Start your website for free - a quick workshop for starting a free website based on WordPress. Presented at http://zero-marketing.com/

1. Start your Website for Free!
Mario Peshev @no_fear_inc
WordPress Engineer DevWP.eu

2. Mario Peshev
• WordPress Engineer @ Placester
• DevirX CTO
• @no_fear_inc
• Trainer and consultant
• Java/PHP/Python background

3. Agenda
• Wix
• Tumblr
• Other platforms
• WordPress.com
• WordPress.org

4. Wix

5. About Wix
“At Wix, we believe everyone
deserves to have their own
stunning website with no coding or
special design skills needed. Better
yet, it should be free!”

6. Features
• 100s beautiful designs
• Drag n’ Drop website builder
• Almost 30M sites
• Support center 24/7
• Wix App Market
• Social Integration
• Reliable hosting

7. Template

8. Template Editor

9. Template Editor (2)

10. The Result

11. Tumblr

12. Tumblr
Top Tumblr websites
“Tumblr lets you effortlessly share
anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links,
music, and videos from your browser, phone,
desktop, email or wherever you happen to be.
You can customize everything, from colors to
your theme’s HTML.”

13. Dashboard

14. Dashboard Editor

15. Dashboard – Theme Editor

16. The Result

17. Other Free Website Services
• WebStartToday.com
• Jimdo
• Weebly
• Moonfruit
• Yola
• http://thethemeblog.com/10-best-
alternatives-to-wix-website-builder/

18. Other Platforms
• WordPress
• Drupal
• Joomla
• e107
• Open Source CMS

19. WordPress
• A powerful and flexible platform
• Over 70 000 000 websites online
• Open Source
• Tens of thousands free and premium
themes/plugins
• Ready for eCommerce, Q&A, Forums, Social
networks, Groupons and more…
• Popular. Yes, Popular.

20. Features
• Simplicity
• Flexibility
• Publishing Tools
• User Management
• Media Management
• Search Engine Optimized
• Easy for Install and Update
• Community

21. WordPress.com

22. Dashboard

23. Settings

24. Posts

25. Pages

26. WordPress.org

27. Themes

28. Plugins

29. Plugins

30. Themes

31. Host Yourself a WordPress

32. Questions?
Tweets as @no_fear_inc
Mario Peshev on LinkedIn
nofearinc on WordPress.org
GitHubering via mpeshev
DevWP.eu - blog