2 Day Course Dates: Saturday 24th + Sunday 25th March 2012 Times: 10.30am to 4.30pm Price: £175.00 Instructor: Pierre Vella Internet publishing can appear to be rather daunting, but in fact is not difficult at all. There is very little you require to build a website and everything you need is available free on the Internet. In other words, you don't need to spend huge sums of money purchasing expensive software packages, programming manuals or web server space. You just need to know where to start. On this course you will learn the fundamentals of setting up a website using both online web applications, such as blogger, and free open-source web applications that are installed on servers, such as wordpress. In both cases content creation, management and publication is done online and in real time. Working with a variety of media such as text, video, audio, photos and podcasts, you will learn how to create media rich websites that are both visually appealing, instantly searchable and easy to manage. Course Outline Day 1 will focus on using Blogger () an online 'blogging' platform and will cover in detail how to: * create a blog using * create an on-line gallery using * tagging images in Flickr * make rss and xml feeds * create a podcast using odeo and podbean * add videos and audio to your blog * add google analytics code to track your sites * editing templates to define the look of your blog * using widgets to extend the functionality of your blog * tagging your bookmarks in and magnolia Day 2 will concentrate on installing and using Wordpress ( ) and will cover in detail: * Downloading the wordpress software * Installation with MAMP (a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic web sites on servers) * Configuring your wordpress site * Layout and site presentation with Themes * Template Code and how they work * Content creation with posts and pages * Using WordPress Plugins (extensions for the WordPress software that can extend the funcionality of the Software) * Populating your wordpress site with Content (text, video, audio, podcasts, images and slideshows) General Each student has their own workstation for the practical parts of the course and can discuss any specific areas of interest they may have towards the end of the day with the tutor.