I’ve been working hard lately on a few projects for myself and a few projects for clients.  This is a sample of a site that is getting ready to launch.

I’ve been building a lot of WordPress based websites and finding out more and more that I LOVE WordPress. Here are some great reasons to have your website built on the WordPress framework:

• The best thing about WordPress is that you can easily control the look of the site purely through CSS.  Yes, you can add tables, but using Divs is so easy that I can whip up a simple site in a couple hours.
• Another great thing about building sites from WordPress is the ability to ad Google’s Adsense into your pages.  What’s better than earning a little ad revenue from your site?
• You can also edit the CSS directly from the internet through the WordPress “Editor” function under the appearance tab.
• The sidebar can be a powerful tool to advertise and keep your followers updated with your Flickr photos, twitter messages ( Tweets ), recent comments, links to other hot sites, new pages, and social networking sites.
• Another fantastic advantage of WordPress is the ability to integrate a shopping cart into your site via Plugins that make it SUPER EASY to add items for sale such as eBooks, MP3’s, Pictures, PDF’s, and other digital media. Check out the shopping cart I just did for the Coastal Players Tour.
• While we are talking about plugins – I might suggest some other great plugins that can allow users to post Video Comments on your blog, integrate Javascript (cool effects like those built by MooTools), and easily submit your site to search engines with built in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tools.

WordPress as a content management system (CMS) makes it super easy for the client to edit and update his own website.  This takes away the need for a webmaster to constantly keep updating a website whenever the client needs something adjusted (that’s a great reason for me to like it!)  This gives the user without much web experience to keep their site up to date, becuase we all hate a website that hasn’t been updated in years.

Tags: custom theme development, Web Design, wedding websites, WordPress website