By Ryan Gutierrez
Don”t let college professors, web developers and other professionals fool you: creating a web site in this day and age is easy! These people are perpetrating the myth that not only is creating a web site hard, it requires technical knowledge such as HTML, CSS and PHP. While it is useful to some extent to know these things, if you”re just trying to put together a web site for your club/organization, family or event, learning these skills is not only overkill, it’’s a waste of time.
Creating A Web Site The Smart Way
The smart way to create a web site in this day and age is by using an existing content management system (CMS). A CMS allows you to quickly and easily add, change and remove content to your site such as articles, images and videos. A good CMS lets you do this without having to know any HTML whatsoever. Why reinvent the wheel when you can harness the power of an already existing system.
Which CMS is best?
I”ve used many CMS” to create many web sites and they all have their pros and cons. Some are better suited for small blogs, others are better suited for running huge sites with lots of content. The one that I like best for all of the sites I create is Wordpress because it is free and open source.
Why Wordpress is a great CMS
Although it started as a blogging platform, Wordpress has evolved over the years into a a bonafide CMS, capable of running small blogs, static business sites and huge magazine-style sites. It’’s also free and open-source which means that it is constantly being worked on by developers around the world who contribute their time and effort to improving Wordpress by fixing bugs and creating innovating new features.
Wordpress is easy to use
For being so powerful, Wordpress is surprisingly easy to use. You never have to edit any code manually (although you can if you want to!) and everything from installing a new template to adding features to your sidebar is done using a graphical user interface (GUI). Publishing new content is easy as well and if you”re computer literate enough to use Microsoft Word, you will be able to use Wordpress.
The days of having to learn all about HTML before building a web site are over. By using a CMS such as Wordpress, you can dramatically decrease the time between conception of an idea for a web site and actually putting it online. This is truly the smart and easy way to build web sites.
About The Author
Ryan Gutierrez is a web developer with a passion for teaching people how to create a web site for the first time using Wordpress without having to learn complex HTML. To learn how to create a web site go to http://www.learnhowtocreateawebsite.com.
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