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Exploring Web Design with WordPress
In This Chapter
Comparing blogs and websites
Introducing WordPress as a content management system (CMS)
Understanding ways to publish content with WordPress
Discovering WordPress free and premium theme options
When you discover that you can build and design more than just a blog with WordPress, you begin to realize the potential of the software and how you can apply it to your website-building efforts. For me, the light bulb went off in 2005 when my clients came to me wanting more than a blog on their sites. Many of them ran small businesses and needed to add other features to their websites, aside from the chronological display of the blog posts they’d been publishing.
This chapter introduces you to the concept of using WordPress as a content management system (CMS). You find out what CMS really means and see how you can apply it to your own website-designing efforts. You also discover what types of content you can publish with WordPress software and how you can leverage that content to build dynamic websites.
Additionally, this chapter introduces ...
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