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Quick guide
Week 1 – Domains, Hosting, Logos, Favicons, Colours, Sites You Like, Finding Images, Resizing Images, Social Media, Email Marketing
Week 2 – Logging on, Adding Logos, Adding colours and social media, Site style, ID and Favicon, Background Colours
Week 3 – Site structure, Page builder, Divi builder inc contact page, Modules, Testimonials, Menus
Week 4 – Plugins, Backing up, Security, Cookies, Privacy Policy, Widgets, Social Icons, SEO, Blogging
Week 5 – Changing the admin email, Checking contact forms, Connecting email marketing, Connecting a booking system, Landing pages, PayPal buttons
Extras – Google Analytics, Security certificates, Rolling back pages, Menu items that can’t be clicked, Mobile optimisation, Go live checklist
Week 1 – Foundations
This week we are getting all the peices in place to enable us to build our sites over the coming weeks.
Download the worksheet (below) and you may find that you are able to tick off a number of the activities.
If you want to download the video please click the little arrow on the bottom right corner of the video player screen. This means you can watch offline if that suits you better.
Get your worksheet here to make sure your foundations are in place
Would your rather download the video to watch offline? No problem
Domains
Hosting
Logos
Favicons
Colours
Sites You Like
Finding Images
Resizing Images
Social Media
Email Marketing
Week 2 – Headers, Footers, Colours and Fonts!
This week we are starting to personalise our sites.
Download the worksheet (below) and work through the different tasks until you have completed the top and bottom of your site. If you aren’t quite sure what you want at this stage, pick something you feel is OK for now and move on. You can always come back and tweak things later.
The video is also broken into the individual sections below the full recording.
If you want to download the video please click the little arrow on the bottom right corner of the video player screen. This means you can watch offline if that suits you better.
To make the video full screen click on the square in the bottom right hand corner of the video screen.
Get your week 2 worksheet here
Would your rather download the video to watch offline? No problem
Logging on and adding logos
Adding your colours and social media
Set Site Style, ID and Favicon
Background Colours
Week 3 – Structure, Building pages and Menus!
This week we are adding the content to your site.
Download the worksheet (below) and work through the different tasks as before. I will add the individual videos once they are split into the relevant sections.
If you want to download the video please click the little arrow on the bottom right corner of the video player screen. This means you can watch offline if that suits you better.
To make the video full screen click on the square in the bottom right hand corner of the video screen.
Get your week 3 worksheet here
Site Structure
Page structure theory
Divi Builder inc contact page
Modules
Testimonials
Menus
Week 4 – Updates, Security, Blogging, Social Icons, Widgets and Plugins.
Download the worksheet (below) and work through the different tasks as before. They are split into Essential and Optional tasks this week.
If you want to download the video please click the little arrow on the bottom right corner of the video player screen. This means you can watch offline if that suits you better.
To make the video full screen click on the square in the bottom right hand corner of the video screen.
Week 4 Video
Worksheet
Get your week 4 worksheet here
Adding Plugins and Backup up
Security
Cookies
Privacy Policy
Widgets
Adding Social Icons
SEO
Blogging
Week 5 – Connecting up your email marketing, booking and adding payment buttons!
Download the worksheet (below) and work through the different tasks as before. I will add the individual videos once they are split into the relevant sections.
If you want to download the video please click the little arrow on the bottom right corner of the video player screen. This means you can watch offline if that suits you better.
To make the video full screen click on the square in the bottom right hand corner of the video screen.
Week 5 video (sorry it doesn’t start till 15 minutes in and it’s a weird size!)
Get your week 5 worksheet here
Change adming email
Check your contact forms work (and add your email address if they don’t!)
Connect your email marketing account to your sign up box
Connect a Booking system
Landing Pages
Create PayPal buttons
Extra Videos
Fidly bits that might be useful