Creating a good website with wordpress is very easy once you have the right direction. In this article I will give you the basic steps to starting up a website/blog with WordPress. First things first before we begin. WordPress is not the ony content management system for blogs/websites — there are many others. I prefer wordpress over anything else due to it’s simplicity and ease of updating and adding plug in functionality. WordPress was originally designed for the creation of blogs. A lot of websites are centered around the idea of a blog which is new articles published frequently. For most websites to do well they need to provide constant valuable information at a decent rate. If you put up a couple of pages on a website and leave it at that, most likely your website will drop from the search engines and disappear. I love the idea of building a website around WordPress and I am working on numerous other websites using it. WordPress Basics A WordPress website consists of these...

  Elegant Themes     I was looking around for a while for some well built wordpress themes. I spent many an hour downloading, installing and setting up themes. I couldn’t find anything I really liked. I was trying to find something with some nice affects, Ajax and something solid. I stumbled onto Elegant themes and looked at the demos. Almost all of the themes are very nicely designed and well put together. The only bad thing is the cost. It’s 20 bucks to be able to download any template for a year. I have used 3 of the templates on my sites and they are great. So far, this is the most valuable set of WordPress for the money. Other “Theme Clubs” charge you $50 for one overdesigned theme with just enough special effects and glitz to distract you from your wordpress blog’s actual content. So far I’ve used Evid, EGallery and Quadro(For this site).  Check it out: www.elegantthemes.com If you like the themes, leave us a comment. We’d love to hear...