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Email Newsletters and EmailBuddy
Email newsletters aren’t dead. They are far from it. Despite the popularity of Twitter and Facebook, email is still one of THE most effective ways to market your product or service. In fact, every product or brand we launch has an email newsletter of some sort attached to it. It’s part of our story because way back in 2008 we launched our entire business with a small email newsletter list. Because of this, PluginBuddy created EmailBuddy, a premium email newsletter plugin for WordPress. Because email is vital to the strategy of any good marketing campaign, we decided to provide the full webinar “Using Email Newsletters with WordPress Websites” for free to everyone so that everybody could take advantage of some email marketing strategies and provide an overview of how to use EmailBuddy.
Web design | admi | August 22, 2010 8:39 pm | Comments (1)
WordPress Developer Course
The Premier WordPress Developer Course
This is the premier developer focused course that teaches attendees how to use WordPress as the backbone and platform of all development projects. This is an advanced, intensive and comprehensive live training event geared to give developers the necessary tools to develop solid websites.
This course will take place over the place over the course of 3 days. Wednesday, August 25th (6-8pm), Friday, August 27th (6-8pm), and Saturday, August 28th (8am-Noon) (All Central Time). So what is this course and who is it for?
This course is perfect for anyone who wants to create a better WordPress website for themselves or for their clients. In order to understand how to “think outside the box” and create some creative uses for WordPress, you first need to understand the box. This WordPress Developer Course will help you understand the box so you can make WordPress work for you and not have to do all the heavily lifting of development yourself.
Prerequisites: Some of you may be concerned that this course will be over your head or you are wondering if this is the right class to take. It is helpful if you have worked with WordPress before and have used or seen how the iThemes Builder theme is used. It is also helpful if you don’t freak out when you look at CSS. Most people, regardless of their level are going to find enormous benefits of attending this WordPress Developers Course.
Cost: This course costs $297 for non-WebDesign.com members. Purchase and reserve your space today. But all WebDesign.com members can attend this full 3-day course for no extra charge. To learn more about WebDesign.com membership and benefits, check out our training page.
So what topics are going to be covered in during the 3-day event:
- Installing WordPress from SSH (or command line) to eliminate slow FTP wait
- Multisite installation
- Fully understand the wp-config.php file and all options
- Understanding security through obscurity
- Patch or fix common security issues (holes)
- Communicating security to your client
- Discover which plugins should be part of your Developer Toolbox
- Learn unconventional uses for popular plugins
- We will write our own Admin dashboard plugin, using a simple plugin framework that participants can replicate
- Understand when you should modify a current plugin or write your own
- We will be using the Builder theme
- Building a child theme from scratch
- Learn when to use style.css & when to use Style Manager
- Learn unconventional uses for Builder
- How to create a custom post type with code and also with a plugin
- Choose when you use a custom post type and when you just use categories and tags
- Assigning a layout in Builder based on custom post types
- Use the functions.php file to make your life and the life of your client easier
- Create your own set of shortcodes
- Learn when to use functions.php and when to use plugins
You can learn more about this live training webinar and additional webinars WebDesign.com offers at our events page. If you want to have a live calendar feed of all WebDesign.com webinars, download the WebDesign.com ICAL file.
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Are you ready for some football… or brand new live show?
Yes, the American Football season is just around the corner, and WebDesign.com has a new show that is happening this week along with some great live training webinars you won’t want to miss.
The current weather here in Washington DC is considered a CODE RED. The heat and humidity have combined to make it a miserable mess when you walk outside. And to make matters worse, a fast moving and powerful storm caused so much damage that it caused my firestation to move to a “Condition #2″, which caused me to head down to the station for some duty time. This is the reason why you are receiving this update just a tad late today. (Also due to the fact that the before mentioned storm knocked out our power for quite a while.)
I wanted to take a moment before this week begins to highlight some upcoming webinars we have planned here at WebDesign.com and also let everyone know of a brand new event taking place this week. Yes, you are hearing this before anyone else because you have subscribed to this email update.
First, several webinars you should have on your calendar:
On Wednesday, July 28th, from 11am – Noon (Central Time), I’ll be hosting a free webinar called”WordPress 3.0 – Are you still on the fence?”. WordPress 3.0 has been out for a month. Are you still on the fence? Do you want someone to show you step-by-step the different and new areas of WordPress 3.0 so that you will feel comfortable upgrading your site? Then this is the perfect webinar for you. Join us for just an hour and you’ll be ready to hit that Upgrade button.
Reserve your seat: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/725320714
Then on Saturday, July 31st, from 8am-Noon (Central Time), I’ve got a PREMIUM webinar called”Cracking the Gravity Forms Code”. Gravity Forms is not just a simple form creation plugin, it is powerful enough to be so much more. Over the course of this live webinar, participants will learn how to make Gravity Forms work for them to add stunning new functionality to WordPress sites. If you are serious about providing the best quality to your clients, come learn why Gravity Forms is a must install plugin for developers. The cost of this premium class is $79.00. Reserve your seat today! Remember that allWebDesign.com members can attend this class for free as part of their membership. Members can find their free member’s registration link once they login.
Second, a brand new event has been added to the calendar for this week:
On Thursday, July 29th, from 1pm-2pm (Central Time), I’ll be hosting the first ever “Course Unveiling Party”. During this fun live webinar I’ll be revealing all the new courses for the month of September. We’ve got some great topics ranging from developer focused, designer focused, freelancing/business focused and more.
Reserve your seat: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/332242467
Third, meet the Professor in September:
On September 11, 2010, WordCamp MidAtlantic will be hosting their event at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. This is a great time to get involved in the greater WordPress community as well as meet me, Benjamin Bradley. If you’re planning on heading to WordCamp MidAtlantic or have any questions, just email me and I’ll see if I can help answer them. For more information and to register for WordCamp MidAtlantic: http://wordcampmidatlantic.com/
Finally, I would never lose an opportunity to pass out a discount:
Which is what I sent to people who are on the WebDesign.com email list. If you want great discounts and opportunities for discounts, you need to be signed up for our email list. To sign up and start receiving upcoming event alerts and great discounts head over here and insert your email in the form on the left.
Till next time… the Professor (Benjamin) is out!
Web design | admi | July 27, 2010 10:22 am | Comments (0)
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