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Code School - Rails for Zombies. WordPress Web Hosting just $3.95 per month – DreamHost. James A. Martin — SEO & Social Media | Marketing & PR | Blogger & Blogging Consultant. How to Build a Small Business Website with WordPress. If you're toying with creating a small business website or blog, allow me to detain you for a moment. Maybe you're considering hiring a website designer to create, maintain and update your site. It's a perfectly reasonable option, especially if you have no knowledge of -- or zero interest in learning -- website programming. But there is a DIY option well worth considering: creating a site with WordPress. WordPress is essentially a highly flexible content management system that can serve as the foundation for a blog or a fully-fledged small business website for online marketing or ecommerce.

With a WordPress-built site, you can easily add new pages and blog posts yourself; no knowledge of HTML, CSS or any other mind-numbing acronyms is required. You can customize the look of your site so that it's unique. To build a site like this, you need to download WordPress from WordPress.org. FYI, this article doesn't cover using WordPress.com to build a new site or blog.

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The 100 essential websites | Technology. Andy Warhol talked of a time when everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. With hindsight, however, he might have wanted to revise that down to about five minutes. On today's web, phrases such as "here today, gone tomorrow" seem to involve ridiculously long timescales. People who moaned that blogging represented a move to shorter attention spans – 250-to-350-word posts rather than 1,000-word stories – have now seen blog posts start to look big and, frankly, old-fashioned.

Today's trendsetters are using "microblogging" sites such as Tumblr, Posterous and Soup.io, which are taking the opportunity for creative "borrowing" to new heights. But the smash hit of 2009 has been (apologies: I know this will cause pain) Twitter, where 1,000-word stories are reduced to 140-character tweets. Short attention spans R us. Twitter's rapid growth and open programming interface have given the site a wide impact. Major web players such as Facebook, Google, and Microsoft also got involved. Browsers Cartoons.