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Make a Website with Wordpress

It's easy to make a webpage using Wordpress. My life as a teacher got a lot easier this year when I started putting all of my assignments on a website. Each day the kids log on, check the assignment, and then get to work. In years past I listed the assignment on the board and hoped that the students could read it or that another teacher didn't erase them while I was not in the room. I teach HTML and Dreamweaver CS5 but managing a website that is updated daily is much easier and practical using Wordpress. Keep reading for more info on how I did it. You can also check out this easy to use book that helped me: Click Here!

Teachers visit my class website and give me feedback

Wordpress is a free blogging program you can download at http://wordpress.org or check out my post below about Hosting where you can install it with a click of a button. There are many free themes and plugins available for you to customize your site to make it unique. Notice I customized mine with the Austin High maroon and white. I also made a custom banner displaying our baseball Mr. Maroo on the top right. Any teachers who are interested in learning how to make their own Wordpress site can shoot me an email and I'll try to help.

Student Blogs

These are blogs some of my students have made.

KP in Real Life: Katharine Painter's blog
MC: Mary Claire Cranford's blog
It's Life: Sarah Escobedo's blog
That was a close call: Christopher Joseph's blog

Wordpress Tutorial Videos

YouTube video tutorials for Wordpress

Need Hosting for your Wordpress Site?

Centexweb.net is a local and reliable host

Logan will take care of any needs you may have for hosting. He specializes in helping beginners who know little or nothing about how to get their websites up and going. He will walk you through all the steps. He can help you get a domain name or even offer you a free sub domain. I highly recommend Centexweb. I use them for all of my sites. He can show you how to install Wordpress automatically.

Click here to go to Centexweb.net

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These are the most popular items on Amazon.com dealing with Wordpress.

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kendrafowler Mar 13, 2012 @ 7:29 am | delete

Great way to use Wordpress in your teaching! I have recently started using wordpress to have my own blog. Some of my friends have been using Wordpress hosting ( http://instantappz.com/wordpress.php) for their blogs and seems to have a good experience with it. Great that your students too have a wonderful blog of their own!

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Funny_Beekeeper Mar 9, 2012 @ 2:50 pm | delete

Great information - thanks for sharing it, I really appreciate it!
Your lens has just been Squidliked ;)

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jwcooney Feb 29, 2012 @ 12:37 pm | delete

Wordpress is great, I have a Wordpress.com account and enjoy the features it offers for blogging!

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tradedealer Feb 29, 2012 @ 9:29 am | delete

i love wordpress too. It's very easy to create blog or even a website. a lot of free good plugins are available.

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bbrown09 Feb 29, 2012 @ 9:54 am | delete

It's the best software I've found. Thanks for stopping by.

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MarcGuberti Feb 28, 2012 @ 8:57 pm | delete

Nice lens. I have a Wordpress account and still use it everyday! I wonder what Wordpress would be like if someone upgraded it in every way possible.

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bbrown09 Feb 28, 2012 @ 10:18 pm | delete

Thanks Marc. I think they would spend their entire day upgrading :) There are so many plugins now I can't imagine anyone could use them all.

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coachguru Feb 22, 2012 @ 9:39 am | delete

I have been thinking about updating my website to Wordpress. I found the above information useful. I hope to see more content from you in the future.