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WordPress was originally created as an open source blogging platform, but it is since grown into a comprehensive content management system (CMS) that can power all sorts of website.

Despite this, its legacy as a blogging system has meant that many developers and users have looked down at WordPress as inferior to other open source content management systems, like Drupal and Joomla.  Recently, there has been a change in attitude that has at last been marked by WordPress winning “The Overall Best Open Source CMS Award” at the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards.

Below are 4 good reasons to use Wordpress as a CMS:

1.    It’s open source

As an open source content management system, WordPress is not just free, but also there is a continuous improvement by the community of dedicated developers across the globe, and it also has an fantastic array of plug-ins (mostly free) that allow the user to effortlessly add virtually any feature that you could imagine your website, at the click of a button.

2.    Simple to use

The main reason for using a CMS is that it makes it easy to edit the text and images of your website without needing any special software or programming experience, yet some content management systems are very confusing and daunting to beginners, especially if they’re not tech savvy.  WordPress has a simple, user friendly control panel that makes updating your website just like editing documents in Microsoft Word.

3.    Pleasing to the eye

Obviously, the appearance of your site primarily depends on your design, not your CMS, but the great thing about WordPress is that there are virtually no limits on how your design can look.  Some CMS softwares have limited layouts, and you can’t change much apart from colours and insert your custom logo design, but with WordPress your website can look like you want it to and perfectly represent your brand design.

4.    It is SEO friendly

Some content management systems have complex code that makes it difficult for search engines to read your pages.  WordPress is fantastic for SEO web design with clean code, readable URLs and loads of free SEO plug-ins to help you work on your meta tags, cross-linking, alt tags, Google site map and more without needing any special programming experience.

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