WordPress
Introduction
WordPress is a very
useful addition to your web hosting service. If you're not
interested in learning about coding but still wish to edit your
own website, I suggest you investigate using WordPress. Through
its templates and pre-established formats, you will be able to
easily make updates to your website without running the risk of
making serious mistakes.
If you have ANY intention of doing your own site work with
WordPress you should confirm that your hosting service supports WordPress
before you establish your website with them. If they do,
then you will be able to install WordPress at a later date if
you choose. Otherwise, you'll have to move to a
host who does support it and that can create a lot of additional work and
expense which
might easily have been avoided.
WordPress greatest strength is its usefulness as a blogging tool
or to allow people to add comments to a particular webpage.
WordPress and GoDaddy
In spite of what you might have heard, WordPress WILL install into a GoDaddy Windows
economy hosting service without hassle or expense. I know this is true
because I have done it myself. It is, of course, available for a
Linux hosting platform as well.
Drawbacks to WordPress
While WordPress does indeed make things much easier than
dealing with the actual HTML code, I find its greatest drawback
is its relative inflexibility. There are probably THOUSANDS of
available templates available for your use but being complicated,
they are very hard to modify unless you are profecient in HTML and PHP code. The design of many websites simply
screams "Template" just from its overall look.
I personally feel that such a cookie-cutter format
detracts from the image you might want to present for your
website. And reasonable minds might very well differ with that assessment.
Having said that, I know of no technical reason why WordPress
could not be effectively integrated into a more conventional
ASP.Net-based site in order to use WordPress' blogging or
commenting functions. In fact, I am currently designing a WordPress site
which does exactly that. I am still somewhat conflicted regarding the
appearance and utility of WordPress, but I am giving it an opportunity to
show me what it can do.
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