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GDI Features: WordPress

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What it is

WordPress is a free open source blogging software that has become one of the most popular and prominent content management services on the web. In WordPress.org’s own words: “The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 25 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” – we’d love you to join the family.”

Features

WordPress has many great features, not the least of which is an easy to use blogging platform that can be customized in many different ways. You can edit, format, and publish blog posts with WordPress. You can customize your blog by adding new widgets or new themes. There are thousands of themes available for WordPress that can be easily found by searching and installing directly through WordPress or searching with and outside search engine. If you already have a WordPress blog, you can also easily move it to GDI. With GDI, regular customers may use up to 10 GB of space for the sum of all their plugins. Premium customers have 100 GB of space available for the sum of all their plugins.

How to take advantage of it

Log in to your Members Area and navigate to Plugins. Here you can activate your blog or create new ones. Once your blog is live take advantage of it by customizing it every way you can. Add plugins, manage widgets and play with themes. Once your blog looks the way you would like, utilize WordPress to its fullest by adding and scheduling posts, posting video and sharing photos. The possibilities with WordPress are endless! To get up to speed right away, watch our WordPress tutorial video above.

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GDI Features: SiteBuilder

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What it is

SiteBuilder is our template driven WebSite design interface. It easily allows you to get a WebSite up-and-running in minutes without using special software. Everything is completed from within your Internet browser. You simply need to log in to your Members Area and navigate to Build Your WebSite to get started.

Features

SiteBuilder allows you to choose from premade templates and designs to create a professional looking site with no WebSite building or design knowledge. You can create a blog, embed videos, and add images, banners, widgets and more to each page. For even more on SiteBuilder, watch our full tutorial below.

How to take advantage of it

SiteBuilder is easy to take advantage of since it is so user friendly. As stated above, all you need to do is log in to your Members Area and select Build Your WebSite. Choose SiteBuilder as your option and you can start to create your site with the help of the SiteBuilder Wizard. You can add new pages, photos videos and more. Once you’ve completed the wizard, you can easily edit any page with SiteBuilder by clicking the edit button from your main SiteBuilder menu.