Many people, including myself, view WordPress as one of the best website opportunities for small businesses and individuals.  WordPress is a free, open source (meaning that you can access and change your website’s code) platform.  It’s the step between the server/host (where your website’s information is stored) and the website’s theme (the design people see when they visit your site).

For web designers and those who have knowledge of computer coding, the WordPress’s open source approach is enough of an invitation.  But for those who don’t want – or don’t have the time – to learn computer coding language (such as HTML, CSS, and Php…), WordPress created something else.  In order to provide most anyone access to their own website’s content, they designed a dynamic Content Management System (a CMS).

And it’s this Content Management System that many of us believe is the future of website ownership and management.  It’s like the difference between the “old days” of computers– the times when we (well, those of us who are beyond our 20′s) had to type in a code to ask our computers to do something — and now.

With the WordPress CMS, you can create, edit, or delete content on your website with the same level of knowledge it takes to navigate the web, send emails, and use a computer word processing program.  When you log on to your WordPress website, you’ll see a whole editing system where you can type in new text, change or delete text, change colors, add photos, create new website pages, or delete old pages with outdated information.

Since these are the early days of Content Management Systems (and most agree WordPress’s version is the most robust out there), there are limitations at first glance.  But the more you work with WordPress, the more you understand how to overcome the limitations and create truly custom content and designs.  This is why I offer training as part of my website design  services — it will help jump-start your experience.

Please let me know if you’re interested or if you have any questions.

By the way, did you know that the New York Times uses WordPress?