Why Choose WordPress?

One of the prin­ciple advan­tages of Word­Press is that you are in con­trol. Unlike remote-hosted scripts such as Blogger and Live­Journal, you host Word­Press on your own server. Instal­la­tion is very simple, as is the con­fi­gu­ra­tion. Unlike other soft­ware pro­grams, there are not a mil­lion files to chmod nor are there dozens of tem­plates to edit just to get your site set up and loo­king the way you want.

Also, Blog pages in Word­Press are gene­rated on the fly when­ever a page is requested, so you do not have mul­tiple archive pages clog­ging up your web space. Wai­ting for pages to rebuild is a thing of the past because tem­p­late changes are made in scant seconds.

Word­Press is built fol­lo­wing W3C stan­dards for XHTML and CSS, ensu­ring that your site is more easily ren­dered across stan­dards-com­pliant brow­sers. Other brow­sers are sup­ported with a few hacks; it’s a rea­lity of the web that hacks are necessary.

Aggre­gator sup­port is built-in with a number of stan­dard RSS con­fi­gu­ra­tions already done for you, as well as Atom. Fol­lo­wing stan­dards makes your Word­Press site easier to manage, increases its lon­ge­vity for future Internet tech­no­logy adop­tion, and helps give your site the widest audi­ence possible.