1. Wordpress Lab Scientific Skills Bio200A, Fall 2012

2. outline 1.What is a website 2.Remote and local sites 3.What is wordpress 4.Login on a wordpress site 5.Create a page 6.Insert a link to another pager 7.Insert an image to the page 8.Preview a page 9.Publish a page 10. Work with menus 11. Plug-ins 12. Table plug-in 13. Form plug-in

3. What is a website? this is my first webpage I went to Isla Guadalupe I dove with the great white shark I took a lot of pictures but my best shot is HTML Language Example Hyper Text Markup Langauage

4. Local and remote site Lab computer Your computer URL www.ucsc.edu HOST ftp.ucsc.edu How this works?

5. Making a terrible website is EASY!

6. … Making a good website is also EASY 6 principles of good web design 1.Visitor-centric, clear purpose (users are scanners!) 2.Displays quickly 3.Intuitive navigation 4.Spelling, grammar, writing 5.Attractive simple design, easy to read, less is more 6.No technical problems (broken links, buggy scripts)

7. Wordpress Lab computer Your computer URL www.ucsc.edu HOST ftp.ucsc.edu How this works? Dynamic Content Management System

8. Worpress interface

9. Time to login.. http://mysite/wp-admin