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“Cooking up a website” training – new date, 17 Jan

The “Cooking up a website” training session has been moved by a week – previously mentioned for 10th Jan, the session will now be held on 17 Jan 2011.

Mon 17 Jan 2011
2pm – 4pm
at VANEL offices, Melbourne House, Grimsby
FREE to attend for North East Lincolnshire based voluntary and community sector organisations.
Limited places – booking essential. (A £20 admin fee will be charged for non-attending bookings)

What is it?

what ingredients does a website need?
how much does a website cost?
how long will it take to build a website?
who needs to be involved?
how long is a piece of string?
can I get a volunteer to build it?
who should I approach?
what are html, css, php? should I care?
will someone do it all for me?
why should we bother?

If your organisation has no website at all or has a website that needs work, how are you going about getting a useful website built or rebuilt?

Do you have the money, skills or resources to get a website sorted out?

Do you need to know what you don’t know?

This 2 hour briefing/training session/workshop is designed to talk you through all you need to know about getting your organisation online.
We’ll look at the key ingredients and the different recipies you can use to build a website.
We’ll look at who you might need to get the job done – DIY, keen amateurs or professionals?
We’ll dispel some myths, give some tips, answer your questions and worries and point you in the right direction.

The session will hopefully help educate you further and leave you understanding what to do next.

Session delivered by Karl Elliott, Hub Manager and IT Network Manager at VANEL.

Book now by calling Karl Elliott or Vicky Hardy at VANEL on 01472 231123 or email karl@vanel.org.uk

“Cooking up a website” training course

Another date for your diary – 10 Jan 2011, 2pm-4pm for our “Cooking up a website” briefing.

Aimed at those looking after IT in local voluntary and community organisations and looking to tackle the subject of their websites.

It’s an only-slightly-technical briefing designed to explain what ingredients go into a website, what flavours you can have, methods of cooking up a website etc. We’ll tackle terminology and techniques as well as busting some myths and sharing lots of tips.

You’ll be able to leave understanding your next steps – whether you decide to build or develop a website yourself, use a volunteer, hire a professional, buy software, use a template or whatever else.

Places will be very limited so please book soon.

WordPress training – 1st October

There are just a couple of places left on the WordPress session VANEL is running on Friday 1st October. This is a repeat of the very successful session we ran back in August (here).

The session is free and open to any IT supporters of third sector organisations in North East Lincolnshire. However, there are very limited places so sign up soon!

The session is a full morning learning WordPress in depth – enough for you to get started on building a first WordPress website for your organisation. We’ll then carry on through the afternoon to actually get real, live websites built there and then for those keen to get a website up and running asap.

9.30am start – approx 1pm, lunch, then 2pm- 4.30pm handson session.

To book call Karl Elliott or Vicky Hardy at VANEL on 01472 231123 or email karl@vanel.org.uk.

Not come across WordPress before?

Wordpress is a blogging tool (quick guide to blogs here). It’s free. It can do a lot more than just blogging – whole sites can be built around it.

You can get a free blog/site in seconds hosted by WordPress, or you can download the tool (for free) and host it yourself for complete control.

Most of the VANEL Third Sector Hub websites are built in WordPress – have a look:

www.thirdsectorhub.org.uk
www.thirdsectorhub.org.uk/itnet
www.vanel.org.uk/compact
www.thrivetrustees.org.uk
www.thriveleaders.org.uk
www.neltsp.org.uk/regen

Or take a look at some other cool examples of WordPress sites…

here, here, here, and here !

Not got a website? Website tired & in need of work? Do you have little money but some time and willingness to get going yourself? Give me a call to discuss or get yourself booked onto this course.

there’s a Websites group here for further discussion
or a Social Media group here to discuss blogging

lots more articles on websites, blogging, wordpress etc coming soon.

Thanks. Karl

WordPress training – 10th August

There are just a couple of places left on the WordPress session VANEL is running on Tuesday 10th August.

The session is free and open to any IT supporters of third sector organisations in North East Lincolnshire. However, there are very limited places so sign up soon! If we get the demand then expect to see another date scheduled in for September!