How to build a budget news website
How to build a budget news website
Tools to get you started and tips from those who have succeeded
About the Book
About the Author
About the Contributors
Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Leeds Trinity University
Course Leader for Journalism, Leeds Trinity University
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
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Introduction
- Online Journalism at Leeds Trinity
- The purpose of this book
- Chapter One - How do I get started?
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Chapter Two - Setting up a Wordpress.org blog
- The technical part - Stage 1: Creating a database
- Stage 2: Manually Installing Wordpress
- Stage 3: Ensuring your domain points to the Wordpress folder
- Stage 4: Creating a configuration file
- Stage 5: Naming your site
- Chapter Three - Setting up a Wordpress.com blog
- Chapter Four - Writing your first post
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Chapter Five - Building an audience for your content
- The ‘ideal’ post
- Presenting content online
- Using Creative Commons images
- Alternative ways of using your content
- How do I go viral?
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Chapter Six - Plugins and Widgets
- Widgets
- Your Widget hitlist
- Plugins
- Your Plugin hitlist
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Chapter Seven - Free multimedia tools
- Visual tools
- Audio Tools
- Data tools
- Other tools
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Chapter Eight - Your secret weapon: A smartphone
- Apps
- Recording Audio
- Taking pictures on your iPhone
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Chapter Nine - Using your phone to take images and produce video
- Filming on your iPhone
- Editing your footage using iMovie
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Chapter Ten - Building your audience through social media
- Using Twitter to build an audience
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Summary
- Reading List
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