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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

What to use to build a site?

What is WordPress? How is blogs.evergreen.edu different from wordpress.com different from wordpress.org?
Alternatives include Squarespace, Tumblr and Wix

Audio portfolio examples:

Create a WordPress Site at Evergreen

As an Evergreen student, you have access to create a site at blogs.evergreen.edu and get support. This is a great opportunity to explore the waters of creating your own website in preparation for managing your own after graduation.

To get started check out the WordPress Tutorial

Embedding media

Adding sound files using soundcloud

What about after graduation?

What happens to my blog when I graduate?

Getting your own website

Securing your own custom domain name

Every website has a unique web address. Best practices for choosing a custom domain name:

short, descriptive, easily communicated, not easily confused with other websites
first and last name .com
domain registration happens via a domain registrar. Often times web hosts will also offer domain registration. Coupling domain registration and web hosting is the easiest way to manage as each will have to be renewed annually.

Web Hosting and Editing Platforms

Web hosts are the folks who host your website on their internet connected web servers. They can host simple html files but now, more often they additionally host web editing platforms such as WordPress, Wix or Squarespace. Before you commit to a web host:

Create a trial account and make sure it feels easy to use and meets all of your site's requirements.
Add up all of the recurring costs (domain + web hosting)
some platforms are Open Source such as WordPress which means if you don't like your web host you can always move your code to another server
some platforms are proprietary such as Squarespace - web sites built here will have limited export functionality

Need More Help?

WordPress Tutorial - for a step-by-step tutorial to get you started
FAQs - common questions about using WordPress at Evergreen
All WordPress articles

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

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-===Create a New WordPress Site at Evergreen===
+===Create a WordPress Site at Evergreen===
 As an Evergreen student, you have access to create a site at blogs.evergreen.edu and get support. This is a great opportunity to explore the waters of creating your own website in preparation for managing your own after graduation.
-[http://blogs.evergreen.edu blogs.evergreen.edu] is Evergreen's WordPress server. You can create your own site, all you need is an [[Getting Started with Email|evergreen email address]] and [[Evergreen Login - Getting Started|login]].
-*'''[[Create New Site - First Time in WordPress|Create your first site]]''' if you are new to blogs.evergreen.edu.
-* Learn how to '''[[Create Additional Sites - WordPress | create additional sites]]''' if you already have a site at blogs.evergreen.edu.
-===Writing and Managing your content===
+'''To get started check out the [[WordPress Tutorial]]'''
-*[[Dashboard Overview]]
-*[[Get Published - Pages and Posts]]
-*[[Categories and Tags]]
-===Images and linked files===
-*'''[[Images in Wordpress|Insert an image]]'''
-*'''[[Attach a file to a WordPress post or page|Link to a file]]'''
-===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.
-* '''[[About Themes - WordPress|Choose a theme]]'''
-* Customize your header image - some themes allow for you to add your own header image '''Appearance > Header Image''' (may only appear if your chosen theme supports custom header images)
-*'''[[Custom CSS|Make additional changes to your theme]]''' (advanced)
 ====Suggested themes for portfolio sites:====
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 *[http://demo.graphpaperpress.com/snaps/ Snaps]
 * Wilson
-====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.
-*'''[[Widgets]]''' - add additional features to your sidebar
-*'''[[Links -WordPress |Add external links]]''' to your sidebar
-====Front Page and Navigation====
-*'''[[Front page of WordPress Site|Change what your front page displays]]''' if you'd prefer a static pages instead of your latest posts (optional).
-*'''[[Custom Menus]]''' - allow you to modify the navigation for your site
-** not all themes support custom menus
-===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====
-*[[Image Galleries - WordPress|Image Galleries]]
-*[[Video Embed - Wordpress|Video]]
-*[[Embed Audio - WordPress|Audio]]
 *[[Soundcloud - WordPress| Adding sound files using soundcloud]]