WordPress is a free and open-source content management system that is written in PHP and MySQL. It allows users to easily create and manage website content without needing to know HTML or other coding languages. WordPress started as a blogging platform but has evolved to be used as a full content management system through the use of thousands of available plugins and themes. Some key advantages of WordPress include its ease of use, low cost of development, large community of developers creating extensions, and built-in search engine optimization tools.

4. • WordPress is an online, open source
website creation tool written in PHP.
But in non-geek speak, it's probably
the easiest and most powerful
blogging and website content
management system (or CMS) in
existence today.

5. • WordPress is a free and open-source content management
system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL.[5] WordPress is
installed on a web server, which either is part of an Internet
hosting service or is a network host itself; the first case may
be on a service like WordPress.com, for example, and the
second case is a computer running the software package
WordPress.org. An example of the second case is a local
computer configured to act as its own web server hosting
Wordpress for single-user testing or learning purposes.
Features include a plugin architecture and a template
system. WordPress was used by more than 23.3% of the top
10 million websites as of January 2015.WordPress is the
most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more
than 60 million websites.

8. Gmail New Account
In this page you will learn how to
create a new account at
Gmail.com…….. 

9. How to Sign Up for Gmail
1. Go to mail.google.com
2. Click the “Create an Account” link at the bottom center of the page.

10. 3. Complete the registration form on the right side of the page. Type
your first and last name in the two fields at the top of the page.

11. 4. Choose your username.

12. 5. Create a password for your new account.
6. Confirm your password on the next field.

13. 7. Enter your birthday, choose month from the drop down menu,
and then enter the day and year in which you were born.

14. 8. Select your gender (female, male, or other) from the drop down menu.

15. 9. Enter mobile number.

16. 10. Type your current email address.

17. 11. Prove that you are not a robot by typing in the text in the image.

18. 12. Select your location from the drop down menu.

19. 13. Check the box at the bottom to agree to the Google terms of service
and Privacy Policy.

20. 14. Click on the blue button that says “Next Step”.
15. Now follow the provided instructions and you’re
done!

21. A Little History
WordPress was born out of a desire for an
elegant, well-architectured personal
publishing system built on PHP and MySQL
and licensed under the GPLv2 (or later). It is
the official successor of b2/cafelog.
WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and
development go back to 2001. It is a mature
and stable product. We hope by focusing on
user experience and web standards we can
create a tool different from anything else out
there.

22. What You Can Use WordPress
For:
WordPress started as just a
blogging system, but has evolved
to be used as full content
management system and so much
more through the thousands of
plugins and widgets and themes,
WordPress is limited only by your
imagination.

36. The Advantages of Word Press
1. Easy to operate. You can make changes to the website yourself without having to know any HTML
coding. Adding pages, blog posts, products, images and editing current content is easy onWordPress. At Designed
to Connect, we supply you with a set of training tutorials to walk you through how to manage your website yourself
when you build a WordPress website with us. This will save you a great deal of money since you won’t have to pay
your programmer to make every change you need done on your website.
2. Cheaper to build. WordPress offers a huge variety of themes which can be used to build the website. When you
begin with a theme, you cut down significantly on the amount of time it takes to build a website. (If you don’t find
a theme that you like, we can build you a theme from scratch; however, this will increase the costs).
3. The highest number of developers creating themes and plugins for it. Similar to the situation you are seeing in
the smart phone industry where the iphone offers over 7 times the number of apps as the blackberry, WordPress
offers more paid and unpaid themes and plugins than any other Content Management Systems. This means that
when you want a feature added to your website, there is a good chance that you will be able to find a plugin that
exists for it.
4. Search Engine Optimization is made simple. WordPress offers several great search engine optimization tools
that make doing your own on-site SEO simple.
5. E-commerce is available on WordPress. At Designed to Connect, we generally use Woocommerce – an e-
commerce add on to WordPress to build our e-commerce websites. As an e-commerce store, you will often find
yourself updating your products, pricing, sales, coupons and more. Woocommerce is extremely effective in doing
all this along with offering great reports features. Building e-commerce into your website has never been easier or
more cost effective!

37. The Downside of WordPress
1. WordPress updates their software frequently. Updates to the software are required in order to keep the
WordPress platform up to date with the current browsers and mobile devises and ahead of malware and virus
attacks. However, sometimes the plugins aren’t as quick to adapt to the WordPress updates, which can leave
you with plugins that don’t operate the way they should or at all when you update your website. Prior to
updating your WordPress version it is advised to take a backup copy of the website, some hosting plans
include regular backups. In the event there is an issue it can be restored to the earlier version.
2. Content doesn’t always look right. When you make updates to your site yourself through the visual tab, it
doesn’t always flow the way you expected it to when looking in the actual browser. This can leave those not
knowing HTML frustrated when they try to get text and images to appear the way they want. However, it is
still cheaper to have your web designer fix those few style issues you need done rather than having to send
them a list of changes you need done every time you update your site.
3. Customization of a theme can be costly. If the website was built upon a theme and you decide that you
want to make major changes to it, it may be time consuming to have a programmer make changes to the
layout of the theme. Every theme is programmed differently and therefore the programmer must first
familiarize themselves with the way each individual theme was programmed before making the changes. If
you anticipate needing to make major changes to the theme, consider having a theme built from scratch to
meet your needs instead.

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