WordPress is one of the most popular and highly sophisticated content management systems you can find to help build your website. Incorporating it into your website's builder portfolio will offer you a low cost solution, regardless of how big or small your plans may be. WordPress is an adaptable system that operates on an adaptable platform so the kind of value that you would get here far outweighs any other system that you would have put in place.
Using WordPress in building your website is the very definition of simplicity. It's an incredibly useful business tool, one that allows you to build a site from your own domain, as well as allowing you access to a couple of dozen emails. All this is courtesy of the domain mapping upgrade. That's not even the half of it; with WordPress you don't need any professional design or hosting skills, and with the added value of custom plugins and themes, your website will have the luxury of witnessing the most elaborate content management system at the very peak of its powers.
How to get started
The first and perhaps most unappreciated step; find a good host, one with minimal limitations. Reliability and stealth becomes crucial here. Once you have this locked, then you need to think about compatibility. WordPress requirements haven't changed all that much, but for your website to operate at full width, then you will need two main things;
PHP version 5.2.4 or better MySQL version 5.0 or better.
The next step is to build your website around your content-not the other way around. You need to develop a static front page that acts as your home base-if you will, where you put up your company profile-make it simple and friendly.
Then you go on to create a series of subsidiary pages with a logical order of key information streaming. This makes your website more like a business portfolio and less like a journal based timeline. You want your website to be a resource base, not a feature blog consisting of dozens of random events. WordPress allows you to do just that! This step also allows you know the number of pages that will eventually end up with. If they turn out to be too many, then it is perhaps advisable to include a 'site index' that makes for easy navigation.
By this point you are already up and running, so you need to select a theme that emphasizes the purpose of your website, and appeals to your target audience. The theme should be simple, nothing fancy, just a little access point for you key pages on a top bar menu. You need a theme that you can identify with, and one that won't require changing every so often. This is mainly due to the fact that it will show up on just about every page on your site, so you need to pick wisely.
These are only a few of the many steps that can ensure your websites blends well into the WordPress spectrum, and that you get the best possible value. Remember that less is more here-so avoid cluttering your website with tons of irrelevant information-keep it simple.
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