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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

How To Effectively Tutor Wordpress To Amateurs

By Haley Bonner


Nowadays, being savvy in the Internet is considered to be cool. When people are capable of making their own website without even going through considerable amount of formal training, they are considered to be cool. There is that double standard that even amateurs want to overcome and so they look for someone who can tutor WordPress.

This is definitely an effective way to start up one's journey to becoming Internet savvy. They should get themselves familiar with the most popular and basic platforms in the Internet, after all. In order for them to be called a child of digital age, they should start out with this and then branch out to other platforms available.

To those who are already knowledgeable in this field, then you should consider helping out these amateurs. Of course, it is easier for you to teach them if they already have basic knowledge of the use of the computer. Otherwise, you might need to start teaching them elementary knowledge.

Assuming that amateurs know how to use the computer, you can go ahead and tell them how they can use this platform. When it comes to teaching the said amateurs, there should be a few things you can do for it. To teach them, here are some effective means that you can use these days.

First of all, you have to ask them directly what they want to do. If they want to make a blog or a website on their own determines what you will be teaching them. If they say blog, then this is the platform suitable for them as a beginner. If it is a website, then you might want to look for another easy-to-use websites.

Tour them around the website. You have to let them know what they can see first, where is the dashboard, and other parts of the site. Let them know what each button on the landing page after the sign up does for the viewer. In such cases, you have to be patient considering that there are numerous buttons you can click.

Since you are already giving them a tour, then you just have to demonstrate what basic functions they can take advantage of in the said platform. You have to specifically teach them the step-by-step procedures of the feature they will definitely use frequently. Have them try it out for themselves too to determine whether they understand or not.

They might have some little changes they want to make to the layout, font, font style, font size, and such of the content they want to post. Let them know how they can make it. You can just tell them about the buttons that are in the page that will allow them to do what they want to do or you can tell them some hard codes for HTML programming.

There might be times when the amateur will want to change the appearance or layout of the blog. Some wants to change the theme. You have to tell them about this. Let them know that there are various themes both for free and for sale online. Let them choose what they want.




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