Develop Your WordPress Website
A website is often the ‘first impression’ for customers when engaging with a business, which is why it’s important to have a professional and easy to use site. In this three-part workshop series, learn how to use the popular website creation and management platform, WordPress, to set up a website for your small business and customise it to enhance your digital presence!
This training is subsidised by the NSW Government. Eligibility criteria applies.
Course Information
Introduction to WordPress
Ready to establish your online presence, but need a bit of guidance with web design and development? This workshop will walk you through the basics of WordPress, including planning and researching prior to building a website, setting up your site, navigating the WordPress dashboard, and customising it to suit your needs.
Design Your WordPress Website
Customising your website’s design to your business is essential in maintaining brand consistency. Discover the range of themes and templates available to start your website design process, and learn how to use the page builders to input content and images in custom layouts. You’ll finish this workshop with an understanding of how to create a visually appealing and user-friendly website.
Enhance Your WordPress Website
You’ve set up your website and customised the design to align with your brand – but how do you enhance your site to drive results for your business? This workshop with focus on how to improve the functionality and performance of your website, including walking through additional features like plugins, search engine optimisation (SEO), security measures, and enhancing website visibility upon launch.
The Targeted Skills for Small Business program is a NSW Government initiative, established to deliver training for small business owners and employees of small businesses who want to better understand how to use the latest technology and gain up-to-date knowledge to improve their business operations.
Our Small Business Accelerator courses are subsidised by the NSW Government for eligible participants. You may be eligible for fully subsidised training under the Targeted Skills for Small Business program if you are:
- 15 years old or over
- no longer at school
- living or working in NSW (or an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person living in specific NSW border areas); and
- an Australian citizen, permanent resident, New Zealand citizen, or humanitarian visa holder (or a partner visa holder whose sponsor is a humanitarian visa holder)
To be eligible for subsided training under this program you must:
- be an owner of a small business, or;
- be an employee of a small business, or;
- be an employee of a not-for-profit business
NOTE: A small business is an enterprise with less than 20 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees, or less than 200 FTE employees if the enterprise's primary operation is in a regional or remote location.
Workshop Dates:
- Introduction to WordPress
Friday 10th May, 10am - 12pm - Design your WordPress Website
Monday 13th May, 12pm - 2pm - Enhance your WordPress Website
Friday 17th May, 10am - 12pm
Location:
- These workshops will be delivered online via Teams.
What you will need:
- Computer or laptop
- Internet connectivity
Meet Your Trainer
Desiree Bhullar
Desiree is the owner and director of Naked Digital, a micro agency specialising in website design and organic marketing strategies that translate into greater online visibility, higher engagement and more sales for small businesses.
Why organic traffic? Because your content gets seen without relying on paid advertising, and the SEO benefits are ongoing. Too often, small businesses are left with a website that looks great but doesn’t deliver results. Their websites aren’t being picked up by search engines, they’ve been relying on a single source of traffic, and they’ve been seduced by tricked-up marketing that does the hard sell, without making a personal connection. Desiree is here to change that.
Create, design, and enhance your website using WordPress - enrol now!
