Wordpress
What is Wordpress?
WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It's often customized into a Content Management System . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system.
Networknet.nl is powered by Wordpress
Networknet.nl site is runned by Wordpress and for me the best available blogging platform. I am using Wordpress for many years now. Wordpress is a Open Source project where hundreds of people all over the world are working on. Wordpress opened my eyes for Open Source and since than I am implementing and working with other projects. Wordpress is completely built on web standards and requires PHP and mysql. If you want start using Wordpress than there are two options:
- Register a blog at WordPress.com and in seconds you are ready to go. The service is free but less flexiable.
- Download and install WordPress on a hosting provider server with Linux platform and support for PHP and mysql database. In 30 minutes you should be able to go and start blogging yourself ;-)
Writing, managing and maintaining your Wordpress blog is easy as browsing a website and with it's Admin pages you can do everything with your popular browser. Firefox and Google Chrome are doing much better than Internet Explorer. For a while I used Windows Live Writer but I see many advantages without it.
Example of Writing a page:
Articles
- How Has Blogging With WordPress Changed Your Life by Kim Woodbridge?
- How to manage your WordPress database by Chris Garrett?