Archive for February 2008
Slide 6: WordPress
WordPress is a leading blogging tool, and to a lesser extent, could be used as a content management system (CMS).
WordPress allows users to quikcly publish web pages, blogs, and other material with little or know experience in HTML coding. Furthermore, once published, the material is made avaialble in an RSS feed which enables readers to subscribe in a variety of applications in order to receive updates from the content publisher. Subscription pushes the content to the user, where as having to manually check web pages requires a pull of information from the user.
There are two ways to use WordPress:
http://www.wordpress.com
offers a hosted solution with free and paid membership plans. Alternatively, users can download a free copy of WordPress from
http://www.wordpress.org
and install the software in a web hosting account or on a web server. This approach provides a much more robust yet largely simple ability to customize the web site and WordPress software.
As a user grows with WordPress there are a number of plugins that can be added for increased functionality and connection to other web services. WordPress plugins also facilitate integration of Twitter content.
Most WordPress functions are accessible to screen reader users.
WordPress Resources
WordPress Podcast
Upstart Blogger WordPress Tutorial With Links ToOfficial Documentation
WordPress Accessibility Statement