Considering Wordpress?

More and more of the websites that you view everyday are WordPress sites. WordPress is a CMS (content management system) that allows designers and users to more easily update their websites and in turn keep the content up to date. It is also Open Source which for you basically means that the software itself is free.

Primarily it is designed to power weblog style sites, however with every new version, its feature list moves closer to that of a full blown CMS like Joomla. The features are definitely many.

They include a plug-in architecture, and a templating system which offers the opportunity for a high level of customization. More than 12% of the 1,000,000 largest websites utilize WordPress. So, needless to say, it is a widely recognized content management system.

WordPress can be deployed in a number of different ways. Better web hosting companies will provide a service to perform the installation for you or have a feature that allows you to auto-install the basic version of Wordpress yourself. This option is best when used by those who are proficient and technically savvy.

Then there are free hosting services, like WordPress.com that allow users an easy way to setup a WordPress blog without having to install anything on their own server. This is the quickest, cheapest and easiest way to get started with WordPress, however because the installation is not on your own hosted space, you may lose rights to your content and will have limitations to what you can put on your site.

For more details about WordPress installations, web design, or other content management systems, contact Judge Media.  We will help you find the best and most cost efficient solution for your successful website.

Here’s more tech talk about WordPress for those who don’t mind the jargon:

WordPress’s templating system comes with widgets that can be rearranged without editing any confusing code, and themes that can be automatically installed and switched between. The themes also have PHP and HTML code that can be edited for really advanced customizations.

WordPress features integrated link management; a search engine optimized pretty permalink structure and support for tagging of posts and articles. It also has filters that provide proper formatting and styling of articles. WordPress’s rich plugn design gives its users the opportunity to broaden its functionality far beyond the features that are in the base install. All of this makes for a very strong piece of software.

Judge Media provides WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and several other content management system installations.  Contact us today to learn how we can build a dynamic site for you.