Creating a Website for Business Promotion in the Wordpress.com Environment, Level 1

• Register on WordPress.com.
• Create a website address.
• Navigate the WordPress.com work environment.
• Choose a design theme and customize it.
• Create a profile in the Gravatar application and use it.
• Add icons and images to the website.
• Create and manage website menus and pages.
• Create posts and define categories.
• Insert the necessary content on the website (text, images, videos, hyperlinks, maps, etc.).
• Delete the website or make it temporarily unavailable.

Basic computer skills are desirable.

Training materials and practical examples prepared by BDA.

Not intended.

1. Open source content management system WordPress.com.

2. Creating a website plan.

3. Signing up for WordPress.com.

4. Signing in and out of your WordPress.com account.

5. WordPress.com work environment, navigation, and basic settings:

• profile addition and basic settings;

• adding a profile picture and the Gravatar app;

• managing activity notifications;

• adding a post button;

• following other pages and posts;

• viewing My Site and Dashboard options;

• viewing My Site options; 

• viewing page statistics;

• dashboard.

6. Choosing a theme for the homepage and its design.

7. Adding an icon image to the homepage.

8. Creating a website structure:

• customizing the functional elements of the website;
• menus and pages on the website;
• working with menus;
• adding a new page to the website;
• editing an existing page;
• inserting and formatting an image on the page;
• inserting a map on the page;
• converting the home page to a static page.

9. Creating posts and using categories:

• creating and editing categories;
• adding a post to a category;
• using post formats;
• adding an image, video, and link to a post;
• creating a post in the My Site view.

10. Website visual design:

• replacing the header image;
• choosing colors and backgrounds;
• changing fonts;
• changing the website identity text.

11. Website visibility and deletion.