Get to know Christina Hills, the creator of the Website Creation Workshop in today’s speaker interview.

Christina has been passionately teaching non-techie small business owners, authors, experts, coaches and consultants, how to easily create their websites in WordPress so that they can get their message out to the world. She puts the fun into teaching technology and empowers business owners to be in full control of their marketing and online presence. She has been running her WordPress training program to an international audience for the past 9 years. She loves to teach WordPress as a creative way to get clarity on your business, your marketing, and your message.

Christina is also an 12-year online marketing veteran, often seen at events as an expert speaker teaching on a variety of topics such as email marketing, membership sites, and ecommerce marketing, all with a focus on WordPress. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Christina Hills worked as a digital artist for the network promotions division of NBC-TV, and then as a senior technical director in the Feature Film Division at George Lucas’s Industrial Light & Magic with film credits for Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and ET the re-release. She now lives near the beach in San Diego, California with her husband and daughter.

What should we know about you that you haven’t included in your brief, third-person, professional biography?

When I was younger, I used to dance for the New York City Ballet in Lincoln Center.

In your professional opinion, which Jurassic Park dinosaur is the scariest?

The Velociraptors of course!

What is the Website Creation Workshop?

It’s an online WordPress training program designed to help non-techie business owners create their own WordPress websites themselves without having to hire a web developer. It’s not a program to train people to become web designers or developers, instead it’s for the solo entrepreneur: coach, consultant, author, speaker, healer, or other independent professional who want to be creative with WordPress. I’ve been running this online training for over 9 years now and love it!

You’re stuck on a desert island with a laptop, an incredible cell signal from your hotspot, a mysteriously unlimited power source, and only one WordPress theme, which theme do you have and why?

I would say the Divi Theme from Elegant Themes! Because it lets the person who is not a designer, create beautiful image rich websites without having to know how to code.

What one thing do all WordPress users need to know about themes which will, without a doubt, save the metaphoric lives of their future WordPress sites?

Be careful if you hire a designer to build you a custom theme. If that designer disappears on you and if they didn’t code the theme properly, you could be in for a disaster once WordPress has a major update. That’s why I recommend off the shelf themes for beginners who are on a small budget.

Also, expect that you will be changing themes about once every couple of years. You will get tired of your layout and design and will want something new. It’s part of the process and does not mean that anything is wrong. Themes grow and change as WordPress grows and change 🙂

Come meet Christina at WordCamp Los Angeles 2016 where she’ll be presenting on How to Pick a WordPress Theme for Beginners.