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Over the past several months, I have noticed a change in a lot of websites and I’m not talking about trends or phases. The widespread use of platforms such as Wordpress seems to have sky rocketed beyond belief.

I know it became unrealistically popular to start blogging but a fair amount of newly created sites are using Wordpress as more of a CMS to largely expand its use. This got me thinking – Are we all soon going to be browsing what will be known as the WWW?

World Wide Wordpress sounds a tad farfetched and possibly is but as I see it, the flexibility of the package as a whole allows for much more than a blog. Group this with the vast amount of available plugins and huge community and you have yourself a tool fit for almost any purpose.

When I decided to start freelancing, it wasn’t to exclusively provide Wordpress themes at all. I was aiming for more of the general ‘semantic, valid code, clean design’ type of package with the bulk of my projects being hand-authored. That was my plan, but it hasn’t lasted too long at all. I have only just started freelancing and the first few requests I have had for designs have been Wordpress themes.

Even in the case of someone requesting a basic HTML & CSS combination site, I now find myself looking to Wordpress for the answer. I know there must come a point when it’s just not the right tool for the job, as would be the case for some advanced web applications but it’s unlikely I would be the developer behind those particular projects in the first place.

This entry isn’t much word-count wise but it wasn’t my intention for a detailed discussion into the future of web sites, merely something to think about – Are any of your future projects not suitable for Wordpress? (Or another similar platform) Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some more themes to work on!