Building a website with a Content Management System (CMS) is an increasingly popular option for small business owners who value versatility and simplicity. And one of the most powerful and well-known CMS applications on the market today is WordPress. WordPress is, like its many competitors, template-based. You simply choose a theme you like, customize it, and voila—you're up and running. And with a wide variety of plug-ins, add-ons, themes, and widgets to provide customization, you can use WordPress to create just about any kind of site you can imagine. This versatile software is used by millions to create eCommerce sites, social communities, blogs, and corporate websites around the world The application is available as a free download from Wordpress.org, or as a one-click install from many hosting providers' Web control panels. If you choose the latter method, you can usually have the basic framework of your new WordPress site up and running in just a few minutes. Manual installations are a bit trickier, but if you've got a Web administrator or your hosting provider has a strong support service, you should still be able to get your site up relatively quickly.
