WordPress.com Essential Training 2013

Learn how to create your own website or blog with WordPress.com—the free, easy-to-use service that is democratizing publishing on the web. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to sign up for an account, personalize your profile, and start posting right away. Plus, learn how to add the images, videos, and links that make blog posts pop, enable social sharing and mobile browsing, and change the appearance of your site with custom themes, widgets, and menus.

WordPress Quick Tips: Migration and Database Reset

What happens if you need to move your WordPress site? Maybe you found a better hosting service, got your own domain name, or maybe you’re finally ready to move to production. This course offers an advanced way to migrate a WordPress site from one location to another by duplicating and resetting the database. Let Morten Rand-Hendriksen guide you through the five steps of migration, and get you up and running in your new location.

Joomla! 3 Essential Training

In this course, Jen Kramer shows how to use Joomla! to build a website from scratch—all without a single line of code. Discover how to create and organize content, add menus and sidebars, change the look of the site with templates, control who creates and edits content, and much more. The course also shows you how to evaluate the quality of extensions, plugins, and templates and how to download and install them. Finally, Jen emphasizes the importance of backing up your Joomla! site, and explains how to create and store those backups.

Drupal 7 Custom Module Development

Extend your Drupal 7 sites with custom modules, which allow you to create everything from admin interfaces to forms. Author Jon Peck describes how modules extend your base Drupal installation, then walks through how to write your own module with a practical example featuring geo-positioned alternative energy centers. The course also describes how to control access to site features, create new content types, build forms, understand data persistence, embrace coding standards, and much more.

Installing and Running WordPress: WebMatrix

Installing WordPress on your computer gives you a perfect testing ground for experimentation, theme development, plugin testing, and website development. This course is designed for Windows users who want to install and configure WordPress locally on a PC with Microsoft WebMatrix, a free web development application and web server environment that sets the stage for more serious WordPress development. Author Morten Rand-Hendriksen covers the configuration options and usage scenarios to get you started working in WordPress quickly.

100 Beginner WordPress Tips (See How Tips)

WordPress makes it easy to manage your website, but how easily are you managing WordPress?

Most people take to WordPress right away, yet there are lots of tricks, little-known functions, and workarounds that will help you save time, and avoid costly mistakes.

Installing and Running WordPress: MAMP

Installing WordPress on your computer gives you a perfect testing ground for experimentation, theme development, plugin testing, and website development. This course is designed for developers and users who want to install and configure WordPress locally on a Mac with MAMP, the open-source server/database/scripting language combo that sets the stage for more serious WordPress development. Author Morten Rand-Hendriksen covers the configuration options and usage scenarios to get you started working in WordPress quickly.

WordPress Ecommerce: WooCommerce

Build an online store using WordPress and the WooCommerce plugin, one of the most popular and trusted ecommerce solutions for WordPress. WooCommerce provides advanced store management for physical and digital products, and in this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to navigate the inventory, tax, and shipping settings; add products; manage sales; and customize your store’s layout. Plus, learn how to use the plugin with external services for payment processing and shipping.

Installing and Running WordPress: BitNami

Installing WordPress on your computer gives you a perfect testing ground for experimentation, theme development, plugin testing, and website development. This course is designed for developers and users who want to install and configure WordPress locally with BitNami, the multiplatform, open-source server/database/scripting language and WordPress combo that sets the stage for more serious WordPress development. Author Morten Rand-Hendriksen covers the configuration options and usage scenarios to get you started working in WordPress quickly, whether you’re on a Mac or Windows PC.

Lynda – WordPress Ecommerce: Core Concepts

Planning to use WordPress to run your online business? You need to understand your product, how to best reach your customer, and how to secure your site, and then come up with a plan to implement WordPress. Follow along with Morten-Rand Hendriksen as he guides you through the planning process for building an online store and the special considerations that come with using WordPress.

Responsive Design with Drupal

In this course, Chaz Chumley takes you through the process of transitioning a Drupal website to a responsive model that automatically tailors and sizes content for a wide range of displays, from desktops to mobile devices.

Responsive Design with Joomla!

In this course, Jen Kramer shows how to build a custom Joomla! template that automatically tailors and sizes content for a wide range of displays, from desktops to mobile devices. This course covers using Joomla! 3 with its built-in Bootstrap framework, and a start-to-finish development strategy that covers everything from converting the wireframe to HTML, to styling the headers and footers. Jen also shows how to incorporate Dreamweaver and the Firefox developer tools into your workflow, and accommodate multiple layouts and color variations in a single template.

Getting Started with Themes in WordPress

One of the best things about WordPress is how themes let you customize the way your site looks and works. Though there are lots themes available for free, you may want to create your own in order to communicate your unique online identity. In this workshop developer and trainer Joe Chellman shows you two approaches to creating a theme. You’ll learn how to create a child theme from an existing theme, using the current default theme, Twenty Twelve, as an example. You’ll also learn how take a single, static HTML file (with attendant CSS and image files) and build it into a WordPress theme with support for widgetized sidebars and custom menus.

CMS Fundamentals

In CMS Fundamentals, James Williamson defines content management systems (CMSs) and explains their role in web site development. The course demonstrates the different CMS solutions available today, including WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla; reviews CMS terminology and best practices; and shows how to develop a content management strategy. Guidelines are also included for evaluating a potential CMS, whether hosted or self-hosted, open source or proprietary, and choosing a CMS based on a specific need or focus.

Lynda – WordPress.com Essential Training

This course shows how to establish a web presence quickly and easily with WordPress.com, without having to download any software or set up web hosting. Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to sign up for an account, personalize your profile, and start posting content right away. The course also includes tutorials on everything from adding images, video, formatting, and links that make blog posts pop to installing plugins, creating custom themes, and attracting readers with social sharing, and more.

WordPress 3.0 Intermediate

You’ll start with local installs and multisites, move on to SEO and social features and then wrap up with e-commerce, custom content and more.

Drupal For Dummies

Drupal offers unparalleled flexibility for content-managed web sites, and Drupal 7 is the easiest version to use yet. This new edition teaches you the fast, fun, and easy way to get started with Drupal. Even if you have no Drupal experience, you'll quickly learn how to download and install Drupal, set up your first content-managed site, apply templates, use modules, and more.

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

A clear, hands-on guide to creating perfect content managed websites with the free Joomla! CMS

Magento PHP Developer's Guide

Get started with the flexible and powerful e-commerce framework, Magento

Joomla! Start to Finish

Joomla! offers powerful functionality and ease of configuration, making it an immensely popular open source content management system. However, far more than simply downloading and installing Joomla! is required in order to create a dynamic web site. This book walks you through the critical steps that must be taken in the planning process prior to establishing a Joomla! site. Joomla! expert Jen Kramer reviews essential questions that need to be asked of a client, discusses technical solutions to a variety of challenges, and explains how a site structure should be organized.