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One of the best things about Wordpress is that it's open source software which means that it's freely

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available for anyone to create websites and sell them to clients.

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All the tools you need for this course are also freely available as long as you have a computer and

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internet access.

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Let's take a look.

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In this video you'll learn a few different options for the tools needed to complete this course.

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You probably already have most of them and the rest can be obtained easily; inexpensively or for free.

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By the end you'll have everything you need in one place to complete the course and create a WordPress

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website business of your own.

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First you'll need a computer with internet access.

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This could be a Windows machine or a Mac.

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And while we'll be doing a lot of our website development off line using a local environment you'll

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also need internet access.

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We will be using the worldwide web to download the tools and resources needed to build a complete business

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as well as to develop and present websites live on the Internet.

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On your computer you'll need a modern browser that delivers websites and connects to the Internet using

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the latest protocols.

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I recommend having both Mozilla Firefox as I'm showing here and Google Chrome installed as we will be

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using each with some of our specific tools.

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Safari on the Mac is also a good modern browser.

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Well Internet Explorer for Windows is nice to have for testing your final websites as a part of your

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process to make sure your sites work on all devices and browsers.

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We won't be using it for website development itself.

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Your computer most likely has a text editor included in the operating system like notepad on Windows

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and textedit on the Mac.

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You can use these but there are also some free code editors you can use that make it a little easier

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to read.

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The files will be editing these code editors use syntax highlighting and monitor code formatting for

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this purpose.

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Check out notepad plus plus for Windows text wrangler for the Mac and add them on both platforms.

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If T-P stands for file transfer protocol and will use one of these programs to upload and download files

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from the Internet in our local environment you can just use Windows Explorer pictured here or finder

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on the Mac to transfer files to and from the local server on your computer.

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But within hosting programs and internet servers you'll need to use NFTE program and there are many

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free options.

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I recommend fire FGP which is an add on for the Firefox browser or files Zilah a free program available

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for Windows or Mac and finally will need some way to optimize and format pictures graphics and all kinds

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of images for delivery on the web because we want our websites to load fast.

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You'll be learning how to size images and compress them properly so you'll need an image editing program

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like Adobe Photoshop.

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I prefer Photoshop but it does cost money.

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You can get it for 1995 a month at this time but if you don't already have Photoshop there are many

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free options including Apple photos on the Mac.

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I Pycke dotcom is a great web based photo editor.

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GIMP is a longtime free competitor to Adobe Photoshop Google photos which used to be Google Picasa Bixler

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is another good one based on the web photo or is a browser based photo editor and on one effects has

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a free version that is excellent.

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So to recap you've hopefully pause the video a few times and downloaded or found the tools you need

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on your computer.

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If not go ahead and review the info we've covered to get yourself set up and ready to create your website

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business.

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Next we'll be delving deeper into the specifics of what you'll be learning in this course.

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We'll also go over some of the business tools you can use for managing invoices taking payments and

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keeping up with the latest in wordpress and the web design industry.

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See there