| If you have done your homework on web design | | | | cherry on the cake, all its themes and plugins are |
| and development, you have probably wondered why | | | | free, so you can create a site from scratch free. |
| most people today prefer to build and redesign | | | | 2. Usability. No strong technical background? No |
| existing sites using WordPress as their platform. | | | | worries. WordPress is easily one of the most |
| What's all the fuss anyway? | | | | user-friendly web design and development tool. With |
| Initially introduced as a blog site, WordPress has | | | | little experience and a lot of tinkering around the site, |
| grown to be the highly preferred site even for the | | | | you are sure to find your way around. |
| web design and development of e-commerce and | | | | 3. Security. This is one of the important concerns of |
| online stores. In fact, WordPress has easily take | | | | any online business. Well, WordPress is secure as it |
| precedence and have left OsCommerce to bite the | | | | can possibly get. This is why more and more |
| dust, so to speak. Why? For one, WordPress has | | | | websites have migrated to WordPress. |
| gained the confidence of many for its extreme | | | | 4. Customizable. Sure, any website owner would |
| reliability. This is undoubtedly one of the primary | | | | want to launch a highly unique web design and |
| considerations for many web design and | | | | development project that stands out. This can be |
| development projects. To best expound the the | | | | easily achievable with WordPress, with thousands of |
| benefits of WordPress, I have compiled the top 5 | | | | themes to choose from. Of course, if you want |
| advantages. | | | | custom branding, you can always get professionals to |
| 1. Free. You have probably come across open source | | | | do the job. |
| software and wonder, why would the developers | | | | 5. Supportive Community. As I have mentioned, |
| offer WordPress for free, right? This is because, it | | | | WordPress is developed by a community of |
| has been developed by a community of developers | | | | world-class developers. On its forums, you can find |
| from all parts of the world - either as a hobby or as | | | | hundreds of references and resources by reading the |
| full support of open source development. To put | | | | threads. |