I was raised in the old school of coding. My primary “editor” is still a text editor called Editpad Lite. When I’m designing a site for a client I still do the occassional straight code site. Believe it or not, some people still just want a static brochure. It works for them for a variety of reasons, mainly time.

I do a little with Joomla! and Drupal as well. I think I’m more on the Drupal side of the fence now. Still, my main rapper snapper is definitely WordPress.

I’m a big fan of WordPress. I’ve been using it for several years. That might not seem like that long but in web years that’s an eternity. Almost since the beginning when Matt & company created it from b2.

I don’t just use it for blogs anymore either. I use it for entire sites. With all the plugins available, and the ability to build and customize themes, I’ve found I can do just about anything I need to do in WordPress. It works out great for the client too because they get varying levels of CMS ability.

The other great component is security. there is this huge community that is constantly improving and securing WordPress. I still get the occassional IT person that has questions about what is WordPress, who is using it, is it secure, etc?

Well, there are a ton of sites using WordPress. [Will Ferrel voice]Work the google machine on the internets and you might be surprised. The New York Times comes to mind as does, the National Football League and another favorite site of mine Techcrunch. Here’s a link to the stats page for some more.

My new favorite one though. This link to government agencies using WordPress. And now, the tie-in to the title of this post…the National Security Agency. Yes, the NSA. Can anyone fill me in on this…without having to hurt me after of course