WordPress is an open source blogging platform that allows users to easily setup their own websites and easily publish content to them. Specifically, “WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.”

I myself have been using WordPress since early 2004 after abandoning the blog services Livejournal, Blogger and several other content management systems that simply didn’t make the cut. WordPress is extremely easy to use, has a user-friendly instalation system and upgrading and managing are even easy for my technically inept blog-wielding father whom has been managing several sites using it ranging in topics from the United Nations to Christian music concerts. The beauty of wordpress isn’t that it just makes blogging and contributing to the web easy — rather, that anyone can use it.

An example of that would be this video.

I say that it’s changing the face of the web because with millions of users, from fortune 500 companies to regular joes like myself use it to speak through the web: Anyone Everyone is able to contribute and use the web no matter their skill-level. It’s free speech. Hosting providers like ourselves offer easy to install systems to setup WordPress in just a few clicks which really lowers the entry barrier even further.

Now where it gets extremely exciting for someone like me is in the ease at which I can modify the design and frontend of WordPress to fit my needs. The blog we’re using right here on Fused Network for both our status blog and this one is WordPress, of course!

There’s hundreds of sites out on the web where you can download different themes to use in conjunction with WordPress like one of our very own clients’ sites, Themeshaper, Adii, Woothemes and many others.

If you haven’t yet, give wordpress a try using our Installatron system within your control panel. If you’re not a client, signup to Fused Network using the coupon fused25off to get a 25% discount so you can start using WordPress now.