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WordPress for the New Year
Posted on January 8th, 2010
My new year’s started with a foray into the WordPress world, which has been both exciting and challenging. WordPress is an open source blog publishing application that is entirely database driven. There is a bit of a learning curve by trial and error, and a learning to relinquish a bit of control for someone like me who is used to hand coding. But the benefits truly outweigh the challenges. Built-in widgets and plugs enhance the functionality and usability of your site, without having to know much PHP, if any. A knowledge of CSS is helpful though if you want to customize your site a bit.
My interest in WordPress was piqued after looking at the new site for Figure Skaters Online, the umbrella site for websites that I design for U.S. champion figure skaters. The webmaster gave the site a complete face lift with a ton of added functionality to satisfy fans of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.
For those non-designers or coders who just want to set up a blog, WordPress offers an intuitive graphical user interface. Designers and coders who want to delve in more deeply can use WordPress to set up complete web sites and e-commerce stores.
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