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Quote:Create a fresh beautiful website or blog using WordPress. In this 3-day course you'll learn how to get your photos online quickly and easily using the popular WordPress platform. Learn the basics of building a site using free or custom themes to create an amazing showcase of art and inspiration. You don't have to be a web designer to use WordPress - it's that easy!

Cappers Notes:
Apart from a few glitches with creativeLIVE this is pretty much as aired on the HD stream. The last part of day three comes from the SD stream due to a problem with the HD one, there are very few buffering issues and on the whole I'm pretty pleased with this.

When I started capping these broadcasts there was no one else doing so, we missed some great content, as of this course there are four separate versions, that should mean we get every single broadcast in 2012.

Session 1 November 29, 2011
9:00 am - What Can WordPress Do?
9:10 am - WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
9:20 am - Domains and Hosting
9:30 am - Domains Q&A
9:40 am - Demo: 1-Click Install on HostGator
9:50 am - Audience Q&A
10:45 am - WordPress Dashboard Oveview
11:15 am - WordPress Dashboard: Settings
11:45 am - Audience Q&A
12:00 pm - Working with Posts
12:30 pm - Posts Q&A
1:30 pm - Working with Pages
2:00 pm - Audience Q&A
2:45 pm - Using WordPress Plug-ins
3:30 pm - WordPress Themes
4:00 pm - Final Q&A

Session 2 November 30, 2011
9:00 am - Managing Your Media
9:30am - Managing Your Media Q&A
9:45 am - Working with Video
10:00 am - Top 5 Photo Plug-ins
10:15 am - Top 5 Video Plug-ins
10:30 am - Top 5 Themes for Video
11:00 am - Creating a Discussion
11:15 am - Moderating Comments
11:30 am - Creating Ratings and Polls
11:45 am - Purchasing a Theme
12:00 pm - Customizing a Theme
12:15 pm - Editing Code for Non-Geeks
1:15 pm - Customizing Themes Q&A
1:30 pm - CSS Crash Course
1:45 pm - Using the WordPress Codex
2:00 pm - Creating and Using Menus
2:15 pm - Lightbox Plugins
2:30 pm - WordPress Codex, Menus and Plugins Q&A
2:45 pm - General WordPress Q&A
3:30 pm - Optimizing Images Q&A
3:45 pm - Displaying High Resolution Images on the Web

Session 3 December 1, 2011
9:00 am - Protecting Images Online
9:30 am - Adding Watermarks
9:45 am - Copywriting Images
10:00 am - SEO 101
10:30 am - Engaging Your Audience
10:45 am - URL Shortening
11:00am - Exporting/Importing WordPress Data
11:15 am - Backing Up WordPress
11:30 am - Security 101
11:45 am - Spotting Trustworthy Themes/Plugins
12:00 pm - Trustworthy Themes/Plugins Q&A
1:15 pm - Battling Spam
1:45 pm - Dealing with a Hacked Site
2:00 pm - Protecting Your Site
2:15 pm - Using Web Fonts
2:30 pm - Web Fonts Q&A
3:00 pm - Monetizing Your Content
3:45 pm - Final Q&A

BIO:
"Educating the World One Pixel at a Time" Justin Seeley is an experienced software trainer, graphic designer, and entrepreneur with his finger on the pulse of the social web. He is the creator and host of the Photoshop Quicktips Podcast, a show that consistently ranks in the top-25 software how-to podcasts on iTunes, and his techniques have been featured on numerous podcasts, blogs, and internet magazines. Justin has also authored over 50hrs of content for Total Training, Inc. on a variety of desktop publishing and digital imaging topics.

Reviews:

Good class that takes you from uber beginner (getting your domain and host) to having a functioning website in a relatively short time.
I understood the entire class, but then I'm an advanced designer. I can see, however, where someone who does not do this for a living or even part time could easily get lost. If you absolutely insist on doing it yourself, this class shows you how. Buy the class. That way you can watch, rewatch and watch again the parts that go over your head.
As an advanced designer and photographer, this class was good place to learn about the specialized plugins geared towards photographers that will make your life easier. I found the more basic information a nice review on the stuff I do right

First of all let me say how much I enjoyed this course. I found Justin's approach easy to follow and I didn't start to nod off once. However, Like many other comments I agree that the term "Photographer" was a little mis-placed. My wife and I are a business team she does most of the photography and I do all the techy stuff. Needless to say I ended up watching the course on my own. As a photographer my wife lost interest. I found it most informative and at times wished there had been more time to go into certain issues deeper.
I have purchased the download as there was a lot to absorb and my brain was staring to go into overload towards the end.
To sum up: Well done Creative and the team for another excelent workshop. Pass on my regards to Susan Roderick, she has pulled my questions out of the chat forum on many occasions.