Why WordPress CMS

CMS stands for Content Management System.

When websites were first designed the content (text, articles, images, etc) were embedded directly onto the html page.  This isn’t a bad plan… but as websites grow larger it becomes a large problem.  A very large problem.  Here’s why…

If you ever want to update your website design you have to update every single page.  If this doesn’t seem so bad… consider a website like Amazon.com, Ebay.com, or any website with more than 5 pages.

A Content Management System fixes that problem.

What a content management system does is acts between the website design and the website content.

WordPress is currently ranked as one of the top, if not THE top, CMS system in the world.  Although it started as a blog platform it has since become the top rated CMS.  There are many reasons why WordPress is an excellent CMS system.  One of which is that it is open source (FREE) and anyone can help develop it and make it better.

(Did I mention that this website and those we build for our clients are all built on CMS platforms?… And now we almost always build websites on WordPress?  That’s one of many reasons our products are better than the competition.)

Here’s a little data why WordPress is an excellent choice for your website…

I took this graphic from the WordPress website.  It helps to illustrate the power of WordPress.

Here are just a few of the the sites running on WordPress.  Please notice that some of the largest and most well renowned companies in the world are running WordPress.  This list is obviously not exhaustive.

• http://www.johnchow.com/  (the internet guru)
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/ (a massive online tech website)
• http://www.techcrunch.com/ (another massive techie website)
• http://www.nikonfestival.com/  (Nikon film/camera)
• http://healogix.com/  (medical sites)
• http://platinumgames.com/ (a premier gaming company)
• http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/ (Harvard Law school!? yep.)
• http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/  (And here’s CNN)
• http://newsroom.mtv.com/ (and MTV)
• http://www.darkersideofgreen.com/ (lexus)
• http://www.thefordstory.com/ (Ford motor company)
• http://ebayinkblog.com/ (official ebay blog)
• http://ycorpblog.com/ (yahoo’s official corporate blog)
• http://electronicsblog.sel.sony.com/ (yes, Sony)
• http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/ (People Magazine)
• http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/
• http://www.time.com/time/blogs (Time Magazine)
• http://blogs.wsj.com/ (The Wall Street Journal)
• http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/
• http://www.samsungusanews.com/
• http://blog.mozilla.com/
• http://www.benjerry.fr/blog/
• http://rhymesandreasons.honda.com/
• http://blogs.nfl.com/
• http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/index.html (yes… even NASA)