Build your very own website with free tools covered in this course!
WordPress: Web Building for Beginners
Learn to build your very own professional website without the need to code!
WordPress: Web Building for Beginners covers all the basics you will need to build a fully functional WordPress website. This course includes in-depth tutorials in how to use the Elementor page builder.
What you'll learn
Introduction
A brief introduction to the key principles of web building and WordPress
Building for Free
The essential list of free plugins and themes to build a website with minimal bloat
Website Security
How to set up a firewall, limit and block malicious users and how to scan and remove malware
Elementor Page Builder
In-depth tutorials into the most popular WordPress page builder around
Form Capture & Database
How to build dynamic contact forms for your visitors and sync them with Mailchimp
Website Optimisation
Speed and load time is everything to keeping your visitors engaged. Learn how to optimise your website
Course Length
Web Build
Building your own website alongside the course
24 hours
Just to Learn
Taking the course to learn and up-skill (no build)
3-6 hours
£29.95
+ 1 Month Free Hosting
- Free hosting limited offer!
This course includes:
- On-demand video tutorials
- 82 articles
- Full lifetime access
- Mobile compatible
- Build a website as you learn
- 2 interactive quizzes
- Certificate of completion
Free WordPress support?
Join our Facebook group to share your progress and receive free support with your build!
Requirements
No Coding Knowledge Required
- A laptop or desktop
- Basic knowledge of computers and web browsers
- A domain
- SSL Certificate
- WordPress installed onto your server
All these come as standard on a PODHost plan. For a limited time, PODTech is including 1 month’s free web hosting as part of the Web Building for Beginners e-course.
Course Description
Build beautiful and dynamic websites without the need for coding. Our simple tutorials and videos will guide you though the whole process and when you graduate you will have a fully functional website for you or your business.
It’s been a long dream for PODTech to create a WordPress course and make web building accessible for everyone. For this course we use the basic free version of Elementor with its simple drag and drop features combined with our much loved theme, OceanWP.
Together we will build a mockup scuba diving website and finally build your very own website using 2 key principles:
- Web Design – taking shapes, images, font type and colour and making something visually interesting
- User Experience – how to take ideas and make your designs work in a web browser
Along our journey together we will cover:
- Basic web design
- Fundamentals to graphic design
- Web building skills like wire framing
- Branding, typography and colour
- Free themes and plugins to build your website
- Firewalls and website security
- Website load times and optimisation
- Optimising and using appropriate image sizes
- Contact forms and syncing with Mailchimp
- How to use Elementor like a pro
- How to troubleshoot and fix minor conflicts
Our goal here is to teach you to build your very own website and maintain it into the future without having to pay thousands to hire a developer.
Who is this course for?
Complete Beginner
No knowledge of coding required. This course is perfect for complete beginners who have no graphic design experience and have never built a website before.
Taking the Step from Wix to WordPress
This course is ideal for those wanting to take their website to the next level. If you are thinking of transitioning from clunky web building tools like Wix, Squarespace or Shopify to a professional, industry standard like WordPress. This course will support you achieving your goals.
Graphic Designer but Never Built a Website
Perhaps you are a graphic designer who has designed websites and sent the designs off to a developer and are now looking to keep your web building in-house. This course can help your business grow and take on bigger projects.
Up-skilling
This course is great to follow through and learn new skills to add to your CV.
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