Once you have installed Wordpress 2.9, you will has all basic functions for your websites: image edit, automatic thumbnail crop, video, audio. It is perfect for web beginners.

Once you have a drop down menu, you can use Wordpress as CMS to manage your websites. For small websites, wordpress 2.9 is the best choice.

Wordpress just released version 2.2 two weeks ago. It has a bug which does not support unicode fonts such as Chinese and Thai. What you need to do is to disable the following two lines in wp-config.php:

define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

Change those two lines to:

//define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
//define('DB_COLLATE', '');