Business & Tech

Fairfield U Grad Wants to Help You 'Illuminate' the Web

Illuminate WP, founded by former Stag Clint Warren, offers workshops, meet-ups, webinars, and seminars to help people create their own WordPress blogs and websites.

Clint Warren wants to help you blog.

From there, grow your business, pursue your passion, or further whatever the reason was you decided to start a blog or build a website in the first place.

The WordPress developer and web designer recently launched Illuminate WP, a Westport-based company dedicated to instructing how best to use Wordpress for web design and blogging, complete with meet-ups, seminars, and webinars.

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Warren, Illuminate WP's founder and head instructor, will customize a client's learning experience based on why they decided to create a blog or website.

"Anyone who wants to learn about WordPress is welcome," he said.

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For some people, WordPress might be a new marketing tool for their small business. For others, it's a way to brush up on an in-demand skill to rejoin the workforce. And for some, a WordPress site can be a creative outlet.  

While Warren will craft your journey with WordPress based on your needs, he especially enjoys lending a hand to small business owners.  

"I'm passionate about educating and empowering small businesses with WordPress," Warren said -- and he's got the business background and knack for web design to prove it.

After graduating from Fairfield University with a degree in international business, Warren spent three and a half years on the sales team at the Lewis Group. All the while, he was maintaining his hobby of building websites -- something he began pursuing in 1998.

Sometimes his hobby and his work would collide -- he was sometimes tasked with building websites and starting blogs for clients.

He left the Lewis Group in 2010 to pursue both a career as a freelance web designer and as a personal trainer and yoga instructor. The web design took off -- and so did the demand for people to learn WordPress. So launching Illuminate WP became the next step.

The first Illuminate WP meet-up/workshop is slated for Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Stamford Innovation Center. Those interested can sign up and learn more at the Illuminate WP website.

Warren has been asked how he'll measure success with the workshops. His answer?

"If one person walks away with having learned something -- it's worth every penny."


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