What is WordPress and how do I get it?
WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. And the best part is, WordPress is free, though most would say “priceless!.
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 25 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home”
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
Everything from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your non profit organization’s home page to a Fortune 500 web site without paying anyone a license fee and a number of other important freedoms.
You can go to wordpress.org and download the program or use an experienced web designer to install and design the site for you.
When you first open the site after installation, it will look something like this, depending on the theme you have chosen.
From there, you can go in and customize the settings, add images and content.
With experience you can turn the blah gray site to something like this. And the best part is, you can go in yourself and update content and photos, the things that client’s most like to do themselves to save money and time.
OK, it’s not so easy, but with time and practice you can make a pretty decent site, a lot nicer than some of the “free” websites on the web.
If you are interested in learning more, Kaye Marketing would be happy to help.
