For those of you who have been around WordPress for a while, you probably don’t lose any sleep pondering this question.  But one of the students in the course I teach, Creating Websites with WordPress: A Bootcamp for Non-Techies, contacted me after the first class with a concern that essentially boiled down to this: “I signed up for this class to build a website, but I am concerned that my site will only be a blog.  I don’t have anything against blogs, but I need my site to be more than that.  What are we really going to build here?”

Part of their confusion probably lies in the fact that, when you first create your site (the class is using WordPress.com for starters), the system creates a blog page  for you with a sample post and, by default, assigns the blog page as the home page.  Another potentially contributing factor: one of the exercises assigned in the first class is to create several post articles; we don’t get to creating pages until the second class.  But I think that perhaps most of the confusion lies in how the terms “blog” and “site” are so often used interchangeably in the World of WordPress, even in WordPress documentation. Read More→

In my 30-plus years working in the field of information systems I have had several compelling “Aha!” moments, including one in 1993 when someone first showed me the World Wide Web.  As primitive as the Web looked back then, it was just so obvious that it would have a huge impact, especially on the business world.

The Web and all that surrounds it have, in fact, completely transformed how we conduct business, giving rise to many brand-new businesses, even entire industries, no one could have imagined — no less built — without the existence of the Web.  Not insignificantly, the emergence of the Web and all that surrounds it have also tolled the death knell for many once-mighty enterprises.
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