CoConut Solutions has been using WordPress blogging software as a template behind web-sites for a number of years.  We do this as and we recommend it to our customers for one reason only.  It’s easy to use.
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WordPress is a tried ans tested Content Management System (CMS).  It is the database on which all the content for your site is entered and stored.  As mentioned before, WordPress is primarily a blogging package, but it’s flexibility means that it is ideal for building and maintaining a small site.  In addition to this there are countless themes available to download from the internet which gives your site it’s unique look, as well as innumerable plug-ins making your site unique to visitors.
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It is hard to explain just how simple it is to use.  The closest comparison is that generating content for your website is about as easy as writing an e-mail using Hotmail.  This means that you can keep your website up to date.  You can quickly make changes and alterations to reflect special offers or changes within your business or organisation, and you can do this yourself.  This means that changes are done immediately, and saves you the cost of  employing Web-Developers to make minor alterations.
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CoConut Solutions can set you up with everything you need to build your own site.  We can also supply the necessary content to get you started, as well as providing training that has been tailored to suit your needs to ensure that you can keep your site runnig the way that you want.
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Have a look at this video showing how easy it is to use WordPress Control Panel.  This is the back door to your site, the place where you enter all your articles, pages and pictures.
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You  push Linux Ubuntu because you make more money out of it

If only that were true! CoConut Solutions supplies software ‘at cost’, be-it the price of a licensed MS Windows disc or the price of the Linux media. What our clients pay for is our time in installing the software, setting things up, and where required giving basic training in its use.
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Typically for the cost of my just installing Windows XP onto your computer, we can install Ubuntu, set up the computer in a home or office, and give basic training to a Linux novice. Cost-wise, the money is the same. Value for money, our customers get more by opting for Linux.
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I have a pirated version of Windows on my computer. The idea of Linux appeals to me, but I know Windows and I don’t feel confident having a computer that doesn’t have the features that I’m used to.

There are a number of options open to you. CoConut Solutions can save your data, and install a licensed version of Windows. Alternatively it may be possible to install Linux on the same hard disc as your existing Windows install.
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This is called a dual-boot, and when installed after powering up the computer, you would be given a menu offering you the choice of booting into either Windows or the Linux operating system. We find that after only a week, many of CoConut Solutions’ customers use the Windows system less and less as they become productive with Linux. Of course the learning curve is different for different customers.

Microsoft is one of the biggest corporations in the World, surely losing my $1000TT won’t do them any harm?  Besides aren’t Linux operating systems are ‘given away’?

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When you say biggest, I think that you mean richest.  Compare the numbers of actual developers there are far more developers working on Linux based distributions than there are developers employed by Microsoft.
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Without getting into economics, different companies have different business models.  For example, MS makes a lot of it’s money selling Windows and MS branded products.  Whereas Canonical Ltd, the company behind Linux Ubuntu, derives it’s revenue through other means such as technical support.
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I want Windows because I want the most up-to-date system.

Ubuntu releases a new version of its Linux based operating system every 6 months, other Linux distributions release on similar regular time-scales.  Even the version of Ubuntu CoConut Solutions recommends to corporate and less experience home users was only released in April 2008 (8.04 Hardy Heron).
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Compare that to Microsoft:  Windows XP was released in 2001.  Five years later in 2006, Vista was launched. The next version of Windows will not be out until late in 2009.  If you want up-to-date, then Linux is the answer.