Do you have your own internet domain and some experience managing / using it?? Good! We’d like it if you can share with participants in Ontario Extend Domain Camp some wisdom from your experience – specifically, what led you to choose to manage your own domain? How do you use it? Interview your domain with these questions!… Read more »
Domain Camp Activities
There sure are a lot of moving parts to managing a domain of your own. This camp experience (which is open any time of year) will lead you through activities to become more familiar with cpanel, subdomains, web redirects, installing applications on a Domain of One's Own.
What’s In a Domain Name?






Difficulty: 1 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Alan Levine • 710 views • 11 responses
Before one even starts learning how to manage an internet domain of their own, they face the step of choosing a name for what will be their street address on the internet. What should be on the left some of “something” dot “something” as one’s own internet address? Some people stick with something close to… Read more »
Building a WordPress Syndication Hub






Difficulty: 5 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Alan Levine • 1052 views • 2 responses
One way of teaching via a connected learning approach is that learners do their work in digital spaces outside of the course site and the institution owned servers but in personal hosted blogs (Domains of Ones Own), free hosted blogs, and social media sites. A connected course type hub we can build is in a… Read more »
Trying on a New WordPress Theme






Difficulty: 3 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Alan Levine • 1122 views • 3 responses
Newly installed WordPress sites come with a theme or a template designed by the makers of the software. There’s nothing wrong with those themes. But because of the way WordPress works, you can try on a different design without losing a single bit of content. The mechanics of changing themes are easy; the harder part… Read more »
Plugging in WordPress Plugins






Difficulty: 2 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Alan Levine • 1188 views • 3 responses
Among the many reasons to run your own WordPress blog in you domain rather than opting for the easy path of letting them do the work for you at WordPress.com is the ability to add additional functionality from WordPress Plugins. With over 56,000 ones available from the WordPress installer (and even more that you can… Read more »
Setting Out Your WordPress Menus






Difficulty: 2 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Alan Levine • 1077 views • 3 responses
As your WordPress sites grow in content and complexity, building out navigation menus offers a way to make it easier for your site visitors to navigate your site. The WordPress menu editor provides a lot of flexibility for setting out a fine menu. The ways menus are used will depend on the theme you are… Read more »
Wrangling WordPress Permalinks






Difficulty: 2 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Alan Levine • 1185 views • 4 responses
Knowing how WordPress creates it’s own URLs may not be essential to know for general use, but it does give you an edge in understanding how it manages content. As a starter, note that as a database, all items in WordPress- posts, pages, uploaded media, categories, tags, all are tracked in the database by a… Read more »
Organizing Your WordPress Site With Categories and Tags






Difficulty: 3 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Alan Levine • 828 views • 3 responses
WordPress offers two powerful ways to organize your site content. We suggest setting up a system / approach for doing this from the start. There is no one “right” way to organize your blog, and you can always modify and change as you use it more. But if you start using categories and tags, you… Read more »
Adjusting a Few Key Settings in WordPress






Difficulty: 1 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Alan Levine • 1274 views • 4 responses
In a new WordPress site you first want to twiddle a few knobs and enter some settings that will make your blog engine run smoothly. Keep in mind these can be modified at anytime, but for a few of them, it’s better to do this before we start writing anything. In your dashboard find the… Read more »
LimeSurvey in Your Domain






Difficulty: 4 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Irene Stewart • 898 views • 0 responses
LimeSurvey allows you to administer and manage the data for web-bases surveys. I found it easy install but a bit of work to figure out how to create and publish a survey To set it up, I selected LimeSurvey from the selection of All Apps in the CPanel. Before you begin, decide if you want… Read more »