WordPress has grown beyond its humble blog roots and developers around the world now use it to create amazing websites that are very easy for their clients to update.
Blog platforms were originally developed to make it possible for users with little or no knowledge of web coding to be able to publish and edit articles. It was an inevitable transition to manipulating the page layouts and functions to make it behave like a regular website instead of a blog, while leaving the easy-edit features in place.
SEO features are built into the WordPress software making the pages very Google-friendly.
WordPress is amazingly awesome right out of the box. But you will want a designer/developer to set up a custom “theme” (template) for you in order to give your site its very own personalized look and feel; and then to install the "plug-ins" (specialized features and functions) that you require.
