Monatsarchiv für July 2008

 
 

History of WordPress

The WordPress timeline is not particularly old. In fact the evolution of WordPress over such a short time is really quite staggering.

The timeline shows that WordPress started life as a blogging control tool to manage the typography of blogs. That would have been in about 1997. In time, it became a full blog design tool. Companies such as Realitus started to strip its functionality to access the dynamism of WordPress and use it to power websites. The development of the tool continues to grow and supercede other website platforms.

But this only states a kind of usage history. The reason the use of WordPress has taken off and hit this level of momentum is because it is a better way of doing things for everyone involved.

Website owners can control their websites themselves. Users can interact with the web and search engines can find, read and see the websites easily. Designers can make changes, support is free and practically automatic, as is platform development. It is an open source initiative, it has a development life of its own and an almost vertical development curve at the moment.

As a user, you have to have a pretty good excuse not to like it. As an organisation you have to have a damn good excuse not to use it. WordPress is massively cheaper, immeasurably better and absolutely relevant.

The Story so far….
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28. July 2008 | Wordpress | Comments (0)

What is WordPress

WordPress has emerged from the distant moon of blogging and is taking over the much bigger solar system of website design, development and delivery. What has catapulted it out of this modest orbit is a combination of key things. When we specify WordPress to our clients we refer to: developer access to its code, ease of use for the website owner and massive yet free system support. But it is also true that WordPress is a success because of the nature of what it was, rather than because anyone planned it to become a core plank of general website design.
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28. July 2008 | Wordpress | Comments (2)

Editorial Plan

This website covers a range of areas all concerned with business and the way that their web presence fits into marketing, communications and overall branding. As a one-time journalist the best way I can see of doing this is to create an editorial plan and then research and write.
This page is a movable framework.
Initial thoughts are:
  • What is WordPress?
  • WordPress history.
  • Why business is right to be concerned about WordPress
  • What will WordPress do? 
    • for you
    • for your customers
    • for your search engine ranking
  • Why WordPress?
  • WordPress Plugins. What’s that all about?
  • How to make the best of a WordPress website.
  • SEO and WordPress
     

27. July 2008 | Wordpress | Comments (0)

WordPress, a Google parallel

WordPress came into our consciousness a few years ago. Blogging had arrived and it seemed to be something to do with that. However our parent company (we hadn’t been born back then), Creative Thing, do PR work from time to time. It occurred to us that if you ignore the word Blog, WordPress is a fully functioning online newsdesk. So we told our client ACID about it and they said they would have one.

And having climbed inside WordPress we realised that it could do lots more. It could run websites of all types and sizes, with content management systems coming free. It would be easier to create better websites. We win, our clients win and this felt like a revolution about to happen. A bit like when Google emerged.

Prior to Google there were a lot of search engines out there. They were part of a suite of things. All doing the same kind multitasking wrapped up in portals, features and functions which were designed to capture our imagination or, more significantly, our default home page and thereafter have a degree of control over our online viewing habits. Then one day Google showed up.

It was thing for searching the web and nothing more. It had a single line text box in the middle of an otherwise blank screen with the word Google above it. No style, no, add-ons, no translation devices, no email thing, no portal. And not much has changed with the core product since then. It was and is great because it does its job well and doesn’t confuse anyone over that. It instantly captured the home pages of users all over the world.

Where web sites are concerned, there are loads of content management systems out there. Loads of poor designers and developers and websites built on everything from Vignette to planks of wood. Then one day WordPress emerged. It started out as a blogging tool, but critically, it was open source, that is it had all its source code open for all to see and improve, develop, and share. 

WordPress must have had the largest development team in the world working on it for years. They freely share their work with other developers and designers, creating new interfaces, functions, security layers and add-ons. It has become much more than a blogging tool, it is an easy website generation tool. Someone with a basic understanding of the web can set up a site. Critically people with advanced understanding of the web can build on WordPress and make it jump through hoops, sing, dance and tell jokes.

WordPress is the best way to build a website. It is so good that a WordPress website would cost between five and twenty times more done in any other way.

24. July 2008 | Wordpress | Comments (4)

RCA Small Wonder EZ205 Pocket Camcorder Review

After deciding on the RCA Small Wonder EZ205 pocket camcorder, I offer my initial thoughts and feedback on the device for any other potential video bloggers who want to go mobile.

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23. July 2008 | WordPress Developments | Comments (0)

WordPress Hosting Review

It’s no secret that I’ve been using the WordPress blogging software for a while and in that time, I’ve gone through a number of hosts as well. Since “Who do you recommend for...

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22. July 2008 | WordPress Developments | Comments (0)

Flip Mino or RCA Small Wonder: Which Would You Choose?

About ready to dip my toes into the video blogging waters, but there's just one question that needs to be answered: The Flip or the Small Wonder pocket cam?

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19. July 2008 | WordPress Developments | Comments (0)