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Learn best practices while creating your own website

These days, anyone can make a website with the abundance of user-friendly website builders out there. But there’s a difference between having a website and having a great website–one that accomplishes your specific goals by engaging visitors with user-friendly content. This course guides you through a series of activities that will help you build a website using best practices for web design.

The course uses WordPress.com’s free site builder. Brief information regarding other site builders and WordPress.org can be found in the Next Steps module.

This course is designed to be completed as part of a learning circle. Learning circles are free study groups for people who want to take online classes together and in-person. Find out more at p2pu.org.

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