1. Setting up Wordpress Directions Creating an account Lost your password? Finding your dashboard Changing the background theme Adding the Images page Making the Images page the homepage Setting up Categories

2. Log into Wordpress.com click the get started button

3. Fill in email address username password blog address click Create blog

4. CHECK YOUR EMAIL Wordpress will send you an email This email is important It ACTIVATES you account

5. 1. go to wordpress login pagewordpress login page 2. Bookmark the login page

6. Go to wordpress.com Log into your Wordpress Account If you forget your password Click on Lost your password? And wordpress will send you an email to reset it

7. CLICK the gray and white avatar placeholder

8. This is your dashboard Where you will set up and change: - page theme, widgets/categories, posts, etc.

9. Go to Appearance < themes

10. Type coraline in the search box Under the coraline page image, click Activate if no search box is available, SEE NEXT SLIDE Activate

11. if no search box is available, select any template, then change the template to CORALINE by entering CORALINE into search field

12. Go to < Pages < Add New

13. 1. Title the page Images 2. Click Publish

14. Go to < Settings < Reading check a static page < Front page Images Images

15. Go to Posts < Categories < Add New

16. category name work in progress Click add new category