Welcome to Wordpress…
A web publishing platform that allows you to:
- Administer your website from any terminal with a username and password.
- Have direct control over the content on your site. Any changes made are instant.
- Upload images, movies and media and include into your articles and pages.
- Use themes to set the look and feel of your site.
- Create multiple accounts for users and collaborate on articles.
- Sell both products and downloads and collect secure payments (requires service like PayPal).
- Reply to comments and build a subscriber base.
- Provide value to your visitors with a dynamic, article based platform.
Wordpress is open source web application designed originally for blogging. A community of developers has worked on the software for over 5 years to the point where it is now both flexible, powerful and user friendly.
In addition we also have access to a vast array of 3rd party plugins and themes, most of which are free!
So what do you get in the DIY kit?
Theme and Plugin download packs.
Quick Wordpress setup templates.
Screencasts as Quicktime files and supporting documentation, showing step by step how to:
- Setup a webmaster account and consider security.
- Buy a domain,
- Setup hosting,
- Install Wordpress,
- Upload plugin and theme packs,
- Load a template into your site,
- start your first article.
- Prepare your site for the public and,
- Start promoting and creating traffic!
You might be looking for a more progressive way to do business online.
You might be wanting to simply control the content on your site.
You might want to blog about something your are passionate about.
Wordpress 2.6 is here.