Why Become a Member?

WillowGlenExtra.com
… the online weblog covering life in Willow Glen.

Official “WGx Members” include websites and weblogs maintained or hosted by David Keller, a stay-at-home father living in Willow Glen. As a thirty-year resident of the South Bay, Keller brings a unique perspective to the online community and enjoys gathering information and opinions about life in San Jose’s finest neighborhood.

WGx designs and maintains weblogs (aka“blogs”) using state-of the-art, open-source publishing software that can be managed by each individual website publisher, making the concept easy and affordable for local business owners, families, neighborhood activists, and non-profit groups.

WGx services can all be provided in one affordable and easy-to-manage relationship:

• WGx provides cross-marketing opportunities for local businesses, schools, clubs, families, and others seeking and publishing online content about our neighborhood.
• Complete website management services, including website hosting, email accounts, site design, content creation, and ongoing upgrades.
• Constant website promotion and exposure as a “WGx Member” with your own link button on every page of WillowGlenExtra.com, and special promotion in periodic WGx articles.

Why publish a Weblog? It is now possible for anyone to publish a great website, regardless of their technical ability. Using a simple online interface (point, type, click), you can add content, post new pages, edit existing pages, order and categorize individual articles, manage external web links, invite comments, allow searches, generate email, and syndicate content.

You can use this technology to easily update your website … spreading important news, promoting new products, sharing pictures, celebrating achievements, inviting friends to build content, offering coupons and affinity programs … immediately telling the world about things that are important to you. It really is simple! WGx can show you how!

Why use open-source software and designs? Open-source software is created by a virtual online team that includes an array of software developers and users. The underlying code that makes the program work is “open” and available to anyone who has the skill to implement it. Open-source software is generally distributed free-of-charge, and cannot normally be copyrighted by any subsequent user. If WGx creates your webpage using open-source software and design, the page is yours to own and control, free from copyright restrictions imposed by WGx.

WGx employs the best open-source weblog publishing software available: WordPress software employs PHP and MySQL to produce webpages and HTML code. Themes and functional plugins expand the capability and appearance of the weblog software. These open-source designs can be altered extensively to fit your unique needs.