Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Wordpress is the most versatile and easy to use.
I use Wordpresss for all of the sites I build, except the very specialized ones. Here’s an article that backs me up. I’ve used all of the editors and other CMSs and I think Wordpress is the most versatile and easy to use. If you want to keep your site updated regularly, and who doesn’t?, then you should be using Wordpress. I’m not sure you should ever pay for a theme, since they can all be customized, but it might work best for you.
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WordPress - It’s Not Just for Bloggers Anymore
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I’ve been a webmaster for over 12 years. And in that time I’ve used just about every HTML editor, CMS and page generator that was ever released.
Today, I use WordPress to develop 99.5 percent of the website projects I work on. The SEO, Web 2.0 and content management features make it so easy to deploy and market websites there’s really no need to use anything else. Almost anything you could want from a website can be easily plugged into WordPress.
With WordPress you can edit your website from any computer with an Internet connection. Change and add content, navigation, interactive features or even modify the design of the entire site in a matter of minutes. You can do it on a Mac, a PC or even a Linux box. It doesn’t matter because it’s all done over the web.
No more hassling with expensive software and updates. Everything you need is built in.
You’ll notice I’m using the word “websites” and not “blogs”.
“But I thought WordPress was blogging software?” you ask.
It is blogging software. Arguably the best blogging platform in the known universe. But, it can also be used as a robust content management system with or without blogging features enabled.
Imagine being able to give your secretary or assistant the login to your WordPress site and him being able to update content, add pages and upload photos in less time than it takes you to go to Starbucks and back.
Do you know how many hours I’ve spent training administrative assistants and church secretaries on how to use Dream Weaver or Front Page to update their websites? More than I care to remember. The sad fact is that most of those sites were never really kept up-to-date and therefore never really lived up to their full potential.
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Wordpress is a system that allows you to manage your content.
Wordpress is a system that allows you to manage your content. You might call it a content management system, or CMS, but only if you cared about this stuff. It’s a system built on a bunch of files that talk to a database. Sorry if that’s too technical for you. There are a bunch of people working on it, making it better. Because you, or someone who cares, can see what those files have in them, it’s called “open source”, where the “source” of the system, the files, is “open”.
It’s possible to go to http://www.wordpress.org and download the whole bucket of files and install them on your own web server. If you were a programmer or a developer, you could change them and do whatever you wanted to with them.
So, if you spent all of your time to build this really cool new CMS thing, but you just give it away to everyone for free, how would you ever make any money from it? If you’re smart, you create a hosting company that lets people use it for themselves and then charges those people for add on special features. This means that you can get a free web site using Wordpress for your very own small business. You’ve heard the phrase “The first one’s free”? It’s like that.
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
What else do people want to know when they come to your site? Prices? I don’t want to hear your sales pitch. I want to know what it costs. Then maybe I’ll check your features and benefits. I know you want to tell everyone how great you are, but no one cares what you want. We only care what we want, so give it to us and we’ll be happy. Prices, products, descriptions, features, locations, sizes, colors, styles, services, recommendations, photos, support, downloads, a way to yell at you. Just give us what we want.
Now, do you have the list of buckets written out? (This is different than that movie, the Bucket List. This is a list of buckets.) On to getting that information into the CMS. (Did you remember what that stands for? Good. I’m proud of you.)
Wordpress started out as a blogging platform, so it was built around “posts”. Things that you wrote every day, that were displayed in chronological order and disappeared off the front page as you wrote newer posts. You don’t want that (for now anyway. I’ll talk to you into a blog later.) What you want are static pages that stay where they are and are always in the same place. No chrono-nothing to do with these. Well, Wordpress calls these, (wait for it), “pages”. A “page” is different than a “post” in Wordpress in how and where they are displayed. Similar, but different.
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Develop the site. Use a CMS if you can and you can. Flat sites are so 1998.
DO NOT DO ANY BUSINESS WITH NETWORK SOLUTIONS!.
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