Our Blog - Know your RSS from your elbow...

If you are reading this post from our website, you may have noticed that we are in the process of refreshing this site with a new design, clearer messages, and more relevant content - whilst trying to eat our own dog food. Our blog forms the spine of our site (why a blog?) and we wanted a powerful, expandable, and easy-to-use tool to allow us to manage it all. Free would be nice too, of course.

Step up, Wordpress. Wordpress is a blogging publishing tool, which is free, and can be easily expanded to provide all the features of a complete content management system. From the Wordpress site…

WordPress is a powerful personal publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible.

It’s also open-source, which means anyone can open up the bonnet, have a play with the source code and make changes to suit. We use Wordpress for all of the reasons above: Free. Easy-to-use. Lots of features. Free. Fully customisable.

Why choose Wordpress for your business blog?

• It’s easy-to-use. Wordpress gets out your way, just providing the tools you need to create and manage all your site’s content, through a secure, password protected admin interface.
• You can host within your own business domain. Choose to create your Wordpress blog within your domain name and you retain full control over your own content, instead of hosting it elsewhere.
• You can fully customise the design. Skin Wordpress with a free ‘theme’ of you choice, or get a bespoke design completed to compliment your existing site and brand.
• It supports multiple Authors. Wordpress can manages multiple authors, which makes it more than capable of supporting a structured blogging strategy.
• Plenty of features and easily extended Boasting a vast array of plugins plus the ability to open the bonnet and code your own feature extensions, Wordpress can cater for almost any requirement.
• Oh, and it’s FREE.

Wordpress is used to power millions of blogs and web sites all over the web, including: Dell (yourblog.direct2dell.com), Xerox (blogs.xerox.com), Southwest Airlines (blogsouthwest.com), Digg (blog.digg.com), New York Times (walkthrough.nytimes.com), oh, and Stephen Fry (stephenfry.com/blog).

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