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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
- 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