Most people are looking for website design software that can enable them to update the text and images of their website themselves. This is mainly because some web design companies charge huge amounts of money for updating information on websites that are already placed on the internet.
Luckily, there is a real nice solution to this problem: WordPress.
WordPress is “Content Management System”, also known as CMS.
CMS website design or design programmes allow the individual to update their website whenever they prefer to do so and as ofttimes as they want.
WordPress is truly painless to use and comes with numerous outstanding features.
Foremost, WordPress is actually a blogging structure that is being used extensively for interactive web design, also familiar as Web 2.0 website design. This allows users to set up their pages so that guests can become members and for a social network that can interact by means of comments, share knowledge and even post new articles.
WordPress features a real nice “Dashboard” that functions as a portal to use all the “Admin” features of the WordPress structure.
Posts – This is where you could add new posts to your pages or re-write existing posts that were posted previously.
Pages – Here you can make all your web pages and change them so they can look real . You can insert anything from gallaries to forms and videos.
Media – With the new WordPress 3.3 you can add your media (photos, moving images, pdf documents etc.) with a drag and drop interface. This is real cool! Well done to the WordPress developers.
Appearance- Here you can upload new themes and set up the widgets that will show in the side bars of the website.
Comments – In this section you can moderate all the comments made by the visitors who visited your pages entries and made comments. Normally, the comments should not appear on the pages if you have not authorized them.
Plugins – The WordPress plugin directory is a gold mine of plugins that can change any domain into anything you need it to be. Simply install the plugin, activate it and presto! You can acquire literally anything here, from picture galleries to modern booking systems….if you can envision it….there’s a plugin for it!
Tools – This is your WordPress tool chest and is used for obvious settings and tweaks.
Settings – In this dashboard you command how guests can interact with your webpage. You also control your pages and the way they are seen by the search engines here.
As one of the top South African web design companies put it: “Web design will never be the same, thanks to WordPress”
Best of all, most web hosting companies provide WordPress absolutely FREE!