This document provides guidance on jazzing up a WordPress website for free by remodelling it with new themes, images, and content. It discusses where to find free themes and images that are responsive and customizable, looking at features like colors and widgets. It also offers tips on what to look for in themes and images, such as sizes and file formats. Finally, it provides suggestions for sources of new content for a library website, like analytics, board meetings and new materials. The goal is to introduce fresh themes, images and content to remodel a WordPress site for free.

1. REMODEL
YOUR
WEBSITE
JAZZ UP YOUR WORDPRESS SITE FOR
FREE

2. TO DO TODAY
• Introductions
• Themes
• Where to find them
• What to look for
• How to customize it for your library
• Images
• Where to find them
• What to look for
• How to properly credit image creators
• Content
• Where to find it
• What to put on your site

3. THEMES - WHERE
• Right-click  View Source
• Look for “wp-content/themes/” in the source code (Ctrl+f)
• The folder after themes contains the name of the theme
• http://www.nekls.org/wp-content/themes/arras-theme
• Search Google for that theme
• Your favorite sites?

4. THEMES - WHAT
• Buzzwords
• Responsive Design
• Mobile-first
• HTML5
• Customizable
• Colors
• Images
• Widgets

5. THEMES - HOW
Dashboard  Appearance  Themes
Install Themes
Search | Upload | Featured | Newest | Recently Updated
Feature Filter (color, columns, width, etc.)

7. IMAGES - WHERE
• Compfight
• Includes WP plugin so you can search from post editing
box
• Can set the level of copyright
• Search.creativecommons.org
• Open Clip Art - http://openclipart.org/
• DPLA – http://dp.la
PicMonkey

8. IMAGES - WHAT
• Look for images that relate to your blog post
• File formats
• .jpg
• .gif
• .png
• Sizes
• Pixels (under 500 wide, sometimes
less than 300 wide, depends on
the theme)

9. IMAGES - HOW
• Find a CC, public domain or Open Access
image
• Download it to your computer (right-
click, Save Image)
• Use WP’s Media Library to upload it to your
site
• WP’s built-in tools are not comprehensive
• The Gimp
• Photoshop
• Pixlr, Splashup, Sumopaint

11. CONTENT - WHERE
• Analytics
• What are people searching for?
• What links are clicked most?
• Board Meetings
• Events and Programs
• New Materials (pictures you take of book covers are yours
– no copyright issues)

12. CONTENT - WHAT
• Location
• Hours
• Contact Information

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