These days almost all of our sites are driven by WordPress. Most people have heard of WordPress by now, especially since it now powers almost half of the world’s websites. Say again? Yes, over 43%, and almost 500 million websites of the world are powered by WordPress. It’s by far the biggest web builder.

But what exactly is it? It actually comes in a few shapes and forms, and there are two main forms:

• WordPress as a blogging tool (WordPress.com)
• WordPress as software (what we do here at Greengraphics).

If you like to do these things yourself, you can setup WordPress as a blog. Note there are various limitations using it that way, and LOTS to wade through yourself. If you do this, well all we can say is: good luck!

Just remember, everything is free now… but with anything free there’s often a catch!

The WordPress we use is WordPress-as-software. That means we install it on our high quality Australian-based servers and we can tailor it completely to suit you. The end result is a beautiful, robust platform with all the bells and whistles behind the scenes, but with a simple, elegant interface for you to manage your own content without needing to worry about code and updates and plugins and all that stuff.

Now, if we’ve already got you up and running, here’s a nice online lesson for getting started…