WordPress is a Content Management System and is a free open source for blog publishing application. It is an extremely useful tool, and is highly recommended when taking you or your business online. Many people, from the small business owner, to the entrepreneur, to even big corporations use WordPress to express their online presence. To make use of it, you have to first download and install a script called WordPress from the site WordPress.org. Now you will be needing a webhost that at least meets the minimum requirements. You can use it for almost any website that you want and is completely customizable. WordPress has a new WordPress-based blog service that you can create in seconds and its totally for free. There are components to using the free service though. One great thing with WordPress is you can rearrange the widgets you have on your site without even editing HTML or the PHP codes.