“Hi, my name is Tris, and I hate to code.”
(His Presentation Slides)

How to use WP to make a great website.
- content and design are divorced from each other
- fiddle with theme without messing up the content
- what situation in which would you use WP for a “normal” site:

Step 1: Make two pages
- Home page: Call it what you want, use lorem ipsum
- Make Plain page

Tweaks
- make those permalinks pretty!
—settings > permalinks
—I like /%postname%/ for websites - important for SEO
—.htaccess will have to be updated
- Not “Just another wordpress blog” - don’t forget to change this!

Basic Website Needed Plugins
- All in one SEO — flips postnames with blognames so that search engines can index your posts and not your blog name.
- WP supercache
- WP Backup - best backup plugin
- Google Sitemaps XML - creates sitemap every time a new post is made, makes them obvious to search engines. Creates table of contents for the whole site. Creates two files
- pingbacks notify the
- Akismet - requires wordpress.com API key but if commercial, you should buy it.
- Cform -
- WPTouch & WPMobile - make your blog browsable by all of the mobile masses.

Look for a template that doesn’t look like a blog - something plain and simple.
- (piece of code to get from the presentation)
- look for themes that look more “site-y” *I liked Monochrome Demo, Revolution (v. newspaper), & Thesis.