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Andreas Wenning is a Bachelor in IT and Telecommunications from Denmark, and is skilled in programming concepts, network routing and security, mobility, mobile networks, and wireless transmission. These skills are getting enhanced further with his studies for a Master's degree in Telecommunication.

He has been working for a web hosting company and has extensive experience with web applications from making them easily deployable. From supporting those applications he also knows the caveats and pitfalls when deploying.

He is also involved in the Kubuntu/Ubuntu Linux community, and has been appointed "Master of the Universe" with commit rights to community-supported packages. Here he has also been providing security updates for some of the included web applications.

Through his own company Awen.dk he has been and is providing services and consulting within these experiences; this also includes server deployment and custom integration of systems built on open source technologies.

Dominique-Alain Jan is a long time technologist who started with IT at the age of 16, programming his first Commodore 64 and then his Apple II and Macintosh in the eighties.

He has a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Law of the Fribourg's University (Switzerland), a Master's degree in Computer Science of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), and he is finishing a Master of Art in Distance and Open Education from The Open University (UK).

As an educator and consultant in communication for his political party during the last election, Dominique-Alain has a wide experience with Wordpress, Wordpress MU, and blogging in general.

Nowadays, he is sharing his time as e-learning consultant in the UK, France, and Australia, as a technology teacher at a High School, and at the Teacher Training School in the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

I would like to dedicate this book to my mother, Lucinda. Thank you for all of your love, friendship, and support. You are, without a doubt, the best mother, and friend, that I could have ever hoped to have.

Sure, WordPress can be used for blogging, but this powerful software is capable of so much more. With the right combination of plugins, themes, customizations, and configurations WordPress can be transformed into a community portal, an e-commerce site, and more. There's very little that WordPress can't doif you can image it, then it's probably possible with WordPress.

While some books merely talk about the capabilities of WordPress in general and then leave you to figure out how they apply to your situation, WordPress 3 Site Blueprints takes a different approach. As you follow along, you will learn by doing, because each of these nine chapters shows you how to build a WordPress-powered site from start to finish.

Each chapter provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions, along with screenshots, to make it easy for you to follow along. In addition, detailed information is provided to help you optimally configure each and every plugin and theme mentioned in this book, so that you can get the most out of each of these sites. By the time you reach the end of each blueprint, you will have succeeded in creating a fully-functional website that's ready for use as is or that you may customize further, if you so desire.