What is WordPress?

WordPress is an Open Source Blogging platform. It was created in 2003 and since then has held it’s ground claiming hundreds of millions of users world wide.

Wordpress has grown far beyond a blogging platform, the constant contributions of widgets, plugins and scripts have made WordPress a Powerful platform for creating feature rich websites and e-Commerce sites.

The possibilities for personal or professional use seem to be never ending as new applications are always being created.

One of my favorite things about WordPress is the ease of use. A quick hour tutorial will give you more then just the basics of how to use and create with WordPress.

I started using WordPress with limited knowledge on creating websites. And I was actually very pleased with how easy it was to Pick a theme, change themes, add pages, add categories, upload images, add media, use permalinks add products, manipulate themes to look less “bloggy”, and to create a fully functional, feature rich website!

WordPress has a huge arsenal of plugins which allow you to add things like Evens Calendars, become Search Engine Optimized, create polls, monitor your website or blog Stats, connect with Twitter, add interactive maps, have multiple emails, have a multilingual website or blog, add games, create slide shows, display images with a light box effect, add a BMI Calculator, Use Real Estate Tools, add Captcha, integrate PayPal payments, create a social community, add news feeds, add contact forms, view your blog or website with your i-phone, Add SMS Texting and so much more…

WordPress also offers support forums in case you have any issues. It takes a little reading sometimes to find the answer and if after posting and reading in the WordPress forums, you are still unable to find the answer you are looking for, you have the option of directly contacting the creator of a given plugin or widget for help.

If you are not familiar with WordPress there are avenues to find someone to help you. You can find a WordPress solution company or a freelancer to assist you.

Over all WordPress lives up to the hype and I recommend it not only for personal use, home based business or small business. I believe it has the capability and functions to preform as well as the high priced websites offered by other companies.

Based on the hugely popular Drupal CMS, Site prebuilder brings a range of world class, open source websites – ready to use – absolutely free. Getting your own eCommerce store is now as easy as clicking a download button. Everything is geared for people with little to no technical know-how.

Sure, you’ve heard this all before. It’s free but plastered in ads, or, its free but I’ve got to host it on your servers…

Actually, that’s not the case. Because it’s built on free, open source software, site prebuilder has in turn made the sites free and open source. There’s no hidden charges, no ads, nothing. You can download the site and it’s yours – you own it. Host it wherever you like.

You don’t need to know programming and the sites are built to world class standards and the same technology is used by the White house, the British governments, Reuters, Harvard university, Eric Clapton, Robbie Williams, Mattel and many many more, for their websites.

What’s the catch? There’s always a catch…

Well, you still have to upload a site logo, type in your site’s name and change the color scheme to something you prefer from the default arrangement – the color scheme can be controlled using point and click on one of those color palette thingys. So there’s a little bit of work for you to do.

Obviously, if you’re setting up an ecommerce site you would also have to have an account with a credit provider such as PayPal, but other than that you’re ready to go.

Site-prebuilder does offer a number of presentations and helpful documentation to get you going too, and since the site is based on Drupal, you get the full benefit of the Drupal support forums and other documentation, which, of course, are also freely available.

If you need a website, for yourself or your business; something that is powerful, reliable, flexible and completely under your control, then this is your first and only real option.