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A short post to signpost you to a site for beginners called wpbeginner. It’s a bit advert heavy, but there’s a lot of useful info on there. We’d be interested to know what you think of it, so please leave a comment.
The intrepid SCIP trainers travelled to wildest South Wales last week (18 & 19 July) for the annual WordCamp UK.
WordCamp 09 was a get together of WordPress users, developers, designers, geeks and tech heads. A number of workshops were held across the weekend. These included sessions on SEO, a workshop from Google about how their search engine works with WordPress and a talk from the designer/developer of Stephen Fry’s new WordPress site. There were inspiring talks from Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, the co-founders of WordPress.
For those of you feeling confident with the basic WordPress.com tools!
If you want to make changes to the theme you’re using – such as changing the background colour or the type of font – you need to start tampering with the CSS (cascading style sheets). CSS is the instruction for the way a web page looks.
You can’t do this in .com without paying a modest fee ($15). However you can have a play about for free. Go to Appearance > Edit CSS in the Dashboard.
The first thing that you see when you log-in to your site is the Dashboard. This is where you can see an overview of the structure of your site, as well as access the range of tools and functions to build your site. Read the rest of this entry »
There is a rising awareness of environmental issues, an increased interest in self-sufficiency and permaculture as well as an continuing spread of the transition towns movement. If you are interested in things green and being responsible Read the rest of this entry »
