Sometimes it’s just better to say- here is where someone got it all together- and tell you to click over and read their post.
This is one of them- the presentations on this site will help make it clear to you, enjoy:
Web 1.0 – That Geocities & Hotmail era was all about read-only content and static HTML websites. People preferred navigating the web through link directories of Yahoo! and dmoz.
Web 2.0 – This is about user-generated content and the read-write web. People are consuming as well as contributing information through blogs or sites like Flickr, YouTube, Digg, etc. The line dividing a consumer and content publisher is increasingly getting blurred in the Web 2.0 era.
Web 3.0 – This will be about semantic web (or the meaning of data), personalization (e.g. iGoogle), intelligent search and behavioral advertising among other things.
via What is Web 3.0? Semantic Web & other Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English.
Every blog starts humble- well, at least most do. If you have a niche, and do a great job, well, next thing you know, you’ve got a million dollar business.
Here is what 247WallSt.com decided were the top 25 blogs- based on their financial value- take a look:
financial values on blogs.
Gawker, Huffington Post and Drudge report are at the top of the heap- but don’t let that stop you. There are opportunities untapped- just find your niche and jump in.
“But, I don’t want to have a blog for a website”- we hear it all the time. The reality is, WordPress is a Content Publishing system using a database. It really doesn’t care what your site looks like, it’s just the tool to manage that content.
I don’t call it a Content Management System anymore- because, it’s really not managing the content, you are. It helps you publish to the web what you need to publish, in the easiest way possible. We use other CMS systems like Drupal and Joomla- however, they require a steeper learning curve than WordPress- making them less likely to help you be prolific. Google prefers prolific – trust me.
We found the Thesis theme about 6 months ago. It’s a paid theme- something we typically don’t strongly recommend, however, from a developers standpoint, Thesis gives us all the tools we need to make a site do almost anything. For us, that’s worth it.
The Krispy Kreme UK site done in Thesis
For you- it means you can have a site that looks great, and doesn’t look like a “WordPress” site. The developer of Thesis-Â Chris Pearson, is an active member of the WordPress community. He understands the idea of supporting his theme, and has been building a community of users. He’s on Twitter- Personified
Which brings us to the site that doesn’t look like WordPress (and there are many of them) that I thought I’d highlight today- Krispy Kreme UK. Take a look at the screen shot- or wander over to the site.
And, if you don’t want to pay for Thesis, there are some other premium type themes that are free. Read this post to see what’s out there.