Learn how to create and manage websites using WordPress without any web design background. This extensive training course covers everything from installing WordPress to customizing themes and creating custom templates, making it an essential skill for web developers as over 40% of websites use WordPress.
Learn how to create and maintain a website using WordPress, even if you have no web design background or coding experience. This comprehensive course will cover everything from installing WordPress to customizing themes and optimizing your site for search engines.
In this certificate program, you will become a well-rounded Web Designer and learn to design webpages, code them with HTML & CSS, and JavaScript, and build websites with WordPress, allowing you to create a diverse portfolio to showcase your skills to potential employers or clients.
You may well have heard of WordPress, an open-source content management system that is the platform of choice for bloggers. But WordPress does a great deal more than make it possible to publish a blog. It is a sophisticated tool that can be used to create and manage elaborate websites without recourse to coding on the user’s part. It’s remarkably easy to use, and most anyone can build a WordPress site that looks thoroughly professional. WordPress is used by 37% of all websites; anyone interested in creating a web presence for themselves or their company needs to know how to make the most of WordPress’ possibilities.
Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator are by no means necessary to create a WordPress site, but it can be useful if you wish to create something more ambitious. Thanks to a growing library of plug-ins, WordPress can accommodate ecommerce, forms, and a wide variety of other features. Better still, WordPress’ capabilities continue to grow, so that, if harnessed properly, the system can transform average users into near-experts.
WordPress is so versatile and so easy to acquire a working knowledge of that it can be an extremely valuable transferable skill to have up your professional sleeve. Some web designers use WordPress to build all their sites, rather than constructing them from the ground up, so some expert users have even built careers based on WordPress. WordPress can also be the first step toward a career in full-scale web design or even front-end development.
There’s basically not a business anywhere that can’t benefit from having a WordPress user on staff: that’s how broadly useful the system is. That applies across Chicago’s highly diverse business landscape. Web designers in Chicago make an average salary of close to $50,000 per year, but that’s only one of the career paths that WordPress can pave. Taken to one of the possible logical extremes, knowledge of WordPress can help you start a career as a front-end developer, with an average annual salary in Chicago in excess of $110,000.
If you are looking for a WordPress class in Chicago, several local in-person schools offer instruction in the system. Both Ascend Training and Ledet Training offer introductions to using WordPress; Ledet Training further offers a five-day bootcamp that takes students through to several of WordPress’s more advanced capabilities. Instruction takes place in-person at these schools, with the teacher present in the classroom alongside the students.
ONLC Training and Certstaffix Training offer their own WordPress classes. Instruction takes place in these schools' computer labs, with the teacher appearing remotely but available to answer questions in real time.
All the above schools are conveniently located in downtown Chicago, most are located within the Loop.
An alternative to in-person learning is live online instruction. It offers the convenience of being able to study in the comfort of your own space, while also allowing for the student to engage the teacher in real time. The teacher can even share students’ screens to help them through such difficulties as they might encounter. Many adults discovered the advantages of online learning during the pandemic year of 2020; many of those are choosing to continue to use online learning for professional development.
Noble Desktop, the creator of this tool, offers live online WordPress classes. Their WordPress: Create a website or Blog class is an excellent introduction to the system and will have students creating their own web presences after only one day of instruction. For those who want to take their interest in WordPress through to something far more complete, Noble’s Web Design Certificate program teaches students to use CSS, HTML, and JavaScript to become full-fledged website designers.
You may also be interested in NYIM Training’s WordPress classes, as well as NYC Career Centers’ WordPress courses.
If you are looking to introduce your staff to WordPress, or upskill their abilities with the system, Noble Desktop has exactly the solution for your organization. Noble Desktop’s corporate onsite WordPress training options include both sending expert instructors to your place of business and setting up virtual classes with the teachers via remote using a teleconferencing platform such as Zoom. To offer further flexibility, they also have a voucher program that will enable your team to take one or more of Noble’s regularly scheduled classes. Volume discounts are even available. Please contact Noble Desktop for further information.