Creating a Local Association Website

A quick video demo on how to create a local association website using WordPress.com

Great new contact forms with wordpress

If you haven’t seen, WordPress has a great new contact form feature built into the tool bar.  Check out all the details here: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/contact-form-2-0/

Adding a Link to a Page or Post

This page is designed to help you add links to your posts or pages. If you want to create a lists of links to your favorite blogs or sites in your sidebar, please visit the Links Menu (Blogroll) support page.

There are a couple of ways to add links to your posts or pages. You can use either the Visual, or HTML editors to create them so we’re going to outline both methods here.

Adding a Widget to the Sidebar

Widget is a fancy word for tools or content that you can add, arrange, and remove from the sidebars of your blog. Widgets make it easy to customize the content of your blog sidebar.

Take a look at this short video on how to add a widget to your  WordPress website.

one-minute-widgets

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Creating and Editing Pages

Take a look at this short video on how to create and edit pages on your WordPress website.

Creating an “About Me” (or any other static) page

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Organize your Post by Categories

Take a look at this short video on how to organize your post by categories on your WordPress website.

Adding Categories and Tags to your posts

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Categories vs. Tags

Take a look at this short video on how to add a post to your WordPress website.

Adding and deleting categories

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Find out more here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/dashboard/

Your WordPress Dashboard

Take a look at this short video on how to add a post to your WordPress website.

Introduction to the WordPress.com dashboard

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Find out more here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/dashboard/

How to add a new post to your site

Take a look at this short video on how to add a post to your WordPress website.

Writing and Publishing a Post

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Find out more here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/

Does your IEA local association need a website?

IEA and  WordPress are teaming up to help you create a great local association website.  You can get a blog/website started in less time than it takes you to read this sentence. All you need is an email address. You’ll get your own WordPress.com address (like you.wordpress.com), a selection WordPress.com free storage of great free and customizable designs for your blog (we call them themes), 3 gigabytes of file storage (that’s about 2,500 pictures!) and all the other great features listed here.

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