Seven reasons for using WordPress

Originally designed for blogging, WordPress has become one of the most powerful content management system. This makes it an ideal solution for small and large business’s. And with other 50 million websites using WordPress here’s seven reasons why you should also consider it.

1. Cost effective – It’s completely free and has an army of developers constantly working on it to keep it up to date and secure. This means that you don’t have to pay a developer two or three days work to code a platform from scratch.
2. Design – High quality themes give you great designs at a price that’s a snip. As WordPress is the most popular system there is a large market of designs to choose from. Some of them are even free. Most of the themes are written in HTML5 which means they can be viewed on a iphone or ipad. Unlike a lot of other CMS’s out there were this would be an additional charge.
3. Branding – As WordPress’s code is so well written it’s easy to customise your website to your own unique branding. That’s why I choose to use WordPress for this website.
4. Growth – You can add to your website very easily with a flexible interface. This includes adding new pages and content. There’s thousands of free plugins so you can expand the functionality of your website to include forms, calenders, email subscription and all kinds of widgets. There are over 30,000 plugins available. You name it, its probably there and yours for free.
5. Search engines – Its well written and simple code is standards compliant. That means its excellent for search engines and can be read by screen readers. Its easy to use interface is great for enhancing your search engine capability without having to change any code.
6. Social media – WordPress is built for sharing. You can easily integrate your YouTube videos and Twitter feeds. You can automatically update your Facebook and Titter feeds every time you publish a new blog article.
7. Prototyping – A lot of the time you don’t know if the text and images you’ve written and compiled is going to work until it goes on a live website. You can do any many designs as you like but there will always be something you miss because a design and a website are essentially two different things. WordPress’s flexible and easy to use system allow ‘s you to make tweaks and get it right without the massive cost and pain of having to change lots of code.