WordPress

The world’s most popular blogging platform WordPress has a new version, WordPress 2.7, codenamed “Coltrane” and it is available for download now at www.wordpress.org.

It is also integrated with Google Gears!

Google Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser:

• Desktop - Let web applications interact Naturally with your desktop
• Database - Store data locally in a fully-searchable database
• WorkerPool - Run JavaScript in the background to improve performance

If you want to know more information about Google Gear, check out http://gears.google.com

Many newbies always wondered how to create a web site fast. My answer to them is always WordPress. The reasons are as follows:

• Wordpress is free and easy to use. It is open source software!

• It is also very easy to learn.

• WordPress is easy to install too even if you do not have any technical knowledge, especially if your web host support Fantastico or SimpleScript. With the use of  Fantastico or SimpleScript, with a few clicks of the mouse, your Wordpress blog is installed.

• To give it a new look, simply search online for a free WordPress theme, upload it onto your web host using FTP (no worries, it is very easy to do FTP), activate the theme inside your Wordpress control panel and you will have a nice looking web site or blog within minutes.

• There are a lot of other free WordPress plugins that you can download and use for your blog too to expand the functionalities of WordPress.

• There are lots of WordPress users, designers and developers all over the world. If you need any technical support for WordPress, you will have a ready community of people to reach out to.

If you are seriously considering using WordPress but need some help to start, you can try out these commercial WordPress videos from WordPressEasy.com that will help you lots of time while trying to learn WordPress. You will get many beautiful Wordpress themes and many other bonuses as part of those videos. Great value in my opinion!

Learn how to fish (create beautiful-looking web sites within minutes ), and you will never have to have someone fish for you again (never ever need to pay expensive rates to hire a web designer again).