Hi and welcome to the Building Websites with WordPress site.
The site is for small offline or online business owners, hobbyists, personal site owners who are looking to build their own website using WordPress.
WordPress is a website building system originally designed for building web blogs, but by simple control panel changes WordPress can be setup as a standard website
For those of you new to web building, a blog (web log) is simply a website with the content arranged chronologically (like a diary).
A standard website is a site arranged hierarchically around content themes in very much the same fashion as a book is organised into chapters.
Why Use WordPress ?
WordPress was originally designed for authors and not web masters which meant that it was very easy for non technical people to add and organise content.
This is what makes it an excellent choice for small business site owners, hobby site owners etc, who simply want to add and edit pages without the need to become a web expert.
It can be used for creating professional business, personal and even ecommerce websites.
What You will Need
You don’t need any web editing software like Dreamweaver all you need is a web host that supports WordPress (almost all do) – requires Linux server with PHP and MYSQL support .
The ones I use to host my WordPress sites are:
Installing WordPress on Your Site
The first task is to install WordPress. There are two install options depending on your host -Manual and scripted.
Scripted install is the easiest and should always be used if your host supports it.
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Online Courses
Jump start your WordPress Site with the WordPress basic training course for beginners .
Other Articles and Resources
- Initial Setup and Changing Settings for a static front Page
- Creating a test Website Using a Subdomain
- How To Optimize Your WordPress Website- WordPress SEO
- Hosted or Self Hosted WordPress
- Adding Functionality with Plugins
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