WordPress is an extremely well supported publishing platform, that complies with web standards and is easy to use.

In our experience, it provides the following benefits:

• Thousands of plugins enable it to be rapidly extended to do almost anything you can imagine.
• Relatively simple templating system enables rapid site development and therefore reduced costs.
• Excellent support from literally millions of users.
• Readily customised.
• Standards compliant code and a wide range of tools make it ideal for search engine optimisation.

Although originally developed as a blogging tool, WordPress is a being used for normal website development with increasing frequency. It’s blogging origins mean that it is extremely easy to create and update content, and also to promote your site using such things as RSS feeds, social network plugins, and user comments and interaction.

As WordPress is used by everyone from Yahoo to the New York Times – it is a safe bet for ongoing support.

Themes

There are a very wide range of themes – design templates – available  for Wordpress. These can be further customised to suit the needs of your individual online business.