Building yourwp website
- 1. Welcome Building your Wordpress Website
- 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
- 3. The Log on is here Log on
- 4. THE DROP DOWN MENU APPEARS WHEN DROP DOWN MENUS YOU MOUSE OVER YOUR PAGE NAME CHOOSE DASHBOARD
- 5. Step Two - View Dashboard
- 6. Step Three - The Theme Choose the Appearance tab in the search box type Ocean Mist Choose this theme
- 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
- 12. Title of Page
- 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…….
- 14. Settings
- 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)
- 16. Profile
- 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.
- 18. Library
- 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
- 21. Header
- 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
- 23. BEFORE
- 24. AFTER
- 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
- 26. Down Arrow on the Gravatar
- 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)
- 28. Button Links for Materials
- 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)
- 31. Activate
- 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.
- 34. Activate
- 35. Content
- 36. Congratulations