I love WordPress. It is easy to install and easy to create pages and posts. This is a great way for the solopreneur with low tech skills to create a good looking website on their own and it will include a blog feature. It is also capable of massive expansion especially with so many plugins being created for trick functions – from forms on your website to countdown timers, re-direct functions to multi-level navigation and so forth.
Examples of websites created with WordPress from simple to elaborate can be seen on the WordPress Showcase page. You’ll see quite a few well known personalities use WordPress as their “Content Management System”, which simply means the platform their website is built and delivered upon.
How it all comes together is like this:
- Get a good hosting service like Hostmonster (our recommendation!) that you can access yourself.
- Purchase a good domain name inside your Hostmonster account or have your current domain transferred to your Hostmonster account.
- Download WordPress into the directory for your domain from your cpanel inside your Hostmonster account.
- Choose a theme and activate it.
- Start publishing pages and posts.
If you need step by step instructions on how to do each process, consider getting a membership to our site. We’ve created tutorials that show you exactly how to use all of the cool tools and resources we list on the site.
