WordPress for prototyping

WordPress is, in my humble opinion, the best platform to prototype your product on. Regardless if your final product will be powered by WordPress or not, the rapid development cycle makes its value unimaginable. Have an idea for an online business? In less than 36 hours, a hardworking weekend, you could have it built to 80 percent of what the final product could be. Prototyping is a 1000 times better than a business plan; a prototype shows that you're serious and have invested heavily into your product, even though 90 percent of it was built using code that already existed.

Building a prototype (or a business for that matter) on WordPress might seem a bit intimidating if you're not a developer or a designer who really ...

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