Why WordPress

WordPress is a website publishing platform used by over 25 million websites worldwide. It is a powerful and elegantly programmed system that allows for creation of virtually any kind of website, from simple blogs and personal pages to complex websites with mutli-media content.

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with a handful of users. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on tens of millions of sites and seen by hundreds of millions of people every day.

Everything on WordPress, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 500 web site without paying anyone a license fee.

For more information on WordPress visit their site: wordpress.org