Just about anyone who has set up sites in the blogosphere knows that Wordpress is one of the leading platforms for blogging. But now Wordpress is firmly establishing itself as a strong and flexible content management system (CMS). Using Wordpress to set up a non-blog site has become increasingly common as it saves time and money for the developer and thus the client. With an easy-to-use interface a Wordpress site works well for people who don’t particularly want a blog but aren’t comfortable using FTP clients and HTML editors. Once the site has been set up and customized, the client can update their own site without hiring a webmaster to do it for them.

There are seemingly countless approaches to web development: meticulous and time-consuming ‘hand coding’, HTML and CSS generator software, visual editors such as Frontpage or Dreamweaver, pre-designed templates and what now is known as ‘content management systems’.