I'm just going to go ahead and say it.  WordPress is amazing.  When I built my first web site about 10 years ago it was so laborious I was extremely discouraged.  I felt like it was going to be impossible to maintain it at any level with new content or just to add a page that would talk about something current going on with my company.    It was little more then an electronic business card and not a very attractive one at that.  Boy have times changed. 

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I created a new website yesterday for my daughter.  I did this based on a book I just read called "Crush It" by Gary Vaynerchuck .  Gary talks about the importance of branding yourself in the New Economy and suggests securing domain names for not only yourself but your children as well.  I did a search over the last week and discovered my daughters name was available in a .com so I thought now would be the time to get her up and running with her own site.  You can go here and check out domain names for your kids. Domain Search.

I had my daughter time me to see how fast I could set up a WordPress website.  I had her start the clock at the login to my hosting account to purchase the domain name and stop when I had the site up and running with WordPress and had changed the title tag of the site to show her name.   8 minutes and 45 seconds from start to finish.

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