Whether you’re a novice or advanced developer, Genesis provides a foundation that takes WordPress to places you never thought it could go. The Genesis Framework for WordPress is more than a mere WordPress theme; it’s an underlying framework of immaculate code offering three important benefits: SEO optimization, security, and a huge selection of design options. In this course, learn how to work with the framework in order to customize child themes. Carrie Dils discusses key aspects of Genesis—including template files and action hooks and filters—to help familiarize you with the structure and components that make up this framework. With a solid understanding of how Genesis operates, you can modify nearly any child theme.

Instructor

Carrie Dils
Writer, Teacher, Podcaster, Speaker
Carrie Dils is a WordPress-loving freelance developer.

Carrie has been helping businesses craft online identities since 1998 and enjoys creating sites that look great on the outside and work well on the inside. The daughter of an educator and computer scientist, Carrie is always about the business of learning more and teaching others as she goes. She blogs regularly about WordPress and the business of freelancing at carriedils.com. When she’s not behind a computer, she’s likely reading a book, running after her dogs, or taking an absurdly long walk.

Video Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Instructor: Carrie Dils

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Once you have learned the basics of HTML, it’s time to start exploring Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the language that makes HTML look great in the browser. This course gives you a tour of the possibilities, showing what CSS is capable of doing and the basics you need to make it work for you. Join Carrie Dils as she explains what CSS is and how it works with HTML, discusses authoring options, and covers common CSS concepts such as the CSS box model and how to work with fonts and color. Plus, she demonstrates how to structure a page with CSS, maintain CSS with version control, work with media queries, and more.

Instructor

Carrie Dils
Writer, Teacher, Podcaster, Speaker
Carrie Dils is a WordPress-loving freelance developer.

Carrie has been helping businesses craft online identities since 1998 and enjoys creating sites that look great on

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Instructor: Carrie Dils

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Have you wondered if using a CSS framework will speed up your website development? Frameworks give you the files and assets you need to build most websites—giving you a head start on your design process and templates for producing better, more consistent code. But they’re not right for every project. Carrie Dils introduces the types of frameworks available, including the most popular open-source options like Bootstrap and Foundation, and provides an honest assessment of their pros and cons. She guides you through the download and setup steps and helps you build a basic framework-based site. Chapter 5 explores CSS grid systems, including Flexbox and Grid (the CSS Grid Layout module), which provide a simple system for laying out page content in columns and rows.

Topics include:

• Understanding boilerplates, grids, and frameworks
• Choosing a framework
• Building your own framework
• Setting up a framework: from download to customization
• Building a new framework-based website
• Working with grids

About the Author

Carrie Dils is a WordPress-loving freelance developer.

Carrie has been helping businesses craft online identities since 1998 and enjoys creating sites that look great on the outside and work well on the inside. The daughter of an educator and computer scientist, Carrie is always about the business of learning more and teaching others as she goes. She blogs regularly about WordPress and the business of freelancing at carriedils.com. When she’s not behind a computer, she’s likely reading a book, running after her dogs, or taking an absurdly long walk.

Video Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Video Duration: 1h 34m
• Instructor: Carrie Dils

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Build a website for your independent business in the same spirit you run it. DIY (do it yourself) with WordPress and Genesis, the WordPress theme framework. In this course, Carrie Dils shows how to create a website complete with features such as a contact form, social media sharing buttons, and even recipes. She walks through every step in the process: from site planning and finding the right plugins, to installing a new child theme and customizing the appearance of your site to make it match your brand. She also offers tips for prepping and sharing your site with the world.

About the Author

Carrie Dils is a WordPress-loving freelance developer. Carrie has been helping businesses craft online identities since 1998 and enjoys creating sites that look great on the outside and work well on the inside. The daughter of an educator and computer scientist, Carrie is always about the business of learning more and teaching others as she goes. She blogs regularly about WordPress and the business of freelancing at carriedils.com. When she’s not behind a computer, she’s likely reading a book, running after her dogs, or taking an absurdly long walk.

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• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Instructor: Carrie Dils

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Want to take your WordPress site worldwide? WordPress’s internationalization features allow developers to configure their code so they can be easily translated and localized. In this course, Carrie Dils introduces the specific functions and tools WordPress developers can use to make their code translation-ready. Learn how to use translation functions in WordPress and PHP, prep code for translation, adjust for special cases such as plurals, and internationalize your themes and plugins. Know another language? Find out how you can help the entire WordPress community by contributing to the WordPress translation project on GlotPress, an open-source platform used to translate WordPress.

Topics include:

• Why internationalization is important
• Using the gettext() function
• Translating strings, HTML, and JavaScript
• Adding context for translations
• Adding and loading text domains for WordPress themes and plugins
• Translating using GlotPress

About the Author

Carrie Dils is a WordPress-loving freelance developer. Carrie has been helping businesses craft online identities since 1998 and enjoys creating sites that look great on the outside and work well on the inside. The daughter of an educator and computer scientist, Carrie is always about the business of learning more and teaching others as she goes. She blogs regularly about WordPress and the business of freelancing at carriedils.com. When she’s not behind a computer, she’s likely reading a book, running after her dogs, or taking an absurdly long walk.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Advanced
• Video Duration: 54m 22s
• Instructor: Carrie Dils

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Get up and running with Genesis, the hugely popular theme framework that empowers users of all stripes to quickly and easily build websites with WordPress. Instructor Carrie Dils shows you how to install Genesis and configure the basic settings, from selecting a layout to enabling comments. Carrie goes over the different types of homepages—and how to choose the one that best suits your needs—and discusses how to work with popular widgets. She also offers a few tips for when you’re ready to take WordPress further with search engine optimization (SEO), accelerated mobile pages (AMP), and various plugins you can use to extend the framework’s functionality.

About the Author

Carrie Dils is a WordPress-loving freelance developer. Carrie has been helping businesses craft online identities since 1998 and enjoys creating sites that look great on the outside and work well on the inside. The daughter of an educator and computer scientist, Carrie is always about the business of learning more and teaching others as she goes. She blogs regularly about WordPress and the business of freelancing at carriedils.com. When she’s not behind a computer, she’s likely reading a book, running after her dogs, or taking an absurdly long walk.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Beginner
• Video Duration: 1h 4m
• Instructor: Carrie Dils

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If you have a WordPress site, you may have heard that you can benefit from using a content delivery network (CDN), but you might not understand the technology or how to use it. This course teaches what you need to know to confidently use a CDN with a WordPress site.

CDNs are great, but they aren’t necessary for every website. Instructor Carrie Dils explains what a CDN is, what types of sites benefit from a CDN, and what type of content a CDN serves. What if your web host already has a CDN, but you want to use your own? Carrie shows you how to proceed. A CDN is just one part of a larger strategy for optimizing your website for speed, and Carrie explains some other parts to consider. Carrie walks you through how to choose a CDN provider and reviews key features of several popular CDN providers. Once you’ve chosen a CDN provider, you’ll need to enable, configure, and integrate the CDN. Carrie shows you how to navigate that process successfully, including how to speed test your site.

About the Author

Carrie Dils is a WordPress-loving freelance developer. Carrie has been helping businesses craft online identities since 1998 and enjoys creating sites that look great on the outside and work well on the inside. The daughter of an educator and computer scientist, Carrie is always about the business of learning more and teaching others as she goes. She blogs regularly about WordPress and the business of freelancing at carriedils.com. When she’s not behind a computer, she’s likely reading a book, running after her dogs, or taking an absurdly long walk.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Advanced
• Video Duration: 39m 55s
• Instructor: Carrie Dils

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Get up and running with Genesis, the hugely popular theme framework that empowers users of all stripes to quickly and easily build websites with WordPress. Instructor Carrie Dils shows you how to install Genesis and configure the basic settings, from selecting a layout to enabling comments. Carrie goes over the different types of homepages—and how to choose the one that best suits your needs—and discusses how to work with popular widgets. She also offers a few tips for when you’re ready to take WordPress further with search engine optimization (SEO), accelerated mobile pages (AMP), and various plugins you can use to extend the framework’s functionality.

About the Author

Carrie Dils is a WordPress-loving freelance developer. Carrie has been helping businesses craft online identities since 1998 and enjoys creating sites that look great on the outside and work well on the inside. The daughter of an educator and computer scientist, Carrie is always about the business of learning more and teaching others as she goes. She blogs regularly about WordPress and the business of freelancing at carriedils.com. When she’s not behind a computer, she’s likely reading a book, running after her dogs, or taking an absurdly long walk.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Beginner
• Video Duration: 1h 4m
• Instructor: Carrie Dils

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WordPress has come a long way since the first version in 2003. What started as simple blogging software has become a full-fledged content management system used by companies large and small all over the world. One of the biggest changes came in 2018 with the introduction of blocks, which fundamentally changed how you edit content in WordPress. Now, a variety of block types—headings, images, quotes, and more—are used to create rich content. In this course, Carrie Dils takes a look at the next big change coming to WordPress, full-site editing. With full-site editing, the block editor is used for all aspects of the site, not just the content area. Headers, footers, and sidebars alike can be formatted and populated with blocks. While full-site editing is still in the early stages of development and adoption, if you’re a WordPress developer, this first-look course provides a good introduction to the concepts and a way for you to get ready when full-site editing officially lands.

About the Author

Carrie Dils is a WordPress-loving freelance developer. Carrie has been helping businesses craft online identities since 1998 and enjoys creating sites that look great on the outside and work well on the inside. The daughter of an educator and computer scientist, Carrie is always about the business of learning more and teaching others as she goes. She blogs regularly about WordPress and the business of freelancing at carriedils.com. When she’s not behind a computer, she’s likely reading a book, running after her dogs, or taking an absurdly long walk.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Beginner
• Video Duration: 49m 2s
• Instructor: Carrie Dils

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