For going on 4 years now I have used a company called Lynda.com to help keep myself and others I work with up to date on the latest software, social networks, and even new products. It’s a system of step-by-step clearly dictated video tutorials that teach you in 3-5 minutes chunks how a program works – including WordPress.

WordPress has become incredibly popular because of the simplicity it brings to working with a website. Not only is it a great program to work with, and similar to Microsoft Word, but it’s written so well that it’s easier on programmers too (which greatly lowers the cost of custom work as compared with other content management systems such as Joomla). And due to it’s popularity we’re finding that we are getting a lot of requests for “how tos” from our customers which is the reason for this post. These requests include simple items such as how to add pages and blog posts, to more complex issues like rearranging menu items – all of which are covered in these tutorials. Now we’re always, ALWAYS, happy to answer questions, but sometimes a picture is a thousand words and this is really one of those “teach them how to fish” moments by giving our customers to tools to become really proficient with WordPress. If you still get lost, no worries! We’re still at (703) 531-8669 waiting for your call.

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