tedx it tools

TEDx IT Tools

Ashraf AlhaddadTEDxPortsudan LicenseeCEO, Orange EngineeringMob. 00249914422009

Build your own TEDx websitein 1 hour with (almost all) free tools

STEP 0 / Read the guideline

• Do not purchase a domain name until your license has been approved

• The .com top-level domain should be your first choice• Your site needs to include information about your live

speakers, a description of your venue, the date and location of your event, and information about TEDx and TED.

STEP 1 / Draft your content

Home : Mission About : Team, What is TEDx? About TED,,Events : Date, Location, Ticket informationSpeakers : Photo, name, blurb descriptionProgram : Time / Place for each sessionTalks : videos, photos

STEP 2 / Set up your site (yes, it’s WordPress)

You can get pretty far using the Wordpress blog account to build a TEDx website.

STEP 3 / Theme 101

A Wordpress “theme” is a website visual template that governs most of what your website will look likestructurally. Picking the right theme is very important. Just because you see something pretty doesn’t alwaysmean it will work for you. The website is not a “blog” or a “store front” or a “portfolio”. Themes designedspecifically for these will not work.

STEP 4 / Hello world

In software development, the very first piece of code a developer writes in any language on any platform istypically referred to “hello world”. It basically means “just get the system to spit out a text that says “hello world””.Once you can master that, you can move on to bigger, better things.

STEP 5 / Page, Post, and Category

Pages are content items that stay evergreen for a while. Things like the About page.Posts are content items that you’ll write regularly. Things like speakers, events, and maybe even news items (inthe form of blog posts).

STEP 6 / Make a site header logo

Get your TEDx logo generated at http://www.tedx-sandiego.com/creator/. Huge thanks to TEDxCMU forcreating the tool and TEDxSandiego for hosting.• Right-click to save the logo on white background on to your computer.

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