Where to start?

I sat down one day and was looking over what was my portfolio at the time and I had the whole thing setup in flash. It was nice a sexy but I wanted the google power that comes with indexable pages on the web, not like flash. I also wanted a site that was easy to update. I wanted to be able to design it the way I wanted, not use some template and tweak it to be my own. With Wordpress this was all possible. So that’s when I decided to make Wordpress my CMS.

CMS Content Management System

CMS’s like Wordpress are handy for many reasons. The main reason I wanted to learn how to make CMS websites was for my own sake of time consumption updating websites I had created. The old-school way of updating sites would have been to directly access the files on your webserver, downloading the files or editing them from their source, making the changes I wanted to make, then saving and uploading them back to the server. Sounds simple enough, but it gets time consuming. Now with wordpress its much simpler then that. I don’t need any fancy FTP (file transfer protocol) programs to update my pages, I can just simply login to my CMS and there is a nice form-style editor that I can type up a new article (much like I am doing right now), tell the CMS where I want this article to be (I could make it a new page, just a post, or one of many other things) and then hit the update button and my site has a new page, post or whatever I wanted the world to see.

Of course things always sound easier said than done, and the learning wasn’t incredibly hard, but it isn’t incredibly easy either. Its one of those things you just have to keep working at, and things start to click. Thats how it has been for myself anyway. If I told you this site had bee

Now CMS’ are getting more intuitive with each passing day. Anyone who has followed Wordpress knows this. It started out as a simple blogging tool, but can now be the backed of a corporate website, an e-commerce website, a blog, a magazine/news style site, the possibilities are endless. I myself decided to go with Wordpress because I love open-source products that have insane fan-bases that drive the product to get places even most commercial products fail to get.