In this blog post, I would like to pay tribute to the best Online Content Management System (for me) which is WORDPRESS.
WordPress is a well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL.
Started in May 2003 by its co-founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little as the successor to b2/cafelog. Launched with just a handful of users, Wordpress is now used by over 62.8 million websites.
The birth of Wordpress was encourage by the announcement that b2/cafelog would stop it’s development and Matt Mullenweg who’s using b2 as the primary blogging software on his sites announced that he was going to create a similar software from the b2 codebase. He was later contacted by Mike Little and they developed a modern folk software of b2 which was current with web standards.
WordPress 0.7 , the first version was released on May 27, 2003. It was the upgrade from b2 version 0.62. It was XHTML 1.1 complaint, had new default templates and a new admin interface.
Succeeding versions was released in a few months time for upgrades and bug fixes. …
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Almost everyone turns to the internet to search for almost anything. More and more people are using search engines to look for services and products instead of the yellow pages for the simple fact that it’s easier. Statistic shows that Over 60 percent of consumers search for a local business on the Internet, and only 33 percent use the yellow pages.
The main reason why a business should have a website is advertising. Advertising has evolved from print media to television and radios and it has now reached to computers. And every business should keep up with the latest trend of advertising. I mean why not? Isn’t advertising very important in getting more customers, thus enhancing your business and gaining more profit. Plus it’s a 24 hours a day 7 days a week advertisement available anywhere in the world.
Every business owner should take advantage of the powerful marketing opportunities that exist in owning a website. Internet advertising is more targeted to a specific audience. The clients who visit your website are there because they have a specific interest in your company’s …
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I studied Art & Design and Speech Communication at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and briefly worked toward a Masters degree in Architecture at Columbia University in New York. I eventually withdrew from my graduate program, recognizing that I was entering the wrong field. I had done web design as a side job for several years, and realized that I was far happier creating websites than making blueprints and site plans.
I worked at several web design firms upon returning to Chicago. These jobs didn’t offer me the control over my projects that I wanted, and often produced sites in chunks, with designers and developers having little internal communication. For these reasons I started my own web design firm, and I am now free to take on any project I want and can see it through from beginning to end. I truly enjoy my job, and I take pride in my craft and build every website as if it were my own.
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