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Why a build a personal website?

  • stake out your personal space/name on the web
  • a stable location you control to point your social media accounts to
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What to use to build a site?

Production journal examples:

Create a New WordPress Site

blogs.evergreen.edu is Evergreen's WordPress server. You can create your own site, all you need is an evergreen email address and login.

Driving in WordPress

Writing and Managing your content


Images and linked files


Designing Your Site

Working with themes

Themes allow you to change the design of your blog at any time. Changing your theme will not affect the primary content of your site.

Suggested themes for portfolio sites:

Sidebars

Many themes support sidebar content. Often times if you don't anything to your side bar a default set of "widgets" will appear. You can change this by adding your own widgets.

Front Page and Navigation

Adding functionality to your site

  • Plugin Overview - use plugins to connect your site with a variety of web content including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc. Want to connect to a popular service that you don't see listed in the available plugins? Let Academic Computing know and we can look into adding it.

Embedding media

Things to know about your blog


Need More Help?



Still have questions or problems with WordPress, send Academic Computing a message or call the Computer Center at 360-867-6227.