Wordpress – the Ultimate Blog Software
June 22, 2009 by Stephen Grisham Sr.
Filed under Website Design
It’s wise to start your blog on a good note. It’s difficult to change direction and start over again once you have it going. Blogging for free? When you get something for free, the quality might be lacking.
Pay for website hosting for your blog if you can afford it and verify that your server can support Wordpress.
When you are trying to choose the hosting company to host your blog, make sure that WordPress and Fantastico are included with your hosting package, unless you are quite computer savvy. Fantastico will instantly install Wordpress. The other option is the difficult task of downloading and installing Wordpress yourself, which is not something that is recommended for a novice.
Wordpress does not require you to be a programmer to use it. In just a matter of minutes, you can “take it out of the box” and start blogging.
What makes WordPress better then other software for blogging? WordPress is the best. It has been here for a while. A wide variety of themes are available through the WordPress library. (Themes can alter the appearance and feel of your blog.) It is not necessary to know how to design or code unless you want to make a change to any functionality that cannot be done with “out of the box” plug-ins.
Plug Ins: You can add things to your blog with plug-ins. If you know PHP, you can make your own or you can select third-party plug-ins. The WordPress website offers plug-ins. There are quite a few of them and they do everything you can imagine — there is even a plug-in that will generate an XML sitemap of your site for Google.
You can have total administrative control over your blog with Wordpress. You have endless options and few restrictions. The user management for Wordpress is excellent. For instance, articles can be written by authors; upon approval, editors can publish those articles; administrators can alter the design of the blog.
Don’t waste your time, only to have to destroy all of your hard work and move it Wordpress.
