Have you heard of wordpress?
If not “where have you been!”, if so “Great”
Wordpress is a great blog and publishing platform. It is easy to install, requires a MySql database, and takes no longer than 5 minutes to install. What a pleasure!
Designing the website is the next hurdle, previously it was a hurdle as a designer would need to be hired or it usually meant many hours of coding to get right. Well, not anymore, themes can be downloaded for free from many area including wordpress.org.
Plugins and widgets can be used to add extra functionality to your website, including stats, polls, image galleries, spam protection and more…. So your website is very flexible in this regard.
Updating the website was also previously a headache, but all it means with wordpress is, logging onto the wordpress dashboard and writing a post, cool hey!!
There are many themes available for many areas of interest, but most interesting is the move of wordpress into the CMS and business environment, adding real value to businesses but without looking like a blog or “old school” website. look at this example
Wordpress have gone one step further and introduced a multi user version called WPMU, it’s open source and allows you to host multiple blogs, form communities like bundublog.com and more…. more info here
As the “facebook” era is upon us. the Automattic team have also modified a WPMU install to be an “Open Source Social Networking Platform” called buddypress. This opens up many areas for business ideas but also allows WPMU users to add extra functionality to their current offering… get more info here
I hope that you found this post usefull - happy blogging
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