Boot-up
Follow-up from Paul’s discussion on WiFi
Anything else, issues, problems
Paul advised that you can add a mobile to your Telephone Preference Service – something I didn’t know(TPS)
Presenter for 13th June; and early warning about next year and start to sessions in September/October
Support for General Meeting 9th July,
Chris Higley: Maps of Wales and Maps of War.
News
Deferred to the next session, unless members have some news they want to share, which I’ll record here.
Last session ended with – Getting into the Web
Here is the text copied from the March 14th post.
Creating a website, the easiest way possible, using WordPress – Getting started tutorials.
Let’s setup a website in WordPress, that you can all play with. We’ll call it CFU3APlaySite, I’ll create a single user (who will be an administrator – so you’ll have all the powers to do anything and everything with the site – even delete it!) called DIHU3A, with the password Ca3rdyddU3A – that should be familiar. Let’s set it up and import some content from the old Google+ Community – which has now been imported into this site (hurrah!!!!).
Your mission (should you choose to accept it) … create a website in WordPress for four weeks time!
I then sent round this email revising the above instructions …
I really didn’t have enough time on Thursday to tell you too much about how to “do your homework” for my next session with you on 11th April. I managed to demo creating a website (blog) on WordPress.com, but really nothing much more than that. If you want to “play” with the site created – here is the URL for it, and a UserID and Password you can use.
https://cardiffu3a.wordpress.com
[NB This is different from the address I created in the demo.]
with a UserID of ‘dihu3a‘ and a password ‘Ca3rdyddU3A‘ which you can use to login to the Dashboard for the site at https://cardiffu3a.wordpress.com/wp-admin
The only thing I’d ask you not to do is to change the Password for this User, as that will prevent anybody else from using the site. Otherwise, edit posts, add tags, change titles, delete posts – anything you like, realising that anybody else can do the same!!!
It’s a play site. The content is safely stored on the Thought grazing site, so you can’t damage anything.
Then if you’d like to try and set up your own website, just go to https://wordpress.com and follow the prompts. At this stage, just look to create a free site, you can always change to a paid-for site at a later time.
Somebody had a try at adding content to the play site – last night – really confused me because I’d forgotten the email I’d sent round (duh!!). Well done, whoever you were, but now it’s time (with a little more time to take it gently) to …
Let’s do it!
Volunteer step forward please!
… for Cardiff u3a