Sunday, September 6, 2009

Why You Should Use WordPress To Build Your Next Site

By Michael Penington

If you are reading this article, I am guessing you are interested in building a website. Well then, I think you should use WordPress to build that site. I will tell you the reasons I believe your next site should be powered by WordPress in this article

Firstly, WordPress is easy to use. No matter what site you want to build, you can do it quite easily in WordPress. People use WordPress for all type of site, from your regular blogs to magazine sites and portfolio site. It is also very easy to add new content to WordPress with no html knowledge required.

WordPress has a very short learning curve. It doesnt take too long to learn WordPress, compared to some other content management systems, which are difficult to master. If you ever face any problems in WordPress, you can always turn to the WordPress support community, which is always willing to help

Since WordPress is a blogging platform, if you use it build your site, incase you need to integrate a blog, you wont need to worry at all, since technically the blog is already present!

WordPress is probably the only content management system out there with such a vast array of themes, both free and paid. Another thing about these themes, a lot of them, including the free ones, tends to be top notch. Not to mention that there are themes for specific kind of sites like portfolio sites etc.

Installing WordPress is a breeze. All it takes is one-click. Seriously, since most hosts do offer a one click installation of WordPress. Also, WordPress is the probably the best content management system in terms of search engine optimization. Search engines are known to love sites powered by WordPress.

Lastly, there are tons of Plugins available, to help you further customize your site according to your needs, and to extend WordPress functionality. - 16890

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