Website Building Course Outline

Month 1

• Week 1: Intro
  • Why?
  • What is WordPress
  • Why should you use it?
  • Open source vs Closed source
  • Take a taste

• Week 2: Testing environment
  
  • Practice space to run wild
  • Intro to wordpress

• Week 3: Going live
  • Set up a domain and hosting account
  • Installing WordPress

• Week 4: Control Panel
  • Setting up an email account
  • C-panel basics
  • Backups
  • Passwords

Month 2

• Week 5: Log me in
  
  • Login to my admin
  • General WordPress Settings
  • Simple Theme
  • Firewall

• Week 6: A taste of home
  
  • Customization
    • Site Icon
    • Website title
    • etc
  • Users and Profiles

• Week 7: Anatomy of a website (part 1)
  
  • Pages

• Week 8: Anatomy of a website (part 2)
  • Posts

Month 3

• Week 9: Plug me in
  • Plugin search
  • Uploading plugins
  • Activation, deactivation and deletion
  • Must have plugins and premium stuff
  • Plugin Troubleshooting
  • Next class prep

• Week 10: Analytics
  • Plausible
  • Integration
  • Analytics data pearls

• Week 11: Intro to Gutenberg and Code Editor
  
  • Designing a homepage and page design

 

• Week 12: Continued
  
  • Basic HTML and CSS
  • Security Pearls

Month 4

• Week 13: Contact Forms
  
  • Contact form 7

• Week 14: Headers and Footers
  
  • Branding
  • Linking

• Week 15: Policies
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms
  • Delivery
  • Refunds
  • Legal

• Week 16: Model Website
  
  • Informative
  • Blog

Month 5

• Week 17: E-commerce 1
  
  • MUST register business
  • Woocomerce
  • User login and registration

• Week 18: E-commerce 2
  
  • Shipping and Delivery
  • Making Products
  • Categories
  • Product Page

• Week 19: E-commerce 3
  
  • Basic Payment methods
  • Coupons

• Week 20: E-commerce 4
  
  • Setting up credit card payments

Month 6 – Wrapping things up and Q&A

• Week 21: A need for speed 1
  
  • LightSpeed Cache
  • Pingdom
  • Importance of speed

• Week 22: A need for speed 2
  
  • Cloud flare CDN
  • Importance of CDN

• Week 23: Basic SEO
  
  • Get inside Google
  • Keywords

• Week 24:That’s a wrap
  
  • Q & A
  • General Feedback

Month 7 – Bonus Round

• Week 25: Poptin

• Week 26: 2FA

• Week 27: Setmore

• Week 28: Add-ons
  
  • Live chat concierge service
  • Consultation Fee
  • Carrizon.com
  • Edcubation.com