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The term Web 2.0 means a lot of things to different people.  There’s supposedly a look that’s Web 2.0 you can see it all over the place bubble letters and neonish colors with lots of white space.  To other folks it’s about platforms and two way interaction. I thinkIt is, or at least ought to be about accessibility.  For all its greatness up until recently there was a rather high wall blocking people who wanted to have a site.  In general you had to either spend a lot of time learning .html or some other language, or more likely pay the price to hire someone to make you a site.

Sure, there have been programs like FrontPage for several years and it’s true that made it easier for some to build there own sites, but it still was extremely time consuming and the results were often less than desirable.  If you had to have a Web developer build your site and most everyone did during Web 1.0 chances were you were also locked into having them make all your updates which could get very expensive if you had frequent changes.

In a Web 2.0 world anyone can have a presence on the Internet.  If you’ve been thinking you’d like to have a Web site presence I’d suggest going with a content management system like WordPress which is rightly and accurately  billed as a “personal publishing platform.” Even if you have to hire someone to install it, you’ll be able to manage it so easily that you may never need a Web master again.