Wordpress
Wordpress is an open source blog script written by PHP and MySQL. The recent version of wordpress is 2.7.1. Wordpress is light weight and much SEO friendly, so most of the users wordpress not only for blogging but also for CMS, medium level shopping sites, affiliate shopping, video portals and image galleries etc by using wordpress plugins.
There are lot’s of wordpress themes are available for wordpress, nowadays most of the wordpress themes are supporting widgets, so we can place our favourite applications in this widget either in right side bar or in left side bar based on the theme.
There are lots of wordpress plugins available for wordpress to optimize our blog site, few important wordpress plug-ins are allinoneseopack for seo, google xml sitemap for xml sitemap, wordpress related posts plug-in to display related posts under each posts.
Few important links for wordpress:
To download wordpress:
http://wordpress.org/
To download wordpress themes:
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
To download wordpress plugins
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/