Hello, my name is Rob cabin. I've been running a web and graphic design business for 10 years specializing in content marketing, WordPress and email marketing. WordPress is the most successful content management system for websites out there today. with WordPress, you can build a site in five minutes with no prior experience. And WordPress can be scaled to power some of the biggest websites in the world. Now I want to take you back over 10 years ago to 2005 where I was working in London in an office for somebody else doing very menial typesetting work.

This is what I thought I had to do from the age of 18 to the age of 65, or whatever work for somebody else in an office. Somebody came up to me in that office and suggested that I use WordPress on my website. He knew I'd been struggling creating web pages with static HTML, I did so and that one piece of advice from that guy in that office in London in 2005, set me on a path where I created my own business left work two years later. And now it's a six figure business which I run from anywhere around the world. I'm actually in Thailand at the moment, looking at some beautiful green hills, with sun shining on them in Chiangmai. But it's not just me who's created a business from WordPress.

WordPress is free and open source. Nobody has actually been paid for creating it directly. However, it's spawned literally 10s and thousands of viable businesses, people who create plugins and themes for WordPress, people who use WordPress as a web design and development tool, or people who power their website with WordPress, which contributes to their new business. Now, WordPress is running over 25 percent of websites on the web. We think that's an amazing number of people who use WordPress. So it's very important to get to know it.

It's very easy. And I've started these lectures at a very, very basic level, where I'm going through the administration section and the links on the left hand side in WordPress, very easy stuff. later on. I'm just creating a website in front of your eyes. You can do it with me create pages menus, sidebars, footers, changing the theme, changing the look of the website, adding plugins to add functionality. WordPress can be used for just about any type of website.

WordPress really is a great and simple tool with an incredibly supportive and helpful community around it. My name is Rob coven. I'll see you in the next video.