Why Wordpress?
Wordpress is a platform that almost everyone has heard about. Many of us use it for our blogs and whatever else we wish to ramble online about.

But Wordpress today is no longer just a blogging platform. Its a full featured Content Management System (CMS) that competes with the best of Content Management Systems.

Big Apple Design Group recommends Wordpress today as a default to all of our customers.

This is due to a few facts that we know from first hand experiece. Below is a discussion on a few of these facts.

1. Wordpress is fast and runs on very low cost web hosting providers
This is absolutely true. You can have a zippy Wordpress installation running on a $10-$20 per month hosting service.

Not only is the front-end of the website fast, so is the admin section. This is due to a very lean programming architecture incorporated into Wordpress.

2. Wordpress builds incrementally with every new version
This is good news for Wordpress developers. What you learned using Version 2.x does not necessarily all go out of the window with version 3.x.

Wordpress tends to add new features and functions like "taxonomy" which was a Drupal specific function that builds on existing capabilities of Wordpress.

So you always have more and more methods of achieving the same goal or different goals.

3. Wordpress has a huge base of users and plugins
A huge base of users and a huge base of plugins are both required for an effective community. Because this allows all plugins to be tested extensively and also creates a market for developers to build new plugins for fame and fortune.

4. Wordpress is very well documented and great for time sensitive projects
At a recent project bid, we lost out on a largish project because we recommended using Wordpress instead of Drupal.

The person in-charge of making the buy decision at the company issuing the RFP had apparently read a few blogs comparing Wordpress and Drupal and felt that Drupal was feature richer and could do more.

About a year or so down the road, the project is still not live.

We got a similar site about 2 months after we lost this bid. The site was of a similar complexity and the client was open to Wordpress.

We had the site running beautifully on a Virtual Private Server. Traffic on the site is about 100k per day and the site is very video and photo intensive.

For time sensitive projects, we often refuse to do projects in Drupal for practical reasons.

Anyway, the analogy I like to give people is:

You go to McDonalds and get a burger. You pretty much are guaranteed satisfaction (provided you are into that sort of food). This is Wordpress.

You go to a fancy restaurant in Manhattan. You're guaranteed a big bill. But satisfaction is another thing. This is Drupal.

Drupal can be a great solution for specific types of websites but overall Wordpress will get the job done much faster 19 out of 20 times.

We are not considering graphic design here. I assume you can use the same designer to design the site and then hand off the site to a developer.

5. Theme Providers
Lastly, if you really are open to a template based (non-custom) design, you can find thousands of Wordpress themes that are of a high quality. And these themes range from free to perhaps a hundred dollars.

The average customer can find a suitable theme, slap on a logo and with half a day of tweaks, have a wonderful website platform that will provide many years of service.

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