The topics we have covered in this videos includes:

• Blogs, Posts and RSS Feeds
• File Management and File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• Website Statistics and Google Analytics
• Backing up your website
• Features of Elegant Themes Premium Themes
• Social media and commenting

This video from Channel 10 in 2009 explains how three popular bloggers make a lot of money by working from home.

Read more about our WordPress Training Course and join in to take advantage of our current prices and LIFETIME student access

The best part of this course is that it entitles you to the EzyLearn LIFETIME membership feature, so when we update it with new content about marketing your website you can access the new information for no extra cost. For more information and to enrol, visit our WordPress course website.

What’s included in our WordPress Online Course (you can click these links if you are an existing student):

• Video 1: The WordPress Website Introduction Resource
• Video 2: Pages and Posts Resource
• Video 3: Administration Dashboard Resource
• Video 4: Page Information Resource
• Video 5: Modifying Pages Resource
• Video 6: Structuring Pages Resource
• Video 7: Page Order Resource
• Video 8: Hyperlinks Resource
• Video 9: Inserting Paypal Button code Resource
• Video 10: Insert and Manage Images Resource
• Video 11: Post Categories Resource
• Video 12: Post tags Resource

Administration Privileges and Settings

• 902-1 WordPress – Understanding Administrator priveleges Resource
• 902-2 WordPress – General Settings including Page titles Resource
• 902-3 WordPress – Writing and Reading Settings – including Home page formatting Resource
• 902-4 WordPress – Writing and Reading Settings – Setting Home and Blog Pages Resource
• 902-5 WordPress – Reading Settings – Number of Posts and RSS Feed intro Resource
• 902-6 WordPress – Permalinks, page names and Search Engine Optimisation Resource
• 902-7 WordPress – Managing Users, modifying roles and creating new users Resource
• 902-8 WordPress – Deleting Users and allocating links and posts Resource
• 902-9 WordPress – Introduction to Plugins – download WPtouch for iPads and iPhones Resource
• 902-10 WordPress – Working with Premium Plugins like GravityForms Resource

Design options and Themes

• 903-1 WordPress Design – Changing the layout completely with different Themes Resource
• 903-2 WordPress Design – Finding the best theme and downloading it Resource
• 903-3 WordPress Design – Installing and activating a theme Resource
• 903-4 WordPress Design – Theme appearance options are specific to the theme Resource
• 903-5 WordPress Design – Background and Header appearance for default WordPress theme Resource
• 903-6 WordPress Design – Uploading your own background image Resource
• 903-7 WordPress Design – Working with widgets and the sidebar Resource
• 903-8 WordPress Design – Widgets in more detail – tag cloud, text, meta Resource
• 903-9 WordPress Design – Create alternate menus and apply them to your theme Resource
• 903-10 WordPress Design – Customising menus with external links and categories Resource
• 903-11 WordPress Design – Advanced Theme Appearance Options Resource
• 903-12 WordPress Design – Different Widgets for different Themes Resource
• 903-13 WordPress Design – Widgets and RSS newsfeeds Resource

Website Hosting Control Panel – email

• 60X 1 Website Hosting – Control Panel Resource
• 60X 2 Website Hosting – Create an Email Account Resource
• 60X 3 Website Hosting – Setting up the Email Account on your computer Resource
• 60X 4 Website Hosting – Using your email address with webmail Resource
• 60X 5 Website Hosting – Email Catch-all, Forwarder and AutoResponders Resource
• 60X 6 Website Hosting – Website Statistics and logs Resource

Blogs, Posts and RSS Feeds

Kelli has a WordPress website hosted with 123ezy and we are building our WordPress and Webmaster Course around her growing internet presence. To start with we have created some elementary training videos about the navigation around the WordPress themes and what different parts of the website are called. We’re learning about themes, header images, menus and widget just to get started. As we progress we’ll be talking about Pages vs Posts, tags and categories, working with images, Search Engine Optimisation and much more.

We’ve included our Introduction to WordPress video below so if you are reading this on your phone, click on the heading to get to our Blog page where you can watch the full video.

The most significant aspects of website design are:

• The template (or theme) that’s used including colour scheme, branding and navigation
• The  images and copy (text) used to fill the site
• Promoting and marketing the website

Modern day Content Management Systems like WordPress, Joomla and even older ones like Drupal make everything much easier and here’s why:

• Thousands of designers create templates that you can purchase for $20 to $300
• Once a template or theme is designed and setup the content management is the same (just like using Microsoft Word)
• Writing articles, creating extra pages and adding to your navigation becomes as easy as selecting a check box and picking a category.

So is it really something that you could do?

wordpress themes included in Webmaster course

Have you heard about WordPress, Google, Facebook and Twitter? Can you use your computer to access your email, do internet banking and accessing other online services? Have you heard about or used PayPal? If you have, then you are at least familiar with some of the tools used by a modern webmaster. Combining these new online marketing tools and WordPress CMS driven websites you can get busy and start creating.

The Internet, smart phones, cloud computing and VoIP are making the world a smaller place and allows people to work from home but still remain digitally connected. There has been a significant shift towards remote contracting (virtual assistants) and the concept of mums working from home is now commonplace.

If you want to come on the Webmaster journey with EzyLearn we have the WebMasters course. It’s a step-by-step system of setting up, creating content and images, building the contents and then promoting your own business using all the tools we’ve mentioned in this blog post. Best of all you’ll have an internet guru educating and coaching you each step of the way until your website is complete so not only will you have your own website and tools to promote it, but you’ll have the skills to promote yourself to other businesses and help them with their website management.

What’s so good about all this new technology that is available? It means you can sign up for affiliate accounts and start earning money from referring good quality website to people you know or are connected to. Here’s a link to a post we wrote earlier this year which explains a bit about how affiliate marketing works.

We are trialling a new affiliate service for our online MYOB course and the reward is $25 for a successful sale from your recommendation. Don’t worry the affiliate management system keeps track of your referrals. Here’s a link to the affiliate website.

is your internet fast enough for a voip phone system

We’ve updated our telephone system to the latest in Cisco IP phones and want to share the information with you because we think it’s ground breaking. We use our Broadband Internet connection to make and receive all our calls and that throws out the window the old concept of paying Telstra almost $40 per month just to have a telephone number. I was only just explaining to a friend today how the VoIP phone system from virion works and I’ll try to explain it again in this blog post.

Your Broadband Internet connection delivers the voice to your phones and takes it away to the people you call so this link is critical in the quality of your voip phone system. The best way of testing the quality of your broadband internet connection to run a speed test and see how fast your upload speeds are. Yes, I did say upload speeds. Most people want fast download speeds to download videos, emails and attachments, but with a voip phone system you need to have a broadband connection with good upload speeds.

In this diagram the upload speed is 0.81Mb/s (810Kbps) and the best quality VoIP phone system requires 87.2Kbps, so,theoretically 10 people in your office could be having phone conversations with your VoIP phone system using your broadband internet. But what if someone is sending an email with a huge attachment? I’ll keep you up-to-date with our VoIP experience as we use it.

If you want to test a business grade VoIP phone system and VoIP service take advantage of virion’s Instant Trial.

EzyLearn offers the 123ezy website builder as part of a website hosting package and it makes it so simple to add (and change) words to the heading and description of each page within your website. Visit the 123ezy website for more information or take a look at a website that he been created using the SiteBuilder to see how it works.

An article was written in BRW which highlights the challenges and potential future of this model of software delivery: http://bit.ly/9SNbam and most interesting of all is that Craig Winkler, co-founder of MYOB, which was taken over early 2009 by private equity, is now a major shareholder after an injection of $18M.

For us as computer software users and you as EzyLearn customers MYOB is still the market leader in Australia and you can do our online course for $199 with 12 months access and unlimited repeats (gratuitous plug). The future is focussed on making it possible to work together more effortlessly with our accounting datafile and take advantage of fantastic data centres that store our information securely, provide data security and a first grade backup service.

I wholely embrave cloud computing as I delve into cloud computing for telephony (www.cloudpbx.com.au has already been very succesful for our business), as a CRM (currently looking into www.salesforce.com as a means to keep track of clients and correspondence), and for email communications (using Gmail and Google apps). Stay tuned for feedback and comments about my experiences.