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
- 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)
Ndividuation Nspiration
Your perception of the world is … really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don’t really see light or sound. You perceive it because your model says this is how the world is, and those patterns invoke the model. It’s hard to believe, but it really is true.
— Jeff HawkinsWordPress Tutorial Sections
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