What is WordPress?

WordPress is a free website publishing platform that is used to create amazing, powerful, fully featured and user friendly websites.

It is what’s known as a Content Management System (CMS) which as the name suggests, allows end users to easily manage all of the content on their website.

You (the end user) will be able to upload and change the images on your website, edit the text content of pages, easily add new pages or write a weekly or monthly blog, all via an intuitive and easy to use back-end admin area. There are no special skills required to do any of this, just a basic working knowledge of computers.

WordPress is built with a focus on user experience and web standards. What does this mean? The bottom line is that your website will be easy to manage, and your website will be in full compliance with the standards of the W3C (the group that set the standards and guidelines for the World Wide Web). This is important not only for interoperability with today’s browser but also for forward compatibility with the tools of the next generation. Your web site is a beautiful thing, and you should demand nothing less.

Key Features of WordPress

Scalable – Can be used to build a simple one page website, a simple blog site or a full scale enterprise website with advanced functionality
Easy to use – Just about anybody can manage their own WordPress based website. It is extremely easy to use. If you can use the internet, you can use WordPress
Very secure – WordPress is updated on a regular basis to provide the latest security fixes and patches to help keep your site safe.
SEO friendly – WordPress comes with a number of tools to help maximize your search engine rankings and be found (and loved) by Google.