What is WordPress?
- “WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.”
- That is how this very versatile and popular blogging application is described on their site. Simple WordPress Websites uses this powerful application to create not only blogs but static page websites as well. It actually works perfect for both. This open source platform is continually evolving. Developers all over the world are adding value for its users by creating custom themes and plugins. There are so many different ways to customize a WordPress powered site that it is unimaginable why people will use anything else.
- When you log in to your WordPress account, your website or blog’s dashboard will open up. This is the back end of your site. You will be able to make all kinds of changes to the site’s front end through this dashboard. The purpose of Simple WordPress Websites is to fully customize your site for you. There is no need for you to learn any basic html, css, javascript, php or ftp to get started. We will not go into all of that in the following tutorials. We will teach you how to use the basic features of your WordPress dashboard and give you step-by-step instructions for changing any content on your pages. Please read through each of the tutorials carefully. If you are interested in learning more advanced material, check out http://codex.wordpress.org for additional resources or go to the WordPress support forum.
