom of the page and click …Save….
• NEXT go to..
• READING option
• For the static page option
• Choose….. About Me…..
• For post page select Blog……Go to bottom of page
click …..Save…….
15. Profile
• Next GO TO “USERS tab”
• You are going to upload your web portrait photo
by means of the gravatar here.
• Choose My Profile
• Upload your photo to be used in your web
portrait here (using a white, grey or blue
background in your photo looks really
professional I just used a digital I took)
NOTE: You will not see photo till you activate it in
step seven (Widgets)
17. Step Six
• Go to Media……..click library
• Here you can view, edit, upload
and download files for your webpage.
• TO UPLOAD-------- -----Choose Add New tab
• Upload your CV, Classroom Presentation, and
Portfolio Highlight file.
19. Library
• DOWNLOAD:
• TO DOWNLOAD (This step optional at this time)
• 1. FIRST Choose …VIEW …. ON…. THE IMAGE
• 2. THEN… RIGHT CLICK ….ON THE…. IMAGE
• 3. AND CHOOSE SAVE IMAGE AS Download the
image to your computer
• TO USE Business Card Template. You can use any
graphic program to fill in your information
20. Step Seven
• To make your header…………
• CLICK ON …HEADER OPTION….. UNDER
APPEARANCE
• First choose….. Remove Header ………THEN……
• BROWSE…… And SELECT THE HEADER Image FILE
YOU DOWNLOADED with the template file
• Choose UPLOAD………… then go to bottom of
page and…….. save changes
Header image can be downloaded here
• http://www.laboban.com/opb/search.htm
22. Step Eight
• GO TO The……..APPEARANCE tab,
• CHOOSE WIDGETS ….
• You will see a section of available widgets and a
section called sidebar
• You drag the widget to the sidebar
• YOU HAVE TO MOUSE OVER CATEGORY..until
you see the 4 arrows…Then click and…DRAG
YOUR CATEGORY… TO THE SIDEBAR TO
ACTIVATE IT
25. Widgets
CHOOSE….Gravatar and drag it to the sidebar……….
• HIT THE DOWN ARROW of box TO VIEW the
FILL IN AREA…
• Select your name for user
• Choose Medium for size AND Center for alignment
• Gravatar, ……………..TITLE AND COMMENT THE GRAVATAR AS
FOLLOWS
• GRAVATAR TITLE = (example, PhD.) PhD. Information Science
• COMMENTS = NAME AND CONTACT example,
• Linda A. Smith
• Main St. Pittsburgh, PA
• (111)-111-1111
• linda@emailaddress.com
27. Widgets
CHOOSE THE image Widget
IMAGE CATEGORY………. DRAG THE IMAGE BAR
OVER SIX TIMES
• You should have one gravatar box FIRST………
then six image boxes
• FIRST FIVE IMAGE TITLES LEAVE BLANK (WE
DO NOT NEED THE TITLE HERE)
• LAST IMAGE TITLE IN ALL CAP’s JOIN OUR
DATABASE (this will lead you to search page
instantly)
29. Step Nine Activate Widgets
• GO TO MEDIA LIBRARY OPEN,
• CLICK ON IMAGE IT WILL BRING YOU TO THIS
EDIT MEDIA SCREEN
• Here you will find all the link information to
complete above just select it right click copy it
and paste it in the url links in the image fill box
30. Activate
• You will need TWO link urls for each Image
box
• One for the” image URL link” one for the
“actual material URL link”(CV and materials
you uploaded)
32. ……………………….PUT IMAGE LINKS IN THIS ORDER:…………………………………..
(ALWAYS HIT SAVE FOR YOUR SETTINGS TO APPEAR.).
• 1. ……………Print CV image……………………………………………………..
• IMAGE URL =PRINT CV BUTTON LINK
• LINK URL = YOUR Uploaded CV LINK
• 2. ……………….View Classroom PPT Image…………………………..
• IMAGE URL = VIEW CLASSROOM PPT
• LINK = YOUR Uploaded CLASSROOM MATERIALS LINK
• 3. ……………………..Portfolio Highlight Image………………………….
• IMAGE URL = PORFOLIO HIGHLIGHT LINK
• LINK = YOUR Uploaded PORFOLIO HIGHLIGHT MATERIAL
• 4. …………………Print Business Card Image………………………………………
• IMAGE = PRINT BUSINESS CARD LINK
• LINK = THE BUSINESS CARD LINK (You downloaded this with the header the one in the media
• library is blank you can use it for now but later just open it up in any graphics program fill in
• your information, save and upload it to your site to complete this step.)
• 5. ……………………Print Letterhead……………………………………………………
• IMAGE = PRINT LETTERHEAD LINK
• LINK = LETTERHEAD DOC ALREADY LOADED IN YOUR MEDIA LIBRARY
• 6. …………………Onlineprofessorbios Image………………………………….
• IMAGE = ONLINE PROFESSORS BIO SCREENPRINT
• LINK = http://www.onlineprofessorbios.com/...... Just type it in…………..
33. Step Ten
• GO TO THE PAGE OPTION,
• …..WHEN YOU PUT YOUR MOUSE OVER A PAGE…AN
EDIT PAGE OPTION WILL
• APPEAR CLICK THISGO TO EACH PAGE…. AND COPY
AND PASTE or type in YOUR CONTENT….. HIT
• UPDATE to save EVERYTIME YOU UPDATE YOUR
CONTENT.
• Set up your blog content as you like…….. it is ready to
go…start blogging….help is under support if you want
all the extra blog. Twitter, linkd and facebbook
features.
