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Wordpress Websites Step-by-step: The Complete Beginner's Guide to Creating a Website or Blog With Wordpress
Have you ever wanted to create a website but found it too complicated or confusing?
WordPress is the single most popular way to create a website or blog. It's used by Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, authors, photographers, bloggers and non-profits to build a professional website easily.
You can do the same - and you don't need to be a computer expert or web geek. This easy-to-use, visual guide shows you everything you need to know.
What you'll learn in WordPress Websites Step-by-Step: How to choose a great domain name and get good value, reliable web hostingHow to install WordPress in a few mouse clicks How to publish posts and pages with correctly formatted text How to give your website a professional touch by using images and videos How to customize your web design without needing to be a programmerHow to add easily add complex features to your site with free and premium "plugins"How to use Search Engine Optimization to get ranked better by GoogleHow to keep your website secure How to solve the most common WordPress problems
...and lots more.
There's also a bonus chapter on getting the first visitors to your site, along with additional video tutorials by the author. Plus, the book is packed with links to additional resources and free design themes and plugins to help you build a website on a budget.
Clear explanations and over 55 images of the admin screens and tools mean you can see exactly how to do everything. No more head-scratching or frustration!
After reading this book you'll have a unique, professional and easy-to-use website to be proud of - and you'll have created it yourself!
Whether you want to build a simple website for your company or organization, make money with a blog or a full online store, this non-geek guide will get you online quickly - saving you time and frustration.
WordPress is the single most popular way to create a website or blog. It's used by Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, authors, photographers, bloggers and non-profits to build a professional website easily.
You can do the same - and you don't need to be a computer expert or web geek. This easy-to-use, visual guide shows you everything you need to know.
What you'll learn in WordPress Websites Step-by-Step: How to choose a great domain name and get good value, reliable web hostingHow to install WordPress in a few mouse clicks How to publish posts and pages with correctly formatted text How to give your website a professional touch by using images and videos How to customize your web design without needing to be a programmerHow to add easily add complex features to your site with free and premium "plugins"How to use Search Engine Optimization to get ranked better by GoogleHow to keep your website secure How to solve the most common WordPress problems
...and lots more.
There's also a bonus chapter on getting the first visitors to your site, along with additional video tutorials by the author. Plus, the book is packed with links to additional resources and free design themes and plugins to help you build a website on a budget.
Clear explanations and over 55 images of the admin screens and tools mean you can see exactly how to do everything. No more head-scratching or frustration!
After reading this book you'll have a unique, professional and easy-to-use website to be proud of - and you'll have created it yourself!
Whether you want to build a simple website for your company or organization, make money with a blog or a full online store, this non-geek guide will get you online quickly - saving you time and frustration.
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94 pages, Paperback
First published January 4, 2013
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September 19, 2016
Headache gone
WP can be a little tricky and this book simply made things easier for me with great advice. I was a little overwhelmed at first, but kept through the book and everything started to make sense.
Thank you for creating this book! It was a huge help.
WP can be a little tricky and this book simply made things easier for me with great advice. I was a little overwhelmed at first, but kept through the book and everything started to make sense.
Thank you for creating this book! It was a huge help.
April 16, 2013
This book was reviewed by Lee Ashford for Reader's Favorite.
"WordPress Websites Step-by-Step" by Caimin Jones is the owner's manual that should come with every website or blog developed by using WordPress. Caimin has extensive experience using WordPress, and he has encountered just about every question anybody could come up with. He has taken his knowledge, distilled the techno-speak down to plain English, and put together what could easily be called a "Do It Yourself" guide to building a website or blog.
Just making that one simple accommodation would be a great help to most people, but Caimin went even further with his desire to make this easy. He has created a step-by-step set of instructions to help you build a website using WordPress, with its many helpful and included tools. His title says it all: "WordPress Websites Step-by-Step - The Complete Beginner's Guide to Building a Website or Blog With WordPress". It can't get any clearer than that!
When I was a child, certain toy kits came with instructions like this: "Insert Tab A into Slot B", which sounds simple enough, until you actually start trying to find Tab A or Slot B. Caimin's instructions are nothing like that.
He provides a laundry list of options for your consideration, then shows and tells you WHERE to find what you'll need to implement your chosen option, then shows and tells you HOW to do what you have to do to end up with what you want to end up with. (That sentence is more complicated than Caimin's instructions!)
This book should really be on your bookshelf if you think you will ever even consider the possibility of developing your own website, online store, or blog. Even if you KNOW you NEVER intend to do any of those things, but are just curious about how they are done, you need this book. This is the cookbook containing the recipe for how to make a professional looking, inexpensive website. I heartily recommend it for anybody who knows how to turn on a computer and click a mouse.
"WordPress Websites Step-by-Step" by Caimin Jones is the owner's manual that should come with every website or blog developed by using WordPress. Caimin has extensive experience using WordPress, and he has encountered just about every question anybody could come up with. He has taken his knowledge, distilled the techno-speak down to plain English, and put together what could easily be called a "Do It Yourself" guide to building a website or blog.
Just making that one simple accommodation would be a great help to most people, but Caimin went even further with his desire to make this easy. He has created a step-by-step set of instructions to help you build a website using WordPress, with its many helpful and included tools. His title says it all: "WordPress Websites Step-by-Step - The Complete Beginner's Guide to Building a Website or Blog With WordPress". It can't get any clearer than that!
When I was a child, certain toy kits came with instructions like this: "Insert Tab A into Slot B", which sounds simple enough, until you actually start trying to find Tab A or Slot B. Caimin's instructions are nothing like that.
He provides a laundry list of options for your consideration, then shows and tells you WHERE to find what you'll need to implement your chosen option, then shows and tells you HOW to do what you have to do to end up with what you want to end up with. (That sentence is more complicated than Caimin's instructions!)
This book should really be on your bookshelf if you think you will ever even consider the possibility of developing your own website, online store, or blog. Even if you KNOW you NEVER intend to do any of those things, but are just curious about how they are done, you need this book. This is the cookbook containing the recipe for how to make a professional looking, inexpensive website. I heartily recommend it for anybody who knows how to turn on a computer and click a mouse.
March 1, 2013
I have been using Wordpress for sometime now, and as Mr. Jones advocates even delved into the more complex Wordpress.org version.
You have to be a little tech savvy to use this version, unless you read Mr. Jones' guide. Here things are laid out very well, and there are links to the plugins that he recommends that will enhance your site.
Perhaps the one thing that he could have added would have been more examples, and illustrations showing exactly where to look on the website you are building. Perhaps creating a fictitious website to take us all the way through building and then we could have fabricated our own while reading this very quick, but thorough guide.
Recommended for anyone who needs a quick website and will use Wordpress to do it.
You have to be a little tech savvy to use this version, unless you read Mr. Jones' guide. Here things are laid out very well, and there are links to the plugins that he recommends that will enhance your site.
Perhaps the one thing that he could have added would have been more examples, and illustrations showing exactly where to look on the website you are building. Perhaps creating a fictitious website to take us all the way through building and then we could have fabricated our own while reading this very quick, but thorough guide.
Recommended for anyone who needs a quick website and will use Wordpress to do it.
May 8, 2013
WordPress Websites Step-by-Step takes away the fear of making your own site.
I have been using WordPress for a number of years now so I basically knew everything in this book but there is definite value here for the newbie or someone who isn't that confident with WordPress.
As someone who works in social media many of my clients want to control their own sites and I often recommend WordPress to them. I will also recommend this book as a guide.
Thank you Caimin for putting WordPress in plain English.
Recommended to those who want to make their first site or need help with a present one.
I have been using WordPress for a number of years now so I basically knew everything in this book but there is definite value here for the newbie or someone who isn't that confident with WordPress.
As someone who works in social media many of my clients want to control their own sites and I often recommend WordPress to them. I will also recommend this book as a guide.
Thank you Caimin for putting WordPress in plain English.
Recommended to those who want to make their first site or need help with a present one.
April 3, 2014
WordPress Websites Step-by-Step takes away the fear of making your own site.
I have been using WordPress for a number of years now so I basically knew everything in this book but there is definite value here for the newbie or someone who isn't that confident with WordPress.
As someone who works in social media many of my clients want to control their own sites and I often recommend WordPress to them. I will also recommend this book as a guide.
Thank you Caimin for putting WordPress in plain English.
Recommended to those who want to make their first site or need help with a present one.
I have been using WordPress for a number of years now so I basically knew everything in this book but there is definite value here for the newbie or someone who isn't that confident with WordPress.
As someone who works in social media many of my clients want to control their own sites and I often recommend WordPress to them. I will also recommend this book as a guide.
Thank you Caimin for putting WordPress in plain English.
Recommended to those who want to make their first site or need help with a present one.
April 22, 2014
I used this book, step-by-step, as the title says, to set up my blog on WordPress. The information is presented in a clear, logical manner and I set up my eReader next to my computer as I worked through the steps. Outstanding.
March 2, 2015
I would have preferred more screenshots. Laid out simply, good for starting your own site. If you are working on a pre-existing site, not as helpful as other books might be. Good for those with little website experience.
December 29, 2015
Lots of gaps for a step by step guide
I wouldn't recommend purchasing this book, but if you can get it for free and you are a complete novice to Wordpress it could help save a couple hours in searching for the answers online.
I wouldn't recommend purchasing this book, but if you can get it for free and you are a complete novice to Wordpress it could help save a couple hours in searching for the answers online.
May 13, 2014
Nicely done overview.
October 9, 2014
Helpful, quick guide.
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