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Information Technology - Wordpress

Free site-building services allow users to easily create websites without cost, but come with restrictions and lack of control. With a self-hosted WordPress website on your own domain, you own the site and have full control over content without restrictions from the platform. WordPress is widely used by both professionals and everyday users due to its ease of use and powerful, free features that allow creating a website without coding knowledge. It provides a simple interface to build a site without needing skills in HTML, PHP, or other languages.

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Information Technology - Wordpress

Free site-building services allow users to easily create websites without cost, but come with restrictions and lack of control. With a self-hosted WordPress website on your own domain, you own the site and have full control over content without restrictions from the platform. WordPress is widely used by both professionals and everyday users due to its ease of use and powerful, free features that allow creating a website without coding knowledge. It provides a simple interface to build a site without needing skills in HTML, PHP, or other languages.

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INTRODUCTION TO WEB

DESIGN
WORDPRESS
What Is The Difference Between A
Domain Name And A Website
Free site-building services.
Why should I build my own website when I can easily get online for free?

Having your own web presence is now pretty much essential in today’s online world.

Even teenagers have their own pages on sites such as Facebook and the many other social

networks.

What is the problem of free site?


The problem is :
 These free site-building services can come and go.

 Change the rules without notice.

 Impose restrictions.

 Some free services can shut your site down if they don’t approve of your content.

 Many will clutter up your site with trashy ads.

 your free site can disappear overnight if the service goes bust or gets taken over.

 They offer little or no technical support when you really need it.
So why should I build my own website
on my own domain?
The answer is that, with your own privately registered domain and hosting account, YOU
own and control the website, not anybody else. You can put whatever you like on your site
(within the bounds of legality) and no-one can tell you otherwise. You are your own boss.

Your domain becomes your very own exclusive web address, your own piece of online
virtual ‘real estate’ that plays its part in publicizing your mission or message.

These days, if you don’t have your own online web presence, you are invisible.
But don’t I need a professional web designer to
make a good job of building a website?
No, definitely not! This used to be the case in the early days of the Internet because only a few
tech-savvy geeks knew and understood the computer language (HTML) that translated your
words and pictures into the code that browsers understand.

But as the technology has advanced, so have the tools to build websites become more
accessible.

WordPress is one of these tools and WordPress is the subject of this Course.
What Is WordPress?
WordPress is a powerful (and free!) package of software that sits in the
background on your web server (the remote computer where your domain is
hosted) and performs all the technical processing that delivers your content to
your visitor on their local computer.
Once WordPress is installed on your domain you don’t need to do anything to
make it work. It just sits there and performs its magic entirely behind the scenes.
WordPress provides a WYSIWYG (‘what you see is what you get’) interface to
you, the webmaster, that bypasses the need to know any HTML, PHP, CSS,
JavaScript, MySQL or any other coding language.
WordPress is now actually used by some of the major players on the Internet as a complete
Content Management System (CMS).
Think CNN, The New York Times, About.com, White House, US Post Office, and Ford Motors -
they all make use of WordPress.
And, in addition to the experts, millions of ordinary people and small businesses around
the world also use WordPress as their platform of choice to get a presence on the web.
What’s so special about WordPress?
 WordPress is FREE and open-source.

 WordPress is stable and maintained by an army of experts.

 WordPress contains numerous behind-the-scenes features that make creating

your own website a breeze.


Wordpress.com
SIGN UP
Step 1-4
Step 2-4
Step 3-4
Step 4-4
Done
Click on My Site
Customize your site
Before publish
Email to confirm
About the Theme
Site Profile
Site Icon
The Site Icon is used as a browser and app icon for
your site. Icons must be square, and at least 512
pixels wide and tall.

Tagline :
a tagline tells visitors what your site is all about
without having to read all your content. Enter a
short descriptive phrase about your site into
the Site Tagline field.
Custom Header Image.

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