Katikamu SDA Secondary School on Sunday 1st March 2020 hosted its first ever WordPress meetup. The meetup on the theme: An Introduction to WordPress: Build Your First Website was organised as an outreach by the Jinja WordPress meetup which is led by ITAU’s Rogers Mukalele.
The meetup which started at 9:00 am was facilitated by 2 WordPress enthusiasts, Moses Sebunya and Stephen Dumba. The meetup which attracted 10 people include 6 teachers and 3 students was held in the Computer Lab of the grand school.
This particular meetup was the initiative of Mr. Mawunde Daniel Paul, a teacher at Katikamu SDA SS who had earlier attended WordCamp Kampala in December 2019. Having missed day one of that WordCamp, Mr. Mawunde sought the help of Dumba Stephen who was one of the facilitators. It was this engagement that led to this particular outreach.
On arrival, Moses Sebunya and Dumba Stephen were shown around the Wi-Fi connected computer lab by Mr. Lubega Godfrey a veteran teacher also at Katikamu SDA Secondary School. The day’s facilitators were then introduced to the school administration as the guests for the day.
Each of the participants were given a free domain and hosting courtesy of E-zone Web Services, one of Uganda’s most preferred Web Design and Hosting companies. In this particular meetup, participants were to learn web design using live sites
Stephen Dumba, the first speaker at the meetup took participants through the need for learning web design, the current trends in web design and why WordPress was the preferred CMS. He went on to brief them about hosting an domains.
Moses Sebunya, the day’s other speaker took participants through the steps of logging into WordPress, choosing themes, creating pages and menus. By lunch time, every participant had a site with at least a well built page.
Would you like to learn WordPress?
If you have basic computer skills, it takes you only a day of training for you to design a decent website. You can signup for this meetup to get updates on where the next training will be.
Alternatively you may call Stephen on +256 772 111 223, Rogers on +256 776 960 740 or Moses on +256 788 157 313 as long as you have a venue and a date booked for this one day training.
