The forums and codex are incredible resources, as is the international community of bloggers on WordPress accessible via Google. Even if you have to hire someone to set up your blog / website initially, Wordpress will let you post and update everything without touching much (any?) code, which cuts site maintenance costs to almost nothing.

Wordpress will let me get in under the hood and tinker with the code, customize the design, and tweak – but you don’t have to play with it if you don’t want to. As long as you can handle FTP, you can get a full website up with no outside help.

That kind of simplicity for the people who need it, combined with full-blown code-hogging power for the people who can use it, is what prompted me to try WordPress out, and is what convinced me that it was the tool to build my whole business website in, not just the blog (as originally intended).

@ D Harris – If it’s working – keep it. I favor WordPress because it offers more options, but if your PR is 7, you don’t want to lose that

@ Terence – Thanks. I got the numbers from Google on the day I posted, so I understand they are current. Interesting huh?