SECTION 5.0 HELPFUL RESOURCES
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WordPress.com
- WordPress.com: Free sites hosted at wordpress.com
- WordPress.com Support
- WordPress.com Forums
WordPress.org
- WordPress.org: Home of WordPress
- WordPress.tv: WordPress and WordCamp Videos
- WordPress Codex: WordPress documentation and help
- WordPress FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
- WordPress Forums
- WordPress Themes
- WordPress Plugins
- WordPress Codex: Roles_and_Capabilities
- WordPress Codex: Using Permalinks
- WordPress Codex: Pages
- WordPress Codex: Posts
- WordPress Codex: Plugins
- WordPress Codex: Themes
- WordPress Codex: Widgets
- WordPress Codex: Using Images
- WordPress Codex: Links Manager
- WordPress Codex: Discussions Screen
- Pagelines (Premium Themes, including Platform Pro used for this site)
- WPMU (Premium Themes, Plugins, and Multisite Support)
WordPress-Centric Sites
Coding and Programming
- W3C (World Wide Web Consortium): HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Tutorial
- PHP Scripting Language
- CSS3 Code Generator
- Codestyle.org Font Stack Builder, Web Font Survey and more
Lynda.com Video Tutorials
7-day Free Trial!
- Website Design Fundamentals (James Williamson)
- Typography for Web Designers (Laura Franz)
- WordPress 3 Essential Training (Morten Rand-Hendricksen)
- WordPress 3 Child Themes (Morten Rand-Hendricksen)
- Improving SEO Using Accessibility Techniques (Morten Rand-Hendricksen)
- Start with a Theme: Photography Portfolio in WordPress (Morten Rand-Hendricksen)
- Create an Online Portfolio with WordPress (Morten Rand-Hendricksen)
- WordPress 3 Creating and Editing Custom Themes (Chris Coyler)
- WordPress 3 Developing Secure Sites (Jeff Starr)
- Creating and Managing a Blog Network with WordPress (Justin Seeley)
- XHTML and HTML Essential Training (Bill Weinman)
- Creating a CSS Style Guide: Hands-On Training (Laurie Burress)
- CSS Fundamentals (James Williamson)
- CSS Core Concepts (James Williamson)
- Dreamweaver Essential Training (James Williamson)
- Search Engine Optimization Getting Started (Jill Whalen)
- Analyzing Your Website to Improve Search Engine Optimization (Peter Kent)
- YouTube Essential Training (Jason Osder)
- Social Media Marketing with Facebook and Twitter (Anne-Marie Concepcion)
- @amarie (Anne-Marie’s Twitter)
- Social Media Marketing on Facebook (Anne-Marie’s page)
- Mashable.com | Social Media
- All Facebook (The Unofficial Facebook Resource)
- All Twitter (The Unofficial Twitter Resource)
- Inside Facebook
- Hubspot Free Webinars
Design, Typography, Fonts and Colors
- DesignIsPhilosophy.com (Morten Rand-Hendriksen)
- ThinkingWithType.com
- NiceWebType.com
- GoodWebFonts.com
- DesigningWithType.com
- AListApart.com
- ILoveTypography.com
- Subtraction.com
- TrentWalton.com
- DesignObserver.com
- JessicaHische.is
- JonTangerine.com
- MinistryOfType.co.uk
- FontSquirrel
- MyFonts
- DaFont
- Google Web Fonts
- Adobe Kuler (color selector, palette creator)
- Colorzilla.com Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
- Hexadecimal to RGB Converter
- HTML Colors
- Hues Hub
- Hex Hub (color codes for named colors)
Additional Capability-Extending Software
- Camtasia Studio (screen capture recording for PC)
- Camtasia for Mac
- Audacity (free audio editing); LAME MP3 encoder (to export Audacity projects to MP3)
- Adobe Photoshop (image editing)
- Adobe Photoshop Elements (image editing)
- GIMP (free image editing, “GNU Image Manipulation Program”)
- Adobe Premiere Elements (video editing)
- Text Wrangler (free Mac text editor)
- Notepad ++ (free Windows text editor)
- Aptana Studio 3 (text editor and code assistant)
- Free FTP (Coffee Cup Software, Windows)
- Filezilla FTP (Windows and Mac)
- Fire FTP (plugin for Firefox)
Local WordPress Environments (virtual servers)
- Bitnami
- WAMP Server (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- MAMP (Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
