Selecting the right, or just a content management application for the Web is similarly challenging as picking the album and photo management package.

The most important is to define the requirements for the content management application.

• What type of content is it going to present and manager?
• How much time is it going to take to add, update, remove, comment on the content?
• Is the structure for the content complex, is it more hierarchical or more flat?
• How complex (or fancy) the presentation, the look&feel of the content will be?

I had two major paths to chose from: take a full blown Content Management System (CMS), try a Wiki system, or go with a light-weight blog style content manager? I decided that a blog-style will fit the purpose, because:

• blogging it is the “thing” to do on the Web lately,
• it is easy (in other words, does not need much time) to manage,
• the structure and the use (reading, commenting) of blogs is simple and it is almost common knowledge,
• it has all the features I may need to host the content I have to deliver.

There are quite a few Web applications available for blogging.

First I tried b2evolution, but it was not as exciting as the second choice: WordPress. I will not bore you with the feature this proggy has to offer, here are the reasons I liked it:

• Easy and simple installation. This happened remotely using nothing else than a browser.
• Heaps of excellent quality themes for free. This is always a good indication. Furthermore, the theme customization is fairly simple as well.
• A nice set of plug-ins.
• Support for pages, kind of a mini content management system.
• Online theme editor – it is nice to fine-tune the theme on the spot from the admin client.

Next step with WordPress is to customize the theme…