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Why Use Wordpress?
With website technology changing daily, choosing the right software that organizes and runs a website is important. Wordpress is a simple, expandable, online publishing platform and CMS (content management system) that runs many popular websites including CNN, Playstation and the New York Times. View more notable Wordpress sites.
More good reasons to use Wordpress for building your new website:
- Open Source Software
WordPress is an Open Source software built on PHP/MySQL and licensed under GPL. - User Friendly
The administration section is easy to navigate and edit your website content. - Templates
There are thousands of free themes to choose from. Visit the Wordpress template library. - Plugins Extend Functionality
WordPress plugins allow you to do add special functionality to your website. The most popular plugins address the following items:- RSS feed
Calendar
Contact form
Podcasting
Shopping cart
Events schedule
Twitter feeds
Search Engine Optimization
Google Anaylitics
Mobile friendly
Visit the Wordpress plugins library.
- Standards Compliant
WordPress follows all the Web Standards and keeps your website compliant to all the rules that have to be followed when running a website. - SEO Friendly
Search Engines have to be definitely kept in mind when building a website. WordPress uses different functions which allow it to be search engine friendly.
During the last 12 months, all of my work website projects are Wordpress powered sites.
Recommended Website Hosting Service
I recommend using BlueHost for hosting your website.
BlueHost is trusted by over 740,000 domain owners and includes the following:
- Unlimited storage space
- Unlimited bandwidth transfer
- 24/7 support, live chat support, toll free phone
- Free domain name
- Host unlimited domains
- Cpanel with Fantastico, ecommerce, RoR, Joomla, Drupal, Email, ftp, MySQL, PHP 5, FastCGI & more
- $6.95 per month
Best of all, BlueHost’s customer service is extremely helpful and can be reached live on its toll-free telephone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
I have successfully relied on BlueHost services since 2005.
“TO DO” List for Starting Website
When you are ready to start, please email me the following items:
- Website goal – What do you want your website to do for you?
- Domain name & hosting service login information
- Logo / photos / colors
- Power Point slides with content (Remember people “scan” websites…don’t pack in long paragraphs. Read writing for the web tips
- List additional website components. View Wordpress plugins
- Choose preferred layout from these template examples:
- Wordpress themes
- Smashing Magazine
- or send url addresses of sites you like, along with your comments
- Learn how to edit pages, with a phone tutorial from Carol if needed
- Our goal will be to launch your new website within 2 weeks of the start date.
Submit Your Website to Search Engines
Help the search engines find your website by submitting your web address (ex. http://www.yourwebsite.com/) to the following services:
The key to getting into the Google index and staying in the index is “backlinks” from other sites.
Remember to add your new website address to your email signature and social networking accounts like FaceBook, Twitter & LinkedIn.
