Anyone building a new website should definitely consider using WordPress as the CMS content management system. For one thing, WordPress is what is known as "open source" software, which means there's no charge for using it. Techies will be aware that it's constructed using PHP (which is a computer language), and a database management system called MySQL. But don't panic, unless you are a coding freak you'll probably never have to know what they do.
The figures change all the time, but it has been worked out that WordPress is used on nearly twenty per cent of the sites on the planet. That's plenty of websites. It has been downloaded more than 28 million times. Happily, this means that if anything needs fixing the world is full of people who may know how to help you via user-groups and forums. Another benefit is that WordPress sites are totally compliant to web rules.
WordPress is a very complex piece of kit, but it's so simple it works just as well for both beginners and experts. The basic version installs with just one click, but if you are keen to get stuck in with some complicated CSS or web coding, you are able to. Another fantastic thing about Wordpress is that it's very hard to screw up provided you keep away from the files with the code in. FYI, they can be accessed via the control panel in a file called Editor.
The chief function of WordPress is as a blog web-log, and that's how Matt Mullenweg designed it. It has now become a catch-all CMS that lets you make a website look just about any way you want it to. This is made possible by the thousands and thousands of themes that have been built for it. Themes let users change the functionality and look of a WordPress website or installation without changing the informational content. Themes can be added via the website's dashboard, or by uploading the theme's elements via an FTP app. Lots are available for free, others cost between $10 and $200. Premium themes I personally rate very highly include Socrates, Zina, Sozan and Jenzoo.
It appears that WordPress websites are loved by Google and Bing and the simple act of using WordPress appears to give you an advantage when it comes to getting high rankings in the search engines. The way WordPress is made means that you can optimize your site quite simply by using in-built components like pinging, making use of heading tags such as H1, H2, H3, and so on, getting stuck into categories and 'tagging', and by the use of keywords in your meta tags. Every one of these is already included as part of the basic infrastructure of WordPress.
On top of that there are WordPress Plug-ins that enable you to extend its capabilities almost infinitely. There are over seventeen thousand plugins capable of making light work of jobs such as adding Facebook "likes", displaying a contact form, preventing spam comments, building search engine sitemaps, adding widgets and putting up Youtube videos. There's not much it seems a plug-in cannot do.
The figures change all the time, but it has been worked out that WordPress is used on nearly twenty per cent of the sites on the planet. That's plenty of websites. It has been downloaded more than 28 million times. Happily, this means that if anything needs fixing the world is full of people who may know how to help you via user-groups and forums. Another benefit is that WordPress sites are totally compliant to web rules.
WordPress is a very complex piece of kit, but it's so simple it works just as well for both beginners and experts. The basic version installs with just one click, but if you are keen to get stuck in with some complicated CSS or web coding, you are able to. Another fantastic thing about Wordpress is that it's very hard to screw up provided you keep away from the files with the code in. FYI, they can be accessed via the control panel in a file called Editor.
The chief function of WordPress is as a blog web-log, and that's how Matt Mullenweg designed it. It has now become a catch-all CMS that lets you make a website look just about any way you want it to. This is made possible by the thousands and thousands of themes that have been built for it. Themes let users change the functionality and look of a WordPress website or installation without changing the informational content. Themes can be added via the website's dashboard, or by uploading the theme's elements via an FTP app. Lots are available for free, others cost between $10 and $200. Premium themes I personally rate very highly include Socrates, Zina, Sozan and Jenzoo.
It appears that WordPress websites are loved by Google and Bing and the simple act of using WordPress appears to give you an advantage when it comes to getting high rankings in the search engines. The way WordPress is made means that you can optimize your site quite simply by using in-built components like pinging, making use of heading tags such as H1, H2, H3, and so on, getting stuck into categories and 'tagging', and by the use of keywords in your meta tags. Every one of these is already included as part of the basic infrastructure of WordPress.
On top of that there are WordPress Plug-ins that enable you to extend its capabilities almost infinitely. There are over seventeen thousand plugins capable of making light work of jobs such as adding Facebook "likes", displaying a contact form, preventing spam comments, building search engine sitemaps, adding widgets and putting up Youtube videos. There's not much it seems a plug-in cannot do.
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