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Web designers and their clients can hold costs to a very low level by leveraging the open-source WordPress CMS engine and free or economical themes for their WordPress social media hub site. Web designers and social media evangelists have the advantage of a robust and well supported framework; clients have the advantage of a much smaller outlay, much greater choice, and freedom from bondage to an unresponsive, expensive webmaster.

The WordPress application itself is just the drive-train of your Word press social media hub. The WordPress theme you select or construct is what makes your website unique in appearance and function. A Word press savvy web designer can help you choose, modify, or build from scratch a theme that complements your corporate identity package.

WordPress web designers have and continue to release hundreds of new themes for the WP CMS engine every month. The majority of these themes are free and are frequently of extremely high quality and attractive design. Tens of new themes are offered for sale every month, and these are often more complex and specialized themes whose authors offer needed support in exchange for purchase.

Want to see the sights that were press web designers use for inspiration? Go to Looppress, weloveWP, WPcube, and WPCandy. On these sites you can get a quick idea of what Word press is capable.

St Pete’s Seven North Web Design & Graphics Social Media-Hub Website: Leveraging WordPress for Easy SEO and Lower Cost.

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Hey, these are big companies!

Ebay, Yahoo, Digg, Ford, Wall Street Journal, Sony, People Magazine, Samsung, Playstation, NYTimes, Wired, Firefox, GigaOm, CNN, Network Solutions, Flickr, Download, Ben & Jerrys, cPanel, General Electronics, Rackspace…

The don’t have to use the open source, free WordPress blogging platform, but they know they couldn’t get a better CMS at any price.

WordPress is a nifty software for managing content, or blogging. Due to the fact that it is open source, many say that it is not the best choice for a serious project due to insecurity and bunch of other nonsense reasons. To prove those points wrong and show you that WordPress can be used for serious projects that can go big scale, we are highlighting the most popular brands that are using WordPress.

Not necessarily the best recommendation, but in this case I’m proud that Uncle Sam uses open source software like WordPress so widely. This list is from M. Jaquith, who writes the fine Mark on WordPress.

Here is a list (probably not all-inclusive) of United States government agencies or organizations using WordPress (whether privately or publicly):

Air Force
Army
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Coast Guard
Defense Intelligence Agency
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Department of Treasury
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
Marine Corps
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Agency
National Security Agency (NSA)
Navy

Full article here.