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About WordPress
The Best CMS of 2009, WordPress, was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. The WordPress developers hop that by focusing on user experience and web standards they can create a tool different from anything else out there.
2005 was a very exciting year for WordPress, as it saw the release of 1.5 version (introduced themes) which was downloaded over 900,000 times, the start of hosted service WordPress.com to expand WP’s reach, the founding of Automattic by several core members of the WP team, and finally the release of version 2.0.
After 1.5 the WordPress team seemed to have something people really liked and experienced some fairly rapid growth. Here are some metrics for 2006 and 2007.
In 2006 WordPress had 1,545,703 downloads, in 2007 we had 3,816,965!
As for plugins WordPress had 191,567 downloads of 371 unique plugins in 2006. In 2007 there were 2,845,884 downloads (15x growth) of 1,384 plugins.
2006 saw the introduction of the first WordCamp in San Francisco.
In 2007 WordPress adopted a regular release schedule, putting out major feature releases roughly every 3-4 months, or three times a year.
Wordpress version 2.5 brought a large number of improvements. 2008 saw three major releases. 2009 ushered in even more advancements and a prestigous ‘Best CMS of 2009 award.
About Razworks
Razworks, LLC is a Web Design Company principled by freelance artist and developer, Michael Rassel. Razworks, LLC was incorporated in Sarasota, Florida in 2002 and Michael Rassel took Razworks fulltime in the spring of 2006. Razworks has since become established in the Sarasota area as a web designer, 3D Animator and Audio/Video producer of the highest caliber, both in design and customer service. Razworks long list of client testimonials is a reflection of Michael Rassel’s diligent work ethic and personal integrity. “I want ever production to be my next masterpiece”, states Michael Rassel. “I want my clients to feel that I’ve provided them with a product of true value”.
