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February 12th, 2010 |

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What Can a Blog do for a small Business ?
If your like most folks spending your time building your business and getting the work done, you don’t have time to learn all the in’s and out’s of the internet and web sites. The truth is that there are literally thousands perhaps millions of possible approaches, styles, programs, applications and the list goes on and on. I am sure the first idea is to find some web design company to help you out, which… if you can afford to have them change your site every week.. that’s great. Unfortunately most of us can’t afford that with prices easily starting at $150.00 an hour. The next thought that starts to creep in, is to use one of those web hosting companies that have “Pre-made” automated web content. which seems pretty cool on the surface but what you find out shortly (after you paid for a year in advance) is that there is serious restrictions and very little flexibility. The truth is that a high percentage of businesses have a tendencies to give up even trying to improve their web site in any way.
The Good News The good news is that there are some options which take some learning but are fairly easy to use. I have a tendency to recommend Word Press which can be downloaded at the following link http://wordpress.org/latest.zip I intend this first, for Small or New Businesses that provides some kind service such as a plumber, lawyer, painter in essence most companies that do not sell things over the internet. I should mention that Word Press does have modules for online shopping carts. However, if you intend to sell on line I believe that Pay Pal has the easiest set up and execution of an online store.
Word Press has thousands of existing templates that the community has made. Word press is what is considered an “Open Source” Program and is free to all. Also there are thousands of Plug ins and widgets that can be added to suit your needs. examples can be found here… http://wordpress.org/extend/plug ins/ Currently at the time of this article there are over 7600 plug ins and over 65,500,000 downloads. Admittedly some of these plug ins are out of date with the current version of Word Press and some are not as clean as they could be. All in all though this is a great resource for the tools you may need to tune up your web site. What I like most about Word Press is that, like any “Blog” YOU can make as many changes or additons as you like with relative ease. Next, there is a very large community that can offer help located here: http://wordpress.org/support/ This includes installation and set up documentation.

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