[Blindtlk] Word Press Course for the Blind

[David Andrews]

Also, could you post the attached message to the blind webmasters 
list?  I'm not sure if this got posted before. The Cavi wordpress 
course is low on participants and won't run this semester if they 
don't get more people.  The deadline is tomorrow.








-------- Original Message --------
Subject: WordPress course blurb
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:02:27 -0500
From: Amanda Rush 
<mailto:amanda at customerservant.com><amanda at customerservant.com>
To: <mailto:jfayre at gmail.com>jfayre at gmail.com



If you've taken Cavi's Intro to HTML5 and CSS course, you have a solid
foundation in HTML, CSS, and web design. You have the skills necessary to
build and maintain a small personal or business website. You know more
than most people about how to build accessible web pages that look good
too.

Is that enough, or do you want to build a medium to large website with a
lot of new content? Do you want to launch a business with pages that
gracefully feature your products and that make shopping easy for your
customers? Do you want to have access to tools that extend your reach as a
web designer while saving you time and unnecessary repetitive work? Or
maybe you've always wanted to host a podcast with a site where you can
post your ideas and projects.

If your answer to any of these questions is yes, the Cisco Academy for the
Vision Impaired is launching a new course about web design using
WordPress, a powerful and high quality content management system. You may
know about WordPress from reading blogs. What you may not know is that
WordPress can do far more than blogging. It is a fully functional web
design platform with security features and flexibility. It can easily
generate search engine friendly link structures, add contact forms,
integrate shopping carts for products, generate sitemaps, and makes adding
new content for you or your support team easy.

You've seen what happens when a hand-coded site grows large quickly. It's
tough to make systemic changes because you have to manually fix each page.
A CMS prevents that from happening.

You need some foundational web design knowledge to really make a CMS do
what you want. You got most of that in the HTML class. You can stop here
if you plan to stick with a small website, say 10 pages or less. If your
dreams and goals are bigger than that, the CMS fundamentals course can
teach you how to make WordPress do your heavy lifting so you can focus on
providing content, products, or services to people online.

This course will teach things like: How to install WordPress securely How
to secure your site's content effectively How to choose themes to make
your site look great How to make WordPress pages look like a website, not
a blog How to use plugins to tweak and add powerful features to your site
How to add multimedia and photos to your site How to integrate search
engine optimization into every page as its built How to integrate social
media so your site visitors can start conversations with you about your
products or site How to make it easy for nontechnical people on your
support team to add content And much, much more.

Does this interest you? If it does, please write to caviinfo @ ciscovision
. org (without the spaces) to let us know you'd like to enroll. We don't
need a new application if you're a current student or alumni of the HTML
course. Knowledge of HTML is assumed in this course, so you either need to
be an HTML graduate when it starts or have a demonstrable background in
HTML to be sure you know HTML well enough to keep up with the course. The
course, as with all CAVI courses, will begin in the third week of
February.