In this course you’ll learn how to manage and maintain a responsive WordPress website. Jesse Friedman will teach you about responsive web design best practices, technology and how to design dynamic and responsive WordPress sites using pre-made themes. You’ll also learn how to implement tools and strategies that will give you and your clients greater control over content. Jesse Friedman has specific examples to show you how to maintain responsive WordPress themes long after they are deployed and also dive into how he used these tools and strategies to create dynamic, real-world web environments that respond to the user’s device and landscape. You’ll walk away from this online course with actionable tools you can use immediately!
This course builds on Friedman’s first class, 28 Days to Your First WordPress Site. Previous WordPress experience and a good understanding of HTML, CSS and some JavaScript are required.
Jesse Friedman is an experienced Web Developer, Professor at Johnson & Wales University and the Director of Web Development for Neal Advertising. When Jesse isn’t working he’s enjoying life with his family in Rhode Island. Look for Jesse’s book on WordPress coming out Aug 2012 by New Riders under their “Voices that Matter” series.
Workshop Length:
4 weeks
Tuition:
$199 ($179 for VIP)
Recommended Materials:
- The Web Designers Handbook by Patrick McNeil
- 21 Days to Your First WordPress Blog by Jesse Friedman
Start Date:
Objectives:
- Learn the best practices in responsive web design
- Learn how to manage and maintain responsive WordPress themes
- Master the techniques for understanding your mobile user and their experience
- Learn how to customize a users experience through functional and content, real time modifications
- Web designers with some WordPress experience
- Marketing professionals
- Entrepreneurs
Outline:
- Introduction
- Basic Requirements
- In This Course
- Video: Responsive Web Design is No Longer a Choice
- Video: Best Practices in Responsive Web Design and WordPress
- Menus
- Sidebars
- Media, Comments and More
- Choosing a Theme and Getting Started as a Developer
- Assignment
- Quiz
- Video: WordPress Challenges
- Content
- Generated Classes
- Video: Embedding Video
- Why Embed Video?
- Video: Navigation
- Hard and Soft Cropping
- Assignment
- Quiz
- Video: Advanced Featured Images
- Video: WP Mobile Detect
- Assignment
- Quiz
- Video: Preventing Non-User-Initiated Downloads
- Video: Responsive Isn’t Just for Mobile
- Easter Eggs
- Conclusion
- Assignment
- Quiz