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After much trial and error I have decided to switch my Phoenix Real Estate website over to the Wordpress format. My original site was built in the HTML format using a WYSIWYG editor. It stands for What You See Is What You Get. While the wysiwyg editor was a great learning tool over the last 2 to 2.5 years it was now time to make the change.

The change was made for several reasons. The 2 primary reasons were for SEO, Search Engine Optimization and switching over to the PHP format. Wordpress has came along way since its creation and is now a great choice as a CMS or Contact Management System. It allows you to build both pages and posts. The pages are used more along the lines of a traditional website while the posts are used more for the blog pages. It’s the best of both worlds.

The advantage of the PHP format is that all of your data is stored in a mysql database. All of your pages and posts are created on the fly. When a visitor clicks on a link,  wordpress assembles the data from the mysql database in real time. If you need to make any changes to your Navbar or other website files, you only need to change the 1 file and all of your pages are immediately updated.

In a static html site you would have to correct the navbar for each page. If your site consisted of several hundred pages it would take you hours to do the same thing. Wordpress is also an open source project which means it’s free and there are thousands of people that contribute to the community. These contributors have created thousands of free templates and thousands of free plugins. Plugins are basically little additions of software. Each plugin serves a separate purpose. Most plugins are written by developers that use the Wordpress format.

When a developer needs Wordpress to do something that doesn’t exist they will usually create a new plugin to serve that purpose and viola a plugin is born. Because Wordpress is open source the plugin developer usually shares the plugin with the Wordpress community. This is a great gesture towards other Wordpress users and it’s also a great way for the plugin developer to get links and traffic back to his website/blog.

I look forward to using Wordpress for years to come, if not forever. The partial rebuild of this website has taken about 8 weeks from the time I decided to make the switch. The first 4 weeks consisted mostly of trying to wrap my head around the new .php platform and general site architecture. This site is my new baby and will always be a work in progress.