lots of people use wordpress to power their entire site.

thanks for letting me know... I usually write my own stuff, so I was pretty sure it was more of a blogging thing...

Many are using it as the entire framework of their site - easy to manage, update, etc.

I assume it can work as a type of CMS then, right?

yes, I believe so. I'm just a dabbler. I have a good knowledge of the old school stuff...html. lol. I'm lost with this new stuff. (Gadzooks that makes me sound old. ROFL)

ha-ha, I've been working with net related stuff since about '94, so yeah, I'm more familiar with the old than with the new... out of CMS I've only really tried Joomla, and was sure that wordpress was a blogging thing... I'll have to take another look at it, since I'll have to make a site for myself soon too (I'm pretty sure that I won't be able to blog consistently, I always start and fizzle out within about a week or so ;))

Hi everyone, I was just reading this and wanted to explain a bit about what Wordpress is and what it can do. I have designed several websites in Wordpress over the last couple of years for many applications.

At its heart, wordpress is a blogging Content Management System, which means it offers a web panel that allows a non-technical person to easily update their website without knowing html, php, javascript or anything else. In short, you can update the text using a familiar word processor type of interface.

That being said, the platform can be used for basically everything imaginable. This includes ecommerce stores, blogs, social networks, real estate websites, and really anything else you can think of. And in every one of these applications, what you want can be achieved either free or for very reasonable rates.

In fact, I recently found www.idxbroker.com which offers a plugin for wordpress that allows you to easily add an idx feed to a wordpress site. I have not tried it out so I do not know if it is any good, but I plan to in the very near future.

I hope this helps clear everything up. If you have questions, feel free to pm me.

Do a YouTube video introduction of yourself---

Take the embed code and put it on your website.

It's a relationship business.

Good luck!

Thanks--Mario

Most important content on Your web should be properties. Put real effort in finding good selection of real estate for sale and You will get serious inquiries.

Also, putting some usefull informatio about local community can help clients decide to try You instead of competition.

I think everyone had some great ideas here...thanks - I picked up a few tips myself!

I just wanted to say that I set up my new site entirely in WordPress and I LOVE it!! I don't have any experience in web design or coding. I bought a template that I liked for $150 and added my content to it, then hired someone in Bangladesh from eLance for $109 to customize it for me. On the front end (and to search engines) it looks and operates just exactly like a traditional, static web page but it's so easy to use on the back end. I just don't have the time to learn technical coding and site creation, but I didn't want to rely on someone else if I wanted to update or change stuff. A friend turned me on to WP, and I'm so glad.

You can check it out at: www.KaneoheRE.com. If you have any suggestions for it, let me know!! Now I'll work with someone on eLance to help with SEO, then it will just be a matter of blogging a few times a week to maintain it. I really don't want to be a web master.

The entire site cost me less than $400 to do (IDX fees are about $100/mo though).