Awesome How-To Site Helps Beginners Navigate WordPress
Check out WPBeginner, an excellent site filled with tutorials and advice for budding web builders getting started with WordPress.
Every professional web developer has been asked at some point by a relative or close friend to “help me build a website.”
Our web skills play a large part in endearing us to our non-technical friends, and everyone likes to be appreciated, but that request probably makes you shudder every time you hear it.
Tools like WordPress have grown so terribly easy to use, most people are capable of building a simple site with a blog, a photo gallery, contact form and other simple functionality all by themselves. They just don’t know it, and building things on the web is such unfamiliar territory, they simply haven’t bothered to fully explore their options.
Go ahead and point them to WPBeginner. It’s an impressive repository of clearly-written articles on how to install and set up WordPress, including advice on picking and installing themes and plug-ins — Akismet, Super Cache and Feedsmith are on the recommended list. For absolute beginners, there’s also a list of WordPress-friendly hosting providers, advice on picking and purchasing a good domain name and advice on using the latest social tools to increase readership.
The editorial staff actively responds to user questions in the comments on all the articles, too, so it’s a good place to go for help.
For the seasoned users, there are more advanced tutorials and articles about customizing layouts, improving search rankings and using JQuery.
WPBeginner also offers a free WordPress setup service. They’ll install a simple blog site for you free of charge — all they ask is that you name them as a referral with one their partnered hosting providers.
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