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If you are looking for a publishing tool that lets you concentrate on ideas instead worrying about the mechanics of production, WordPress may be just the thing for you. After using a few other open source content management systems, Substance01 upgreaded to a custom build CMS that we enjoyed every minute of using it, but there are reasons why today Substance01 goes WordPress: Open Source Software, User Friendly, Standards Compliant, SEO Friendly, Large community Support and Themes Support.

Thinks like a writer

To the extent that a content management system can, WordPress thinks like a writer. The workflow is intuitive enough not to trip us up when we are halfway into an idea. It stays out of our way, giving us only the tools we need, and only when we need them.

In WordPress, it’s easy to create and edit categories, easy to write themelines for all my categories at once, and even easy to tell when we are writing too many words for the page — because WordPress also thinks like a designer.

Thinks like a designer

Even though this is the web and not print, we as designers still care how the type is going to sit in the page. Over 90% of web users never change the default font size. WordPress’s live preview, continuously updated as we write and save, showing us what most readers will see, and lets us revise for better copyfit with one tenth the effortwe used to make.

Even if you’re not a copyfitting freak, there’s something about previewing your writing in your layout that’s better than seeing it in someone else’s.

There are other great web writing tools out there, but this is the first I know of that lets me see my site as I’m writing. It helps layout, it helps tone, it helps everything.

Respects web and typographic standards

You can write in XHTML, knowing the CMS won’t mess it up. Or you can write in text, knowing it will get converted to standards-compliant XHTML, complete with typographically correct punctuation. Some other high-end blogging software does this, too, but you have to install plug-ins to make it work. WordPress does it out of the box.

10 Comments »

  1. domains Says:

    I really liked your blog!

  2. Angellaa Says:

    Hmm, very cognitive post.
    Is this theme good unough for the Digg?

  3. substance01 Says:

    @lossitEmomele, simply click the “subscribe” button and signup for RSS of this site or go to http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=Substance01 …i hope this helps.

  4. spam Says:

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  6. Kai-Uwe Says:

    Yeah, that a pretty good bLOG, I like it. Give me more man :-)

  7. shiesMal Says:

    хех. интересно ..

  8. Туарманос Says:

    Хорошо пишешь, подпишусь на рсс.

  9. substance01 Says:

    @ shiesMal and Туарманос,

    Unfortunely i cannot write in Russian, but in future i will try to instal an translation plugin on this site so you can view the content in your language :-)

  10. Hot news Says:

    I LIKE YOUR BLOG VERY MUCH………
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