Question: Beryl what’s the easiest and most cost effective way to create a website when you don’t have website development skills or money.Linda J.

Answer: Linda J. I can answer your question with one word; WordPress. WordPress is the perfect application to build your website on when you lack money and html skills; or just want an easy solution to creating a professional website. Yes, I’m talking about the blogging platform you hear all the time. It also makes the perfect website platform. It’s perfect because…

• Cost is minimal. The only thing you’ll have to purchase is a domain name and website hosting. You may choose to purchase a premium theme but, it’s not a requirement since there a lot of free themes to choose from.
• Installation is easy. Most web hosting companies make it real easy to install WordPress by having you complete a short form and clicking install. No database to setup or anything.
• Creating a look you like is easy. WordPress uses themes to change the look of the site. There are hundreds if not thousand to choose from. Most are free and some cost a small a fee. Either way they’re all customizable.
• Easy to customize the look. Colors and fonts can be changed by altering the Cascading Style Sheet, CSS. The header image and text can be changed right in the WordPress control panel. A few tweaks to the code and you can have multiple page layouts.
• Easy to add content. Adding content to a WordPress site is as easy as typing in Microsoft Word. Just remember to use pages to post static content to your site and post to add content to your blog.
• Increased Performance. You can use plug-ins to the performance of WordPress. There are plug-ins available for almost everything including adding a shopping cart to your site, sending out newsletters and password protecting all or some of your site
• Your entire site on one domain name. With a few tweaks and customizations you can have pages for your website, blog and newsletter all on the same site. That way visitors can easily click over to see what you offer.

So, Linda J. the answer to your question is WordPress. It’s cost effective and easy to use.

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