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2010 – March

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:24:25 +0000

It’s terribly difficult to tackle a subject such as WordPress in 90 minutes, but you managed not only to deliver a great overview, but answer a few more advanced questions. Nicely done.

Rick K

I really enjoyed your event and learned so much. I know I will find the information very useful in the future. I look forward to future events that you host.

Ann G

Hi Christine,

Very interesting article, thank you!

As a virtual assistant, one of the most requested services I offer is the installation and semi-customization of WordPress blogs and websites.

1.5 years past, the only way to learn about WP was to devour the internet and set up my own sites through trial and error. (Fortunately, my host support was instrumental as well and I was willing to learn.) It was hours to self-train and then days to learn how to semi-customize. But the learning really never ends and every week I learn something new!

I want to take this one (or two steps) beyond and learn more about WordPress…about customizing as well as more about cloud computing.

Do you have any no-cost suggestions for resources? I’d really like to write an instructional e-book for VAs who want to enter the WP market.

Finally, IShoppingCart is one of the most requested programs requested as well. Is there an open source shopping cart program? I’d really like to learn this as well.

Thank you.

Janine G

Christine , I am living proof that your article , is 100% true.

We just started a blog , my web designer helped a little with the set up ; however from my perspective blogs can get expensive if you have to outsource every little change . I picked wordpress for the open source capabilites …. I have not actually launched the blog to my clients as thier are still little bugs i need to work out ; Such as flash capabilities for animation , is what i want to use for my about page which will be the home page…

Natalie W

And thank you so much for the shopping cart plug in! I’m thrilled about this! It is something often requested by clients and the only way to really learn is to upload and create my own cart!

So pleased to have “met” you…

Janine G

WordPress is fantastic. I have to admit I had a bit of a laugh when you mentioned a linux netbook in Nigeria.

I pictured a fellow sending out mass emails about helping him retrieve his family fortune.

Graeme W

Christine. Thanks for the insightful post on plug ins. I have been building a couple of blogs in WordPress and haven’t really gotten into the plugins due to my lack of understanding. This arcticle has provided me with clarity regarding the use of plugins and I think I’ll give it a try!

Collin H

Chris, this was my third “WordPress 101″ workshop with you. Gems! Every time! I finally understand the value of permalinks (never even knew what they were called), and I now know how to locate appropriate plugins. Every time I master something it encourages me to tackle more. Thanks!

Myrna H

Christine and Christin – You were sooo helpful. I learned so much your style is clear, educational and even a little fun. I look forward to continuing to learn more with you in the future… You gave me things I can do right now to improve my page ( as soon as I get a chance ) but mostly you gave me a sense that I can do this! …what a gift. warmly

Meira S

In the short time Chritine and Christin had to share the wealth of WordPress they did a fabulous job; there’s a ton to cover and they did a great intro into this tool.

Jerry P

Wonderful event. I learned so much and highly recommend this to anyone interested in developing a web site or switching from an old web site to a wordpress site. Christine and Christin covered an amazing amount of material in a very short time!

Ann F

Thank you for this event. WordPress is amazing. There is so much to learn. I came away learning a few new tips. Looking forward to trying them out. Great presentation!

Debbie Y

I thought this class was great. Very informative, practical and helpful. I highly recommend it. Christine has a good teaching style and the visual presesntation made it easy to follow along with her.

Laura M

Christine did an outstanding job explaining the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com for me. I especially enjoyed hearing how My Sql works behind the scenes to create a powerful website building program. Fascinating workshop!

Sylvia F

I agree, Sylvia, Christine did a superb job of explaining the back-end of WordPress. Also, I did not realize how flexible WordPress has become. It’s definitely not just for bloggers anymore. My day was a tad tight, so I couldn’t hang around afterwards, having to leave about 5 min early. I wanted to clarify if a current site could be converted to WordPress or would it be a cut and paste kind of thing, a tedious procedure with multiple pages, images and flash files, in which case a whole new WP site might be easier.

David B

Christine and Christin were WoW! Thanks for imparting so much great information to us about a powerful web tool.

Lotus L

Great article Chris. Thanks. I’m putting all these articles together to make a ‘noddy’ guide so I can manage my site really well. I didn’t know Permalinks even existed. Going to try them now.

Gary C

Wonderful quick and easy tips, Thanks Christine!

Jan S

Thanks for your presentation today. every time I hear this material, I pick up another nugget…it’s like connecting the dots

If you are new to WordPress I think Christine’s promotion is one of the best values you will find. Having a professional load the program and theme, you know you are getting started on the right foot. And having a practice site is invaluable, you can experiment and make all the mistakes you want before going live. Case in point: I mistakenly dumped practically my whole site off of Filezilla! Christine took the time to reconstruct the thing for me, so at least I know where to start over from. Make no mistake, there is a serious learning curve for WP (at least I find it so). But Christine’s workshops are packed with information, presented in a clear and logical way. You’re limited only by how much data you can absorb at one sitting!

Best, Susan

2010 – February

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:20:16 +0000

I found the workshop very helpful indeed. It was just the right length to fit into my day, and I really appreciated it being small so I could ask lots of questions. They covered a lot of ground. WordPress is very versatile and user friendly, and they both did a great job of showing us how to use it. I left feeling totally ready to try and will call them for support if I need it. Terrific workshop, highly recommend it.

Alexandra I

Loved it! Smart, savvy team, patient, excellent teachers, clear demonstration. Can’t wait for more.

Robyn F

I attended your event couple weeks ago and I was impressed with your presentation.

Momodou J

I attended one of your classes at the Den about 2 weeks ago and really enjoyed it.

Ann H

Thank you so much for a very informative Biznik event!! I am so glad that I made it!! I look forward to other events hosted by and you reading your articles!! I plan on signing up for one of your workshops.

Debbie M

Thank you, thank you, thank you! It confirmed a lot of what I thought and gave me some ah ha moments and much much more…looking forward to the next.

Katie K

Collin H

Good job! I work with WordPress too and know that putting these articles together was a lot of work on your part. Your instructions are clear and concise in making the features in WordPress more user friendly!

Ritama H

Chris, what great talent you have -in wordpress experience for sure -and also in your ability to extract what’s most useful to beginners and then present it in a clear concise, understandable way. Bravo!

Brenda M

Thank you Christine! These articles have come at the perfect time, as I had recently planned to start teaching myself WordPress for my clients. I look forward to the rest of the series.

Renee B

Great article Chris, looking forward to part 2 so I can put it all together

Trisha S

Thanks for letting me know about this article. I’ll look forward to reading the rest.

Noah S

WoW Chris! Great article… Can you send me the articles directly when you finish them. They’ll help a lot with my website. Thanks.

John O

Good job! Keep up the good work; I’m looking forward to your next article.

Phil B

Thanks so much for putting this together. I can’t wait to make it to another of your classes, I’m finding I missed taking some notes I should have. I appreciate your drive and desire to educate on WP!!!

Beverly W

Thank you so much for this article! The student was ready, and in walks the teacher!

Melanie D

Thanks so much. I have enjoyed using wordpress already, but have not fully understood the parent/ child feature. Thanks for the explanation! I’m looking forward to learning more and passing it along.

Rosemary L

Thank you for the very informative article. The timing is perfect. I just transferred over my wordpress.com to a .org site and was wondering what to do next. Looking forward to your next article! Keep up the good work!

Marie B

You know something bigger is a work when….. I am just starting a wordpress blog and my first thought was ‘where do I begin?’.

Thanks so much for your timely article.

Chris J

Best article I’ve seen on Biznik and one of the best I’ve seen in 18 years on the web.

Susie S

Christine, wow – I’ve been using WP for a while but have NEVER gotten the parent/child thing. Now, it’s all so clear! Thank you. : )

Lynn B

Nice article. Makes it clear the benefits if CRM.

Brian W

Great job Christine. Helps me think through this important topic. I have Prophet, which integrates with Outlook, but the HARD part is getting the data in, making the time. Thanks for breaking it down for me.

Sue O

Excellent article, I have such a system. Still trying to fully understand it.

Rolland R

Awesome Biznik event! Tons of useful information and it got me pumped up to take action on building my blog with WordPress. Thanks you so much! I would highly recommend anyone that wants to start a blog to attend your class first!

Mark J

I attended a one-on-one session with Christin from Wow (World of WordPress) and really felt I walked away with a much better understanding of how to use WordPress themes to develop my websites and blogs. Christin and her business partner, Christine Ely also host free/hands on workshops which present an overview on how to develop your website or blog or for those who want a more in depth/hands on workshop you can pay a fee. Check out http://Biznik.com for details. I thought it was worth it and would recommend it.

Diane C

2010 – January

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:03:14 +0000

Christine and Christin put a lot of information into a few short hours, but it was the road map I certainly needed to get me feet wet with WordPress. The instruction was clear and everybody was engaged in the process. Thanks for making your knowledge & experience available to us so we all get better. Recommend this class to everyone who wants to demystify WP!

Carla Conrad

I am very impressed with the capabilities of Word Press and how well you know the product and your ability to convey the information to others. A lot was covered in 4 hours and you did a great job preparing us to start building our own websites. I really appreciate the quick follow up email that same afternoon and look forward to working with you more in the future. Thanks for liberating me to take control of my own website – yeah!

Cari Barron

Christine is terrific at dispensing information in a way that is easily assimilated. If you are curious about the world of WordPress, I encourage you to get in touch with Christine!

Diane Dyer

This was a great class. With Christine’s and Christin’s guidance, I feel that I’m well on my way to master the magical world of WP. Christine is a wonderful teacher — very patient, kind and knowledgeable. Highly recommended.

Magrit Baurecht

I attended Christine’s class this past Monday and walked away with a lot more knowledge about WordPress than when I walked in. Christine shared her expertise with us in a clear, step-by-step fashion that was easy to understand and provided sources to the class that are easily accessible….and some for free. I am excited about tackling my next WordPress website as my client wants to have the ability to make changes on his own. Christine’s class provided awareness to numerous tools to be able to do this and access to a more in-depth class if anyone wanted to further their learning. Thumbs up big time. I’d highly recommend this class.

Diane Christensen

Great event! You make it look so easy and intuitive!

Julai Baldwin

This was a fantastic event. The information was very well organized, and clearly presented. Christine knows the material thoroughly, and was able to manage lots of questions from participant without getting off track.

I was not looking forward to setting up a wordpress website, and am now totally excited to get in there and design a website that I will love. I am confident that I understand the basics enough to get going and sort through the ton of options with a higher level of discernment than just hours ago.

Thanks Christine, for making yourself and your knowledge so available!

Molly Morrissey

Thank you Christine and Christin! Great class. I appreciated getting the birds eye view of all that is possible with WordPress as well as practical info on how to get started.

David Bilbrey

Extremely informative event. Thank you for making it look so easy to do, but more importantly making it clear that I NEED to do this. Plus your offer to help setup and host my site for $60 is an amazing value. Sign me up!

Alan – Alabastro Photography

2009 – December

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:17:23 +0000

Christine was fabulous! She covered a lot of information for a diverse group of newbies and those familiar with WordPress. I highly recommend her workshop!

Cathy

I attended your seminar at the Mosaic Den Thursday. I had to leave while you were still busy, so I wanted to say thank you in this slightly less gracious fashion, by e-mail. You do a wonderful job of explaining WordPress

Diane

Thank you again for sharing your knowledge with us!

Beverly

Christine, thanks so much for hosting this workshop. It was very informative…I installed Word Press and am looking forward to designing my new web site soon. Have a wonderful Holiday.

Debbie

2009 – November

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:23:06 +0000

Thank you Christine for a GREAT event yesterday. You wonderfully presented a wealth of information! I can’t wait to get started with WordPress:)

Jennifer Gardner

It was a great event.. Thank you Chrisine~ I’m sure WordPress is the way I will go~

Coleen Sanders

I have used WordPress themes to create three of my web sites and although this class is great for beginners, I also learned more! Time well spent.

Loma Gregg

Thanks, Christine. Useful information and questions were answered. I’d really enjoy a session that was all more advanced questions.

Kelly Davis

2009 – October

admin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:24:40 +0000

I was so excited and empowered by what I learned that next week I will dive in and see what I can accomplish on my own. It’s great to know that Christine is a resource I can turn to if I find myself in too deep. Christine, you rock WordPress.

Cindy Combs

The workshop was excellent. I can’t wait to try out WordPress. Christine explained everything so clearly and adapted very well to all the different levels of familiarity. I would highly recommend this, and hope to attend another session with Christine sometime.

Catherine Hinrichsen

What a terrific overview! Concise, comprehensive, intelligible. Christine is a consummate pro!

Margaret Friedman

Christine’s World of WordPress workshop was excellent. She explained the system in a very understandable fashion with great patience for all the questions thrown at her. Thanks for your generosity!

and…

I just got back from this workshop and I’m so glad I went. This is my first exposure to Christine and WordPress. I’m very impressed with both. Thanks Christine for providing so much information in a very easily understandable format.

Barry North, PhD, MPH

Hi Christine, great info at your WordPress event at Mosaic Den. Lots of detail.. .Thx for offering again. Pros say WordPress is the only way to go, Blogger.com is for amateurs, but for me a good place to practice (free). Looking forward to content, and my first event. Jay P.S. Easy? I need easy!

Jay Burow

Christine has been so generous with her time and experise! I am excited to be using the new WordPress skills that she has brought to my business!!

Rebecca Ross

That was an amazingly clear and ultimately very enlightening presentation. You’ve made some converts. I still have a ton of questions about using transparent Flash overlays with the WordPress sites, particularly when they straddle 2 or more blocks of info (like header and margin or header and menus.)

Terry Simpson

Chris, this was my second workshop with you on “WordPress 101″ , and I still had a full page of notes! Thanks so much!

Myrna Hoffman

Great session. It’s not possible to learn it all in 90 minutes, but it was a strong overview.

Deb Arnold

This was an extraordinary event. Amazing amount of useful information, presented calmly and clearly. Chris takes a lot of the “fear” out of something that is otherwise intimidating.

Highly recommended.

Bart Reynolds

I’ll sign up when I can, and I’m glad you are charging for your time, it is worth it!

What a great workshop. We were spoiled by the small class size and individual attention. Christine and Christin really know WordPress thoroughly and were excellent instructors.

I am looking forward to working with them both on a new site or two. They’ve convinced me that this is the best way to go . . . ;-)

Nina Bondarook

Christine: Thank you. I thought this was well done and you definitely know your stuff. I’d like to see a seminar titled “how to build a website through WordPress”. It would be simple and people would walk away with the knowledge about how to start. Alot of the material yesterday lost us who are beginners. And I would bet that is most of your audience. Thanks again!

Paul McFadden

WOW! This workshop was packed with useful, clear instructions on all sorts of WordPress widgets, plug-ins and how-tos! I really appreciated how much was packed into this. Thank-you for a very informative and useful seminar

Sandy Basker

Thank you, Christine. I’m very pleased that I attended your workshop. Very informative and easy to understand. I learned quite a bit and all of it is very simple to implement. Well done! Again, thank you -

Chik

Thanks so much Christine! As a total novice in web development, who just launched her first website, I found the material easy to follow and WordPress absolutely seems like the way to go. Can’t wait until I can get transitioned over.

Rachel

Christine, I just attended this workshop and learned so much that I want to encourage everyone to attend. Regardless of how much or how little you all know about internet, blogs, websites,etc… don’t miss this opportunity to spend time with Christine. She explains it all so clearly and makes it look easy!

Karen Floyd

Hi Christine! Wow, at the risk of hyperbole, my life has been getting better and better since I first attended your WordPress workshop a few weeks ago.

Granted, I just lived through a heinous move out of my hold place so ANYthing’s got to be better after that, haha, but your kindly introduction to WordPress as “something much more than a blog” (since I don’t consider myself a writer has really sparked something now.

First off, your showing us that the ability to post images as a sort of picture-blog really just got me over my hangups about writing – haha! And since I have this archive of hundreds of scanned drawings and characters moldering away in storage, suddenly you have made them relevant, given them a new home where they can be seen.

In the olden days of yore (1997! haha!) it would have been such a major undertaking to design and code a page for these sketches, and as rough works in progress (while interesting, at least to me the level of labor to get them posted was prohibitive. But now, suddenly I see how this can work, how this makes such a smooth pathway for the content to come out of the cobwebs. Thank you for that…otherwise they would’ve been stuck away for years, like the Ark in the Indiana Jones movie. (And even if the sketches are terrible, at least this gives me an excuse to stare that straight in the face

So thanks to you, this idea of copyright registering my hundreds of images prior to publishing them (more cost effective to register with the U.S. Copyright Office as a group of unpublished works for a single fee, rather than registering each and every individual published piece later) and then releasing them on WordPress image blog – releasing a new sketch or more each day – like blowing a dandelion into the wind! – seems wonderfully appealing.

Shaking loose some old calcified ideas for sure…now Christine’s introduction to WordPress is accidental therapy too in addition to a play space

And the best part happened today. I am up for consideration for a project bid with a new client and usually I would email them attachments of my design sketches. Since it’s going to a committee and they’re traveling from different locations to review this work and their budgets, the idea of posting it into a nice already-prepared WordPress design theme to have the committee view from various locations to make their decisions seemed like a fun little experiment to try this morning.

Guess what: It WORKED. They LOVED the presentation (I credit Christine and WP!). Somehow my drawings on the backs of scrap paper (still getting settled after this move, I tell ya!) went from just that tsuddenyl o a nicely professionally presented WordPress page with notations on the sketches, why certain choices were made with this character or that, and at the end a SlideShare.net PDF file was added on to end of the WordPress posts at the bottom to show them a past project I’d done that demonstrated the quality of finish they can expect later (since they’re looking at my rough drawings for the first time and may not know that I actually can finish things professionally too, not just pencil scribbles, haha!) Normally I would have been too shy to attach the other project to an email for fear of looking too ambitious , but here it is on that page and they can take it or leave it but at least it’s available to them.

Basically I’m not here to blab about my work (and I’m sorry that I have in all this enthusiasm – aag!) but I’m here to say that Christine’s generously and gently supportive introduction has really started something rumbling for me in the right direction. THANK YOU.

I didn’t see this one coming, back when I thought I was just going to make a “blog” like everyone else, and get with it after a few years languishing outside of design .

Something in the special yet subtle way Christine’s presented it is now sparking something exhilarating and this idea that a WordPress page can be a creative play space (private and not publicly viewable even!) or an online scrapbook of pictures and mp3 files and videos and words…something where we can memorialize our interests and passions all in one place.

There is something really special about this multimedia blank canvas that holds promise for so much more, and it took Christine’s special wisdom and enthusiasm to get me there.

THANK YOU, Christine! Sorry for all the gushing!

That said, this workshop today appears to be full to the gills. Congratulations!!! And if anyone’s planning on not making it on short notice (I’m about 15 minutes away), I would be very grateful for a direct email to me at michiko @ michiko.com to let me know, in the hopes that I may be able to join and learn more to the next level. Thank you either way!

Thank you again for the inspiration, and I hope those of you attending today get to enjoy the potential of this too – it’s still all so new and exciting and I’d love to see where this can lead for each of us!

Best, Michiko

Thank you so much for offering this workshop. I now feel better about creating my website and being able to interact with clients and potential clients.

Ramona Lynne

This was so informative and I am ready to roll with a new wordpress site as soon as I can some up with a great business name.

Sherri Hensen

Ok Jesse, guess I’ll make the comment about Christine “bringing the house down.” Christine, you did a fab job, thanks so much. Wish I could have stayed after and chatted with you. Maybe next time.

Nancy LeMont

Love to see this class is full! Love wordpress! Great Job Christine!

Diana Bourgeois

Christine, your workshop was awesome and the information you shared was over-the-top!

Lamar

Thanks again for a very informative and motivating event. I am much more encouraged to switch over to the latest WordPress version. It’s infinitely more flexible and dynamic. I look forward to NINGing next.

Myrna Hoffman

I was so jazzed after taking your workshop today Christine that I blew off the whole entire rest of my day so I could go home and apply all that I learned to my blog. What I quickly learned is that you made it look so easy and I continued to struggle. What’s up with that? I’ll be calling you when I get back from vacation in a week.

BjR

Christine, I’ve been to a bunch of Biznik events and your event this morning was one of the best. It seemed that everyone left excited, enthusiastic, and even empowered by what you covered in 90 minutes (OK, 120 minutes because we couldn’t stop talking). And your offer to the Biznik community is incredible.

Suzanne Melton

Many thanks, Christine, for your wonderful presentation today. I certainly learned a lot about what WordPress is capable of doing for small businesses that need websites and blogs. I was also impressed with your overall knowledge of WordPress and social media. Would you consider doing an event based around Ning in the future?

Thanks again,

Annika deGroot

First CRM workshop I’ve seen on Biznik – if you are interested in bringing this up to Bellingham, I’ll find you a venue! Looking forward to another date where I can attend, since I have not seen Maximizer for a long time – but am knowledgable about Salesforce.com and others.

Lori

I loved the CRM event – thanks for hosting it. Great refresher on all the things a good CRM program can do and inspired me to fire up my Maximizer program and put it to work!

Mavis Lamb

Thank you! I am so excited to receive my ‘practice’ site to get up to my nect in WordPress. Excellent and very informative!

Barbara

Diane

Best, Diane

Thank you again for sharing your knowledge with us!

Beverly