It’s great to see the results of our WordPress training courses, and we have just set up a Customer Showcase section on Pootlepress to feature websites built by our customers. If you would like to be included in this list, please email 50 words and the url of your website to me at jamiemarsland@pootlepress.co.uk.

I’m thrilled to announce my first e-learning course ‘WordPress Essentials’ is now available via our shiny new Pootlepress Academy.

The ‘WordPress Essentials‘ course includes a walk-through of common tasks in WordPress, from installing WordPress onto a self-hosted site, to tutorials on creating content (pages, posts, and widgets), inserting pictures and videos, installing and using plugins, using themes, and incorporating search engine optimization (SEO).

Here are a couple of pictures from yesterday’s WordPress group training day in Manchester. This is our last course in 2011, but new courses for Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Cheltenham are now available. (read more)

A quick list of some of the brands Pootlepress has trained in 2011 include Yell, The Police Federation, Best Western Hotels, Age Concern, Directgov, Devon County Council, Hackney Council, Wandsworth Council, The Bath Film Festival, and Uniliver. (read more)

I am busy putting the final touches to our first WordPress e-learning  video. This will be available pre-Christmas and is based on my ‘learn WordPress …

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Politicians always get into trouble when they use their families to make them look more human. But what the heck, here goes. Say hello to the mini Marsland’s modelling our super new PootlePress t-shirts! (read more)