My company, tipit, focuses on web production work which means we architect, design and build websites and web applications. Recently we have had some extremely satisfied clients offering wordpress as a turnkey content management solution. Recent versions are truly powerful and a few custom plugins can mold it into a system to manage whatever type of content you might need to manage for your website. In fact, this is a great, great tool for small businesses.
In the coming months, we plan to start offering this as our primary solution to help small businesses utilize the power of the Internet to market their companies. It’s great because there are already plugins available for a variety of social networking / real-time web systems allowing the business to harness its customers as a community. Scoble hits on this in a recent post. Most businesses – especially small ones – look like their website was built in the mid 90’s. It’s time for an update and using open source software like wordpress, especially if you base a design on an available theme, the business can get one powerful website w/ the ability to use a multi-tude of web marketing tools for a very reasonable price.
To further emphasize this, noupe has a post about 25 unique uses of wordpress as a CMS. The flexibility is astounding. We look forward to being able to energize main street w/ our efforts!
