Create A Free Website

As you know if you have been reading CAFW, we don't pull punches and we tell it like it is. This post is no different, please read on.

"Your Webmaster is too slow and too expensive. Your friend does not have the ability to make all the features you need, work. FREE* Wordpress is too expensive and you need more than a BLOG. You don't have time to waste. You need a WEBSITE, now!"

Here is a partial list compiled by Nicole, of the website features you can instantly have, if you create a free website with MySafeMedia:

Fast Web Design Automation - create a website in 1 second!
Full Multi-Media Support - Txt, Pic's, Video's , Audio and embedded media.
Comments & Ratings For All Media - The #1 features online today, this is what social is about.
Automatic Notifications - These keep everyone coming back for more!
Picture Upload From .Zip Archive - This makes building rich photo packed websites a snap.
Automatic Picture & Thumbnail Re-sizing - No more wasting time editing in Photoshop.
Picture Sharpening Filter - Very nice to have for all you amateur photographer's.
Automatic Slide Shows - A major value add feature for presenting your photo's.
Drag and Drop Album Management - Order and manage your media libraries easily.
Hot Swap Visual Templates - Change the look of your website, instantly without losing content.
Full BLOG With RSS - People can subscribe to your content.
Tag Cloud & Key-wording - SEO is the name of the game and this is mandatory.
Public Shout/Announcements - Network wide announcements that you CAN turn off.
SEO META-Wizard - This does the hard coding for you so Google can rank your site.
Journal / Notes - Fast easy notes feature.
WYSIWYG Editors with Multi-Language Spell-Check - No coding, multi-lingual spellcheck!!
Online Photo, Twitter, Calendar & More Widgets - infinite functionality!
Customizable Forms With Form Data Storage - You NEED forms to collect data, a must have.
Drag and Drop Homepage Design - Move things around.
Customizable Classifieds Section - Build your own ads section!
Messaging Between Website Owners - Be social.
Network Wide Top List - Become popular, know whats hot!
Text, Audio, Video Chat & Desktop Sharing* - No download needed.
Public & Private Members Only Websites - REAL Privacy.
Website Member Invitations - Start a Fan club or membership site.
Website Member Mass Messaging - Save $$ on e-mail blasting.
Website Member Account Restriction - User management.
Sell With PayPal - Make money online!
Help - Everything is explained in the HELP SECTION

Now those are just some of the features available via MySafeMedia.com. You can visit the HELP section to view more.

We advise that if you have not already done so, you create a free website today.

WordPress does not support [insert feature you need here]!!

On one of the popular Forums frequented by CAFW members we noticed an awful lot of WP cheerleaders (WP makes me ZERO DOLLARS but everyone here says its the best so I do too). Which got us to thinking about both the "peer pressure phenomena" and the ability of these cheerleaders and their regurgitative forum post to mask other solutions that may in fact outperform WP in key areas and therefore represent a huge value to new Webmasters.

The basics of this observation seemed to be that the cheerleaders do the promotion for WP and so new people looking for solutions get forced into using WP by the others (much to their detriment as our recent product shoot-out confirmed).

This constant and blind cheer-leading by those who themselves were bullied into using WP has led to massive WP sales and massive failure by millions of would be Webmasters to create and maintain a useful presence on the web. We used to use WP too, now we dont.

On top of that, the forum cheerleaders do not seem to notice or mind that a few of the more senior/savvy cheerleaders simply feed off of the less knowledgeable, by selling them WP sites, and themes for sites at obscene rip-off rates and/or e-books on how to "make money online" with WP powered websites. These more "savvy" forum inhabitants (Moderators in some of the more obvious cases) simply scrape together and edit third-party information without testing it or proving it in nearly ALL cases. The predatory WordPress cheerleaders then have a real reason to continue touting WP as the end all solution to any online problem; furthermore "buy my e-book and make millions". There was even one shockingly obvious scammer (who somehow was a Moderator in the very forum he was preying on ???!!!????), pretending to be an expert on both the Internet and all manner of associated technology in addition to how to make money online, who literally said "it is impossible that anyone could make a better program than wordpress" and he even went so far as to REMOVE a posting from a supporter of a different product.

HELLO! - These people are simply using the other cheerleaders to make a little extra money because they have not been able to do it using WP or the contents of their get rich scam e-book. So if you are a blind WP cheerleader, we advise you NOT to buy anything from anyone concerning how to benefit from WP, since allegedly you can find a way to use it for free and all the modules you want should also be free etc.

Which brings up the actual usefulness of WordPress as an application and platform with which to build a website. It does this WELL if you can find the modules you need,but it does not support ANY features not directly related to Blogging natively. For additional functionality you WILL have to find free modules that allow WP to do what you want or PAY for modules that offer the needed capability. The reason WordPress LOST the recent product shootout was because of this fact. It is only a BLOGGING TOOL not a CMS or WDA engine.

What that means is that there are in FACT, many other alternative tools to build complete websites that do not require that you go and find module after module to make them work. We obviously prefer this service but have also in the past used WordPress for Blogging (which is what it is designed to allow you to do). There are others like Joomla and Drupal too.

The bottom line to this post is simple, use your own brain to make your own choices, find a product or service you can use with the features you need and watch out for forum predators (especially if they are Moderators) who simply want to sell you their useless e-books that have ZERO value, or there incredibly useless "guaranteed" WP themes, because although they may have been scraped, repackaged and edited with finesse, they have never been used by the WP cheerleaders selling them to generate one thin dime.