Last weekend I was lucky enough to teach how to build a website using WordPress. The afternoon went very quickly but over the course of the 2 and half hours, we set up a website for our Internet Marketing mastermind group. Of course, the website needed a bit of tweaking and I added some content and tidied that up later in the evening. I am sure the website will evolve a bit more over time!
The interesting thing about the meeting was the amount of things that went wrong. Well not wrong exactly but not exactly right either. It’s amazing though what things can and did go wrong despite having an earlier practise run. For a start, the projector didn’t want to show what was on my screen. Funnily enough I had done a practice run earlier with great success but repeating what I did before did not work. Fortunately, we got the everything up an running.
Secondly, the theme I choose looked pretty ordinary and we didn’t really have the time to go backand look for a new one. Not that it mattered – the purpose was really to demonstrate how to change the appearance of the site and I think we achieved that.
Later, I went to demonstrate how to install plug-ins. It was like Murphy’s Law – the plugin I choose did not work as the server it linked to was down! This had never happened before so was totally unexpected. In any case, the day was a success and we will be holding more of these meetings after Christmas.
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