If you’re a web site designer/builder, experienced or raw beginner, and you haven’t used Wordpress to create a web site yet, then you’re overlooking one of the quickest, easiest, and cheapest ways to build a super looking web site.
If your perception of Wordpress is that it is for blogging and bloggers and not good for much of anything else, then man are you missing the boat.
Wordpress is extremely powerful, very versatile, highly customizable, unusually easy to install, and extremely low priced(as in free).
There are all kinds of free and custom themes for Wordpress available and you can quickly transform a plain looking site into a very professional looking site that rivals the work of many high priced professional web site designers.
Using a few of the hundreds and hundreds of plugins available for Wordpress, you can turn your Wordpress site into a sophisticated and highly automated web site that would make any geeky web site code writer jealous.
Besides the hundreds of free themes available for Wordpress there are also some highly specialized custom themes for Wordpress available that can have your Wordpress web site up and running and looking superb in just a couple of hours, and at a very low cost.
Specialized premium themes are available in areas such as music, news, photo sites, real estate, sports, sports teams, grunge, ecommerce, corporate, business, blogging, social, magazines, technology, and more. You can see demo sites and test drive themes of this type at custom Wordpress themes
Two of my very favorite providers of custom themes for Wordpress, the ones I selected to use on my own web site, are ITheme and Revolution.
Plugins are add-on components that you can quicky and easily install in Wordpress. A lot of them are free to download and install, and others are sold at prices that are usually very reasonable for the chores that they perform for your web site.
There are plugins that will do SEO chores on your web site. There are plugins that will auto backup your Wordpress database and email you the backup files. There are plugins that will install Adsense ads on your site.
There are plugins that will install a contact form on your site so you don’t need to show your email address to spammers.
There are plugins that will turn your Wordpress web site into a fully operational ecommerce site complete with shopping cart, payment processing, and product delivery.
There are plugins that will morph your Wordpress site into a membership site, with full member management, one-time and recurring payment processing, and member content management. I use a plugin called YourMember Wordpress plugin to handle the membership chores on one of my web sites, and I have been very pleased with the way it works, and the level of support I have received from the two guys that developed it. Information on this Wordpress membership site plugin is available at membership site plugin by YourMember
A new membership site management component just recently appeared on the scene that can drip feed your content to members of your web site, which means new members cannot access all of the content that old members have access to unless they remain a member and have the content drip fed to them each month. This is a feature that has been sorely needed in membership site management tools. This component is named DAP Wordpress membership site plugin, or Digital Access Pass, and you can learn about all of the features available at Digital Access Pass plugin for Wordpress.
All in all, Wordpress is a web site builders dream come true. It’s fast, easy, free, and works great. How can you beat a combination like that?
Check out the short video on How To Install Wordpress Using cPanel And Fantastico to find out for yourself just how easy it is to install Wordpress and have an instant web site, ready to customize to fit your needs.