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Streamline your workflows and cut time spent on document creation by taking advantage of building blocks and macros in Microsoft Word. Author Mariann Siegert illustrates how to create, store, and effortlessly reuse pieces of document information such as boilerplate text, graphics, tables, shapes, fields, and content controls. The course also explains how to record macros to capture the steps in your workflow and run them with a single click. The course includes five real-world projects and introduces Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the language on which Word macros are based.

In Word for Mac 2011 Essential Training, author Maria Langer shows how to create, format, and print a wide variety of documents in Microsoft Word 2011. The course covers building outlines, formatting text and pages, working with headers and footers, using themes and styles, adding multimedia, and more. It also shows how to customize and automate Word 2011, including how to record macros. Exercise files accompany the course.

Learn how to create, format, and print a wide variety of documents in Microsoft Word for Mac 2016. Author David Rivers covers creating new documents from templates and scratch, formatting text and pages, working with headers and footers, using themes and styles, adding multimedia, and more. He'll also show how to share documents with others and speed up your workflow with macros.

Learn how to create electronic forms that are visually pleasing and easy to navigate with Word for Mac 2016. This course covers designing a form; capturing data effectively with form controls such as dropdown lists, date pickers, and check boxes; and testing, protecting, and distributing forms. Gini Courter also shows how to accelerate form creation with free Microsoft.com templates and customize and share templates with colleagues.

If you build a website with WordPress, build it with accessibility in mind. Making your content, themes, navigation, and other site features accessible helps everyone—including visitors who want to find your site through search engine results.

This course, merging WordPress coding with accessible web design techniques, helps you make sure your website meets modern accessibility standards. You'll learn how to use the power of WordPress to quickly build a beautiful and accessible website that can be used by people with different types of abilities. Author Joe Dolson provides a broad introduction to accessibility and then focuses on practical steps to make sure your WordPress themes, plugins, and content are accessible and usable to all.

If you already have the Genesis Framework, you can create a new Genesis child theme from scratch using nothing more than a code editor. This course shows you how. Carrie Dils covers the basics of child themes—lessons you can apply to your own starter theme—as well as tips to make existing theme customizations that much easier. She shows how to create the PHP and CSS files necessary to structure, activate, and style your theme, and how to add demo content and make the theme responsive on different screen sizes with media queries. She also includes tips on prepping your theme for a real-world deploy. At the end of the course, you'll have a deeper understanding of the Genesis Framework and child themes, and the skills to develop richer WordPress sites.

Do you want to build a website for your volunteer group, club, church, or other community organization? DIY (do it yourself) with WordPress and Genesis, the WordPress theme framework. In this course, Carrie Dils shows how to create a website complete with an events calendar, forums for discussions, and contact and submission forms. Carrie walks through every step in the process: from site planning and finding the right plugins, to installing a new child theme and customizing the appearance of your site to make it match your community. She also offers tips for prepping and sharing your site with the world.

Find more courses in this series in our WordPress DIY playlist.

Build a website for your independent business in the same spirit you run it. DIY (do it yourself) with WordPress and Genesis, the WordPress theme framework. In this course, Carrie Dils shows how to create a website complete with features such as a contact form, social media sharing buttons, and even recipes. She walks through every step in the process: from site planning and finding the right plugins, to installing a new child theme and customizing the appearance of your site to make it match your brand. She also offers tips for prepping and sharing your site with the world.

Find more courses in this series in our WordPress DIY playlist.

Build a great website for your restaurant with WordPress and Genesis. You don't need a developer; learn to do it yourself (DIY) in these short, project-focused lessons from expert Carrie Dils. Carrie walks through every step in the process: from site planning and finding the right theme to using plugins to display menus and take reservations online. Using these tips, you'll be able to create a stylish, feature-rich website for your restaurant with very little overhead.

Find more courses in this series in our WordPress DIY playlist.

Want to build a website, without all the work? Do it yourself (DIY) with WordPress and Genesis, the WordPress theme framework. This course helps you set up WordPress, showing how to choose a web host and connect to it via FTP, download and install WordPress, connect to a database, and make your first post. This is the primary step in creating and maintaining your very own WordPress website.

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Want to build a website to showcase your photography? DIY (do it yourself) with WordPress and Genesis, the WordPress theme framework. In this course, Carrie Dils shows how to create a website for a photo business or personal use, walking through every step in the process: from site planning and finding the right plugins, to installing a new theme and customizing the appearance of your site to make your photos pop. She also offers tips for prepping and sharing your site with the world.

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Want to build a website for your small business? DIY (do it yourself) with WordPress and Genesis, the WordPress theme framework. In this course, Carrie Dils shows how to create a website complete with a contact form, walking through every step in the process: from site planning and finding the right plugins, to installing a new child theme and customizing the appearance of your site to make it match your branding. She also offers tips for prepping and sharing your site with the world.

Find more courses in this series in our WordPress DIY playlist.

Want to build a website for your wedding or other special event? Make the site for your occasion with these DIY (do-it-yourself) tips for WordPress and Genesis, the WordPress theme framework. Carrie Dils guides you through the entire process: planning the site layout and content, choosing and customizing a theme for exactly the right look, and using plugins to add special features like a guestbook or image gallery. Plus, get tips for prepping and sharing your site with guests—and the rest of the world.

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Backups are critical to getting your WordPress site running again when it's broken or, even worse, hacked. Senior staff author Morten Rand-Hendriksen introduces three trusted plugins to add automatic backup routines to your WordPress site: BackUpWordPress, UpdraftPlus, and VaultPress. These options run from simple and inexpensive to robust, enterprise-level solutions. He shows how to use each plugin to configure scheduled backups and restore your site to a stable state. Devote an hour to learning how to start backing up your WordPress data now, and save countless time and worry later.

One-page sites with JavaScript-based scrolling navigation are popular, especially for creative portfolios and company websites. However, in WordPress, single-page sites also have severe restrictions and can be hard to manage. This course shows you how you can create a dynamic one-page front page for your WordPress site that pulls content from different areas and displays it in a visually stunning way. This method allows the front page to update automatically as site content changes, without you having to constantly manage it. Staff author Morten Rand-Hendriksen will take you step by step through this solution: creating a new template and content pages, calling content to the front page with custom loops, and adding JavaScript to enable sticky menus and scrolling.

Want to start making an income from your WordPress site? Try paid memberships. This course covers two great solutions for selling paid memberships with WordPress: Restrict Content Pro and iThemes Exchange Membership. They are both highly rated plugins, about equal in cost and functionality, and work right out of the box. In this course, WordPress guru Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to find, install, and configure Restrict Content Pro and iThemes Exchange Membership to restrict your content and accept payment from site members. He also shows how to set up discount codes and "drip content" that will keep your members coming back for more.

Choose the solution you think will work for you and watch that chapter, or watch the entire course before making a decision.

The WordPress content management system can provide a solid foundation for applications built with Angular, the popular front-end framework. WordPress REST API services mesh smoothly with the expectations of Angular, giving developers the opportunity to create single-page applications that provide a sophisticated window on content stored in WordPress. In this course, join instructor Roy Sivan as he showcases how easy it is to build Angular applications—powered by WordPress—when using the Angular CLI. Discover how to create an Angular WordPress theme, a plugin, and a headless app that displays data from a WordPress website.

The WordPress content management system can provide a solid foundation for applications built with Angular, the popular front-end framework. WordPress REST API services mesh smoothly with the expectations of Angular, giving developers the opportunity to create single-page applications that provide a sophisticated window on content stored in WordPress. In this course, join instructor Roy Sivan as he showcases how easy it is to build Angular applications—powered by WordPress—when using the Angular CLI. Discover how to create an Angular WordPress theme, a plugin, and a headless app that displays data from a WordPress website.

To get a specific look or feature on a WordPress site, you can customize the theme, but it will only get you so far. To go further and get full control, you need child themes. A WordPress child theme is a mini-theme that piggybacks off an existing theme. This means rather than writing all the code from scratch, you just write a new child of an original parent theme, updating only the parts you want.

WordPress: Building Child Themes opens the world of child theme development to anyone, no matter what level of experience or expertise. It helps you build your child theme on top of an existing properly coded foundation, and create stylish new WordPress sites—without the advanced knowledge of a web developer. Morten Rand-Hendriksen explains how to get started picking a parent theme, updating the CSS, creating a new template for your child theme, and updating its functionality. By the end of this practical, project-based course, you should have a functioning child theme and the skills to quickly customize your next WordPress site.

WP Rig, a new toolkit, makes building progressive themes in WordPress easy. It ships with a fully styled starter theme that can be easily customized, and it lints, optimizes, and minifies your changes as you code, making your themes as fast and performant as possible. In this course, instructor Morten Rand-Henriksen shows how to install and configure WP Rig and build a new progressive theme right out of the box. Plus, learn how to edit the underlying CSS, PHP, and JavaScript code and add advanced features such as widgets, AMP stack integration, and custom menus, backgrounds, and logos.

WP Rig, a new toolkit, makes building progressive themes in WordPress easy. It ships with a fully styled starter theme that can be easily customized, and it lints, optimizes, and minifies your changes as you code, making your themes as fast and performant as possible. In this course, instructor Morten Rand-Henriksen shows how to install and configure WP Rig and build a new progressive theme right out of the box. Plus, learn how to edit the underlying CSS, PHP, and JavaScript code and add advanced features such as widgets, AMP stack integration, and custom menus, backgrounds, and logos.

The many ways visitors access web sites, via mobile devices, tablets, and desktops, now requires sites to incorporate responsive design elements that adapt to different screen sizes and browsers. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen demonstrates design strategies, best practices, and actual code examples for creating a responsive web site. The course covers layout, navigation, responsive video embedding, and content sliders. The final chapter shows how to create an index page with jQuery Masonry, a jQuery plugin that helps you create dynamic grid layouts.

If you know how to build complex custom WordPress themes using the starter theme known as _s (Underscores), you can create nearly anything you can dream up. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to build a theme piece-by-piece by breaking it down into sections including the header, menus, images, index pages, and more. Along the way, he covers key development concepts like using Sass and Sass partials to style the theme, using Gulp to process your code, understanding the WordPress template hierarchy, customizing JavaScript to work for your theme, and more. To wrap up, Morten covers the Customizer and focuses on new features like responsive images.

Learn how to create your own website or blog with WordPress.com—the free, easy-to-use service that is democratizing publishing on the web. In these tutorials, Carrie Dils shows how to sign up for a WordPress.com account, personalize your profile, and start posting right away. Plus, learn how to add the images, videos, and links that make blog posts pop; enable social sharing and mobile browsing; and change the appearance of your site with custom themes, widgets, and menus. Drawing on her 15+ years of experience designing for the web, Carrie also provides her insights on finding and growing an audience, and deciding when it's time to grow by upgrading your account or moving on to self-hosting with WordPress.org.

As a maker of WordPress-powered websites, you've likely needed to create and add many contact forms. In this course, take a closer look at the task of creating contact forms for your WordPress site. Using four different plugins—Jetpack, Contact Form 7, Ninja Forms, and Gravity Forms—instructor Patrick Rauland walks through the process of setting up and configuring each plugin, working with the advanced features in each option, and receiving form submissions. Contact forms are a must-have for any WordPress-powered website, and these plugins—which range from simple and free to complex and pricey—can do a lot more than just ask for names, addresses, and messages. Unleash the power of contact forms, and find the plugin that's right for you.