Saturday 19 July 2014

How To Tutor Wordpress To An Internet Dummy

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.

Indeed, this is one of the basic ways on how people can become Internet savvy. When they are familiar with this popular and basic platform, then they should be able to consider themselves as a child of the digital age. Of course, they should not be limited to this platform. There are other platforms that they should take advantage of.

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 these amateurs are capable of handling the basic functions of the computer, you can then teach them how to use the said platform. There are effective ways on how you can actually teach them about it. Here are some of those effective ways to teach amateurs the art of the Internet.

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.

You have to demonstrate to them the basic functions of the website or the functions that they will most commonly use. In this case, posting contents is what they will do frequently. For this, you have to tell them what button in the landing page they will have to click to be able to post the content that they want to post.

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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