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Tonight’s discussion

• Pick your discussion session
  • Competitive analysis – Joe
  • CMS – Marcel
  • SEO – Tariq
  • Social – Yorlanda
• Check out domain name availability
  • Dynadot.com
  • Name.com
• Create hosting account
• Skills survey (on Slack)
• DropBox: design overview

Lab

• Posts versus pages (why do we care?)
• WordPress 101 – Dashboard (video)
• Manage my profile
• Settings checklist
• HTML introduction (anatomy of a web page)

Hosting companies

• SiteGround ($7.95/month paid annually — advise against $3.95 plan – free domain name)
  Find name servers by logging in to your C Panel
• MediaTemple ($20/month up – can do month-by-month – no free domain name)
  NS1.MEDIATEMPLE.NET
  NS2.MEDIATEMPLE.NET

Next session assignments

• Read/resources: (see main page)
• Project: have your hosting/domain name set up before class and bring login information to class (you’ll need to login on a computer, not your phone)
• Best practices: comments (comment on classmate reading posts – due end of class)
• Install on your home machine / laptop:
  • PC > NotePad ++
  • Mac > TextWrangler 
• We may also use an online editor in class