The WordPress is an easy to use web publishing application suitable for small businesses and sole traders who wishes to build and maintain their own websites.

A recent survey found that most of the small businesses in Australia do not have their own website. This could be due to various reasons, primarily it is because the general perception that website is hard to setup and maintain, professional help is required to perform the task.

With the advance in the web technology, it is making easier now to setup a website on your own. There are many web technology out there enabling business users with little technical knowledge to build a website themselves. The most popular of these platforms would be WordPress due to its ease-of -use and supports of a wide range of business essential plugins.

WordPress is a great tool for you to jumpstart your own website as:

• It is the most popular web publishing tool in the market currently. Many web-hosting companies offers WordPress web-hosting at a very affordable price.
• There are many readily available free themes or web templates that you can deploy on your website instantly
• There are many 3rd party plugins available in WordPress allowing business users to enhance their websites' functions, and most importantly, these plugins are mostly free (unless we needed additional/advanced features of the plugins)

Please follow our blogs where we would discuss on the various topics on WordPress website for small businesses

1. How are install a WordPress website
2. How to customise the web theme/template to meet your business needs
3. What is plugin and how can you make use of them
4. How to make your website responsive for different devices
5. How to create your own pages and posts that link them to your web menu
6. How to protect your Websites from hackers’ attack