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Instructor Bio
Mary Gillen has been an active Web developer since 1995, and has developed SEO-compliant Internet and Intranet Web sites for such organizations as NIH AIDS Research & Reference Reagent Program , The World Bank, The International Brotherhood of the Teamsters, Cancer Research Foundation of America, McKinsey & Company, and many others. She always asks the question: what need is this Web site going to solve? Mary then designs and develops Web applications that truly serve, including Web-based content management systems that fit the work flows of organizations and give clients autonomy to control their own content. She develops Web-based applications using Cold Fusion, PHP, XML, XSLT, CSS, SQL, JavaScript, and third-party e-commerce applications.
She is also an experienced technical instructor who has taught over 8,000 individuals across the U.S. since 1995 via classroom and online instruction environments. Mary instructs XML, XSLT, SQL, JavaScript, ColdFusion, PHP, AJAX, Writing for the Web, WordPress, e-commerce, Web/Email Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Using Social Media for Online Marketing courses.
WordPress
Live, Instructor-Led Online Course
WordPress
2 Days Online
Instructor: Mary Gillen
Overview
WordPress is a popular open source publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It can be used to create "hybrid" Web sites that include Web pages, blog posts, RSS feeds, search functionality, ecommerce shopping carts, and more. It is also a content management framework, with a user-friendly workflow, diversified plugin architecture, and advanced templating system. According to Wikipedia, WordPress is used to structure and format over 202 million Web sites worldwide.
In this hands-on, instructor-led online course, you will learn how to configure and customize a WordPress Web site/blog.
WordPress Training Prerequisites
Attendees should be comfortable with basic HTML prior to taking this course.
Software Needed on Each Student Computer
- Internet Explorer 6 or higher
- Firefox 2 or higher
- XAMPP Apache distribution containing MySQL and PHP
- Web page or text editor students will be using after the class
Topics covered in class
- How to set up the WordPress development environment
- How PHP and MySQL works
- How to install WordPress
- How to decipher the WordPress file structure
- How to add content to WordPress
- How to customize your WordPress theme
- How to use Wordpress widgets and plugins
- How to customize your WordPress settings for search engine optimization
Tuition: $795 per person
Register:
May 27-28, 2010 | June 24-25, 2010 | July 22-23, 2010 | August 26-27, 2010 | September 23-24, 2010 | October 14-15, 2010 | November 8-9, 2010 | December 02-03, 2010
Testimonials
"I took an SQL class with Mary some time ago. She was explaining 'joins'. When she finished, all the students had the 'deer in the headlights' look. We didn't have a clue of what joins were. More advanced concepts were coming after joins, so it wasn't looking good. Not to worry. Mary sent us on break and promised to have a better explanation by the time we returned.
We left the room with no hope of learning anything else that day. However, when we returned from break, Mary had a new approach for explaining joins, and we quickly got the concept.
This is just one example of Mary's willingness to go the extra mile in order to give students what they need. I find that Mary's teaching style works for me, and I will seek her out again and again when I have training needs."
- Toni Tates
Webmaster/Desktop Publisher
NIH AIDS Research & Reference Reagent Program
Germantown, MD
Other instructor-led online classes available:
ColdFusion | Advanced ColdFusion | HTML | CSS | Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional | Search Engine Optimization Essentials | PHP | Javascript | XML | XSLT | Using Social Media for Online Marketing