WordPress: A Brief Overview of Open Source Web Power

The open source code structure of WordPress makes it a leading choice for website implementation, design, and management. Once considered a mere self-hosting, community blogging tool, this free and readily available website management product is now a premium, commercial quality platform.

This high end point and click, programming tool is filled with features and ready to run almost straight out of the package. I can be installed and activated with very little technical skill. Better yet, the learning curve is near to nonexistent. WordPress can be manipulated and customized by those with absolutely no programming proficiency.

How Does WordPress Make Website Design Easier?

If you can run an Internet browser, you can run WordPress. The technique is really that simple. WordPress is menu driven, including but not limited to:

• Automated graphic insert tools;

• Built-in site design formats;

• Drag-and-drop navigation;

• An enormous library of free design Theme templates;

• Built-in form generators, upgradeable by a seemingly endless supply of user created WordPress plug-ins;

• Point and click user management controls;

• Media managers;

• Free custom designed themes for almost every conceivable website purpose.

The Ease of Locating WordPress Add-In Design Tools

Themes are the front-end layout of a WordPress managed website. Think of themes as the look and feel of a website, or of the way a web page presents material to the reader. The theme is the starting point of a WordPress based website design.

Themes are picked to match the function of a site. For example: whereas an article distribution theme may not employ many site graphics, a magazine styled theme may incorporate not only graphics but also multimedia and other visually centered applications. Other theme applications may combine various aspects of article marketing with magazine presentation to create a new and unique look and feel to the website.

Herein lies the best news. Any theme that does not fully satisfy your website design concept can be upgraded by the use of free plug-ins. WordPress is a showplace for gifted programmers. The use of themes, plug-ins, and widgets gives the system a versatility that can scarcely be matched.

Almost any desired task can be accomplished not by personally modifying the source code (though that too is possible), but rather by locating a customized plug-in. Best of all, WordPress makes installing themes, widgets, and plug-ins easy.