Building Your Digital Home with WordPress
Your website is your central hub. WordPress offers incredible flexibility and power.
Topics:
- WordPress Basics: Understanding the dashboard, posts vs. pages, and core settings.
- Domain & Hosting Essentials: Choosing the right foundation for your website.
- Theme Installation & Customization: Selecting and tailoring themes to match your brand.
- Essential Plugins: Enhancing functionality with SEO, security, contact forms, and more.
- Creating Engaging Content: Formatting text, embedding media, and structuring pages for readability.
- Website Navigation & User Experience: Designing intuitive layouts for visitors.
HTML & CSS - Structuring and Styling Websites
Topics:
- HTML5 elements and structure
- CSS3 fundamentals (selectors, properties, colors, fonts)
- Flexbox & Grid for responsive layouts
- CSS animations and transitions
- Media queries and responsive design
JavaScript & Front-End Interactivity
Topics:
- JavaScript basics (variables, functions, loops)
- DOM manipulation and event handling
- ES6+ features (arrow functions, destructuring, promises)
- Fetch API & asynchronous programming
- Introduction to JavaScript frameworks (React.js, Vue.js, or Angular)
UI/UX Design for Web
Topics:
- Wireframing and prototyping (Figma, Adobe XD)
- User experience (UX) fundamentals
- Web accessibility (WCAG guidelines)
- Color theory and typography for web
Front-End Frameworks & Libraries
Topics:
- Bootstrap / Tailwind CSS for styling
- React.js (components, props, state, hooks)
- Vue.js or Angular (optional)
Version Control & Deployment
Topics:
- Git and GitHub (repository management, branching)
- Deploying websites with GitHub Pages, Netlify, or Vercel
- Introduction to CI/CD
Back-End Development
Topics:
- Introduction to servers and databases
- Node.js & Express.js (setting up a back-end server)
- RESTful API development
- Authentication & security (JWT, OAuth)
Database Management
Topics:
- SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) basics
- NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Firebase)
- CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
Full-Stack Development
Topics:
- Connecting front-end with back-end
- MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js) stack
- MVC architecture
- GraphQL vs REST API
Performance Optimization & SEO
Topics:
- Optimizing website speed and performance
- Image compression & lazy loading
- SEO basics (meta tags, sitemaps, indexing)
- Core Web Vitals & Google Lighthouse