Initially a platform exclusively used amongst bloggers, WordPress has picked up a lot of steam in the world of online business and corporate web design. Thanks to an incredibly scalable and effective platform, a wide range of designs, and great potential for business web designers, more and more businesses are electing to host their websites using WordPress as a design and development platform.
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With all the buzz, it is sometimes difficult to work out whether WordPress is the ideal platform for your business. At first glance, the platform can appear slightly amateur, with only a basic white and blue design, some blog-style sidebar links, and an overall design that does not lend itself to corporate applications. However, viewing WordPress like this is only a quick look at the superficial features — when you look at the range of websites that run on WordPress, you will quickly discover that they are ultra-varied and incredibly dynamic.
If you are building, upgrading, or enhancing a business website, you owe it to yourself to give WordPress a shot. Still not entirely sure? Check out these four reasons to use WordPress as your next website’s design platform:
1. WordPress is objectively beautiful.
At first glance, WordPress might look like just another blogging platform. Of course, it is really not. When you look at the sheer range of websites that run on WordPress, one feeling that should strike you is the sheer beauty of some of the websites. From photography blogs to artistic media companies, some of the most visually appealing websites on the web are built on WordPress.
2. Search engines love WordPress.
Online businesses always value a good search engine ranking, and WordPress is undoubtedly the best platform for easy, low-maintenance SEO. With built-in SEO options, a range of SEO plug-ins, and some of the most experienced consultants and SEO service providers around, the WordPress platform and community will make sure that your website rises in the rankings quickly.
3. WordPress is easy to use, even for non-technical business people.
There is nothing more frustrating than a website that inspires confusion and difficulty every time it needs any update. We have all heard horror stories about companies trapped into ultra-expensive “continual updates” for their own websites, all because their designer did not use a platform that works for them. WordPress is so easy to use that you will only ever need a developer for the design. After everything is up and running, posting new content is as simple as pushing a button.
4. WordPress has the biggest, most active, and most useful online community of any CMS.
Should something go wrong, there is nobody better to turn to than the active WordPress community. Built of thousands of bloggers, webmasters, and designers, the WordPress community are ultra-useful and always ready to help a fellow WordPress user out. Rather than investing in a website that’s nothing but expensive trouble to maintain and upgrade, invest in WordPress and build a website with a supportive community, simple tools, and a huge range of free additions.
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