The World of Web Publishing - WordPress 101

Bart Reynolds

Thank you, Christine. I’m very pleased that I attended your workshop. Very informative and easy to understand. I learned quite a bit and all of it is very simple to implement. Well done! Again, thank you -

Chik

Thanks so much Christine!  As a total novice in web development, who just launched her first website, I found the material easy to follow and WordPress absolutely seems like the way to go.  Can’t wait until I can get transitioned over.

Rachel

Christine, I just attended this workshop and learned so much that I want to encourage everyone to attend. Regardless of how much or how little you all know about internet, blogs, websites,etc… don’t miss this opportunity to spend time with Christine. She explains it all so clearly and makes it look easy!

Karen Floyd

Hi Christine! Wow, at the risk of hyperbole, my life has been getting better and better since I first attended your WordPress workshop a few weeks ago.

Granted, I just lived through a heinous move out of my hold place so ANYthing’s got to be better after that, haha, but your kindly introduction to WordPress as “something much more than a blog” (since I don’t consider myself a writer has really sparked something now.

First off, your showing us that the ability to post images as a sort of picture-blog really just got me over my hangups about writing – haha! And since I have this archive of hundreds of scanned drawings and characters moldering away in storage, suddenly you have made them relevant, given them a new home where they can be seen.

In the olden days of yore (1997! haha!) it would have been such a major undertaking to design and code a page for these sketches, and as rough works in progress (while interesting, at least to me the level of labor to get them posted was prohibitive. But now, suddenly I see how this can work, how this makes such a smooth pathway for the content to come out of the cobwebs. Thank you for that…otherwise they would’ve been stuck away for years, like the Ark in the Indiana Jones movie. (And even if the sketches are terrible, at least this gives me an excuse to stare that straight in the face

So thanks to you, this idea of copyright registering my hundreds of images prior to publishing them (more cost effective to register with the U.S. Copyright Office as a group of unpublished works for a single fee, rather than registering each and every individual published piece later) and then releasing them on WordPress image blog – releasing a new sketch or more each day – like blowing a dandelion into the wind! – seems wonderfully appealing.

Shaking loose some old calcified ideas for sure…now Christine’s introduction to WordPress is accidental therapy too in addition to a play space

And the best part happened today. I am up for consideration for a project bid with a new client and usually I would email them attachments of my design sketches. Since it’s going to a committee and they’re traveling from different locations to review this work and their budgets, the idea of posting it into a nice already-prepared WordPress design theme to have the committee view from various locations to make their decisions seemed like a fun little experiment to try this morning.

Guess what: It WORKED. They LOVED the presentation (I credit Christine and WP!). Somehow my drawings on the backs of scrap paper (still getting settled after this move, I tell ya!) went from just that tsuddenyl o a nicely professionally presented WordPress page with notations on the sketches, why certain choices were made with this character or that, and at the end a SlideShare.net PDF file was added on to end of the WordPress posts at the bottom to show them a past project I’d done that demonstrated the quality of finish they can expect later (since they’re looking at my rough drawings for the first time and may not know that I actually can finish things professionally too, not just pencil scribbles, haha!) Normally I would have been too shy to attach the other project to an email for fear of looking too ambitious , but here it is on that page and they can take it or leave it but at least it’s available to them.

Basically I’m not here to blab about my work (and I’m sorry that I have in all this enthusiasm – aag!) but I’m here to say that Christine’s generously and gently supportive introduction has really started something rumbling for me in the right direction. THANK YOU.

I didn’t see this one coming, back when I thought I was just going to make a “blog” like everyone else, and get with it after a few years languishing outside of design .

Something in the special yet subtle way Christine’s presented it is now sparking something exhilarating and this idea that a WordPress page can be a creative play space (private and not publicly viewable even!) or an online scrapbook of pictures and mp3 files and videos and words…something where we can memorialize our interests and passions all in one place.

There is something really special about this multimedia blank canvas that holds promise for so much more, and it took Christine’s special wisdom and enthusiasm to get me there.

THANK YOU, Christine! Sorry for all the gushing!

That said, this workshop today appears to be full to the gills. Congratulations!!! And if anyone’s planning on not making it on short notice (I’m about 15 minutes away), I would be very grateful for a direct email to me at michiko @ michiko.com to let me know, in the hopes that I may be able to join and learn more to the next level. Thank you either way!

Thank you again for the inspiration, and I hope those of you attending today get to enjoy the potential of this too – it’s still all so new and exciting and I’d love to see where this can lead for each of us!

Best, Michiko

Thank you so much for offering this workshop. I now feel better about creating my website and being able to interact with clients and potential clients.

Ramona Lynne

This was so informative and I am ready to roll with a new wordpress site as soon as I can some up with a great business name.

Sherri Hensen

Ok Jesse, guess I’ll make the comment about Christine “bringing the house down.” Christine, you did a fab job, thanks so much. Wish I could have stayed after and chatted with you. Maybe next time.

Nancy LeMont

Diana Bourgeois

Christine, your workshop was awesome and the information you shared was over-the-top!

Lamar

Thanks again for a very informative and motivating event. I am much more encouraged to switch over to the latest WordPress version. It’s infinitely more flexible and dynamic. I look forward to NINGing next.

Myrna Hoffman

I was so jazzed after taking your workshop today Christine that I blew off the whole entire rest of my day so I could go home and apply all that I learned to my blog. What I quickly learned is that you made it look so easy and I continued to struggle. What’s up with that? I’ll be calling you when I get back from vacation in a week.

BjR

Christine, I’ve been to a bunch of Biznik events and your event this morning was one of the best. It seemed that everyone left excited, enthusiastic, and even empowered by what you covered in 90 minutes (OK, 120 minutes because we couldn’t stop talking).  And your offer to the Biznik community is incredible.

Suzanne Melton

Many thanks, Christine, for your wonderful presentation today. I certainly learned a lot about what WordPress is capable of doing for small businesses that need websites and blogs. I was also impressed with your overall knowledge of WordPress and social media. Would you consider doing an event based around Ning in the future?

Thanks again,

Annika deGroot

First CRM workshop I’ve seen on Biznik – if you are interested in bringing this up to Bellingham, I’ll find you a venue! Looking forward to another date where I can attend, since I have not seen Maximizer for a long time – but am knowledgable about Salesforce.com and others.

Lori

I loved the CRM event – thanks for hosting it. Great refresher on all the things a good CRM program can do and inspired me to fire up my Maximizer program and put it to work!

Mavis Lamb