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Archive for January, 2010

sticky: learning resources

I’ve been giving the following list of resources to clients and students over the years, to help aid in their learning goals. This list is by no means exhaustive, but it’s a good start. I’ll update this post whenever I come across good resources.

Full disclosure: All of these books listed, except Digging Into WordPress, lead to Amazon.com. None of the Amazon.com links are affiliate links, so I don’t benefit from purchases made through them. I am an affiliate for the Digging Into WordPress book, and I earn a commission from purchases made through the link below.

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the truth about WordPress (and most software)

So, you’re ready to start creating your home on the intarnetwebtubes, and you’ve chosen to use WordPress for building your site because you’ve read that using it is so easy that a computer novice can build their own website in a couple of hours. You may have even read that you don’t need to know anything about HTML, CSS, or PHP to build a “stunning” WordPress website. Then there are the “expert-rockstar-ninjas” who claim they can help you become one as well after a couple of hours of WordPress training.

Don’t believe the hype.

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