Why WordPress?

Posted by Wonder

October 8, 2008

WordPress is Open Source scripting that enables you to use a database to interact with your HTML and CSS based pages.

Is that clear as mud?

It means essentially that the people who use your site have a lot of choice over what they read, watch or whatever there is to do on your site.

Back in my day :) web pages where long things you scanned to find what you were looking for or, usually, used your browser’s “Find” function to locate while you opened the next source in another browser widow because tabs weren’t invented yet.

If you wanted to read something I wrote a long time ago on this site, you could go to the “Ezine Archives” and read my summary of each issue. You still had to dig through the whole 13 printed pages to find what you wanted to read.

It amazes me that anyone ever went to all that bother.

WordPress, or any other CMS, changes all that.

People can pick little pieces of your site to read based upon the topic, their search terms or maybe at random. I like that.

The biggest reason I chose WordPress is because I knew it was widely supported and had an active developing community.

Guess I really didn’t know that WordPress community could change my life until I read Lorelle’s Post on WordCamp Portland.

Yep, this site is arms wide open to community. That’s what it all started out about.

There are even more reasons to use WordPress for your blogging platform at Addicot Web.

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