Website builder introduction in small groups focusing on your websites and questions, including design, content management, shopping carts, enquiry forms, bulk emailer, web statistics and some SEO tips. 2 hours long
Well suited to new users who want to learn how to use website builder to create their own website. This new course is completed in small groups, and allows us to focus more time focusing on your website design issues.
Training Session Contents
- Creating a new trial website at www.websitebuilder.co.nz
- Use your existing login email address to associate new website with your current login and monthly account
- Ask friends to enter your email as referral for 20% commission
- Contact us to get 90 days trial to avoid deletion.
- Navigating the CMS
- Help facility, content search
- Blue buttons = web pages
- Green buttons = workspace
- Changing your website design
- Uploading your banner and logo, resize options, animations
- Changing menu style
- Publishing means saving, not going live
- Single design pages
- Adding text - SEO keywords in plain text first paragraph is most important
- Toolbar - Changing colours and styles
- Headings (Big and Medium) and bullet points
- How to upload and position photos - alignment or tables
- Linking
- Importance of saving and backups
- Best practise design notes (headings, bullet points, links, images, plain text)
- How to add a new page
- eg Gallery and change layout
- Overview of other page types
- Deleting pages - right click delete
- Shopping Pages
- Setup: overview of options available
- Adding products, photos and options.
- Payment gateways - discussion
- Changing page layout
- Enquiry forms
- Creating a custom enquiry/survey form
- The thank you page, eg payment details
- Viewing messages and downloading data to excel
- Blocking spam and validating data
- Bulk Emailer
- Optin checkbox on contact and enquiry forms
- Managing members and importing addresses
- Adding a subscribe button
- Sending an email
- Domain Name Registration
- Managing Email Settings
- Best Email Options = GMAIL
- Debugging Email Issues
- Search Engines (Quick overview only)
- Viewing web statistics - Click statistics icon on red domain name button
- Renaming Pages - Entering meta title and filenames
- General SEO tips - Opening paragraph / gallery intro, meta title
- Keyword Selector: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
- About our professional services
- Professional Website Design Options
- Professional design costs and recent portfolio work
- DIY Sites and Banner Portfolio
- CSS Menus and Dynamic Category Menus, examples...
- Questions and Answers as time permits
Venue: Auckland - Web Widgets in Grey Lynn
14/386 Richmond Rd,
Grey Lynn,
Auckland
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Our head office is in the Summerfield Villas complex. Entrance is on Richmond Rd, at street level.
Parking is free in the general area. Please park on roads or side roads, there is no parking in the complex.
When you arrive, our office is on the ground floor, but please come up the stairs to the meeting room.
Seminars at our office normally indicate small groups with plenty of time for Q&A.
What to bring?
Just a pen and paper.
This tutorial will be in seminar format, with Q&A as time permits.
The pace of the presentation is not suitable for following on your own computer, although if you wish to use a computer during the time you are welcome. We cannot provide any guarantee of wireless access nor support for individual internet connections. 3G cards suggested.
Refreshments are not usually provided, so bring a takeaway coffee if you need one.
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