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During the first half of every lesson, teacher instruction will be provided on how to complete that day’s activity. The second half of every lesson will allow students to build their websites.

Week 1

• Introductions
• Expectations
• Student introduction activities
• Introduction to business and organization websites
• Domain Names
• Setting up free gmails for business

Week 2

• Initial website setup including hosting, domain, WordPress, and website designs workshop

Week 3

• What are plugins and how to use them;
• Why do we backup our websites;
• What are website forms;
• Understanding Privacy Policies

Weeks 4-9

• What are page builders;
• How to use Elementor to build your website;
• Build web pages;
• Learn about posts

Weeks 10-11

• Headers, Footers, Copyright, Menu Navigation workshops

Week 12

• Closing week

WordPress is one of the largest used website building platforms that professional website developers use. WordPress is an easy to use platform that requires very little coding knowledge. Students in this course will not need to know coding to build their own website. Students may learn a few basic coding techniques.

During class, students will set up their own WordPress account to create their own websites. Creation and setup of WordPress will be taught in this course.

We like to have fun in our courses. We are thorough in execution but joyful in presentation. We do expect students to follow instruction and do the assignments, and we welcome every question a student may ask. We use slides to help present lessons and hands-on work to engage student learning. We love having students bring in their own learning styles and ways of participation. Since this is a small class, we do expect to interact with all students. We want to learn about students and what they are experienced in.

We have over 15 years of marketing and communications experience and have built websites for businesses and organizations. Having our own marketing business has allowed us to build websites for businesses, organizations, and professionals.

If a student does not finish his or her work during that day’s lesson, the student is expected to finish it prior to the next class lesson. This class does meet once a week for 12 weeks and it is expected for each student to keep up with the lessons and any work in the lesson.

• Desktop or laptop computer
• Reliable internet access (It is the student’s responsibility to make sure their internet is working in order to take the course in full.)
• Email account to create a WordPress account (Please do not create a WordPress account before class. There are specific steps we need students to take during the set up process.)
• Interest to share your passions with others
• A notebook and pen/pencil may be helpful for note taking

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