Building Websites Using Wordpress 1

I have been doing the video training course Building Websites Using Wordpress by Infinite Skills at

http://safaribooksonline.com and thought I would do a series of posts on what I learn. The course is split into 12 parts and I have just done the first 2. The course contains just under 9 hours of video. When designing a website you will typically do the artistic and text part in Adobe Illustrator which is what this part looks at then will do the photo elements in Photoshop and then construct everything in Wordpress. You can use the eyedropper tool to match the colours up. When you are constructing it you will usually make it opaque to correctly line everything up. Some tricks are you can use control and r to activate the rulers and when you set the rulers you make sure they aren't locked and then when they are in place lock them. Your toolbars are found under the windows command menu. You will often select what you are working with and choose the properties toolbar. You can group items so they become 1 with the shortcut control and g. You can duplicate which saves you having to redraw it using control and d or alt and drag. One trick if you are doing something like a logo and want it to look fancy is to let it overlap the other elements on the page slightly. Usually you will draw the elements so they are roughly in the right place then highlight them and using the properties toolbar enter round numbers in the x and y axis to position them and enter rounded numbers for how big each box has to be. You can do a search for lorem ipsum in google and copy and paste this special text into the placeholder if you doing something like a template and haven't any ready text. In Illustrator you will see a red mark to indicate a box has too much text in it which is what you want in the case of placeholder text as any gaps are unslightly. What I've done of this course is great and easy to understand also I'd suggest if you are doing the course rather than buy it on dvd rom consider joining Safari Books Online as they have hundreds of courses and online books that you just pay a flat charge for and then you can use it as much as you like.