I contacted my webhost to find out on whether I can run Wordpress?

I’m an absolute beginner. I want to be able to keep my site fresh and up to date with articles and images. And I’m assuming Wordpress can get the job done. The thing is my site was developed using xhtml and css. How can I integrate Wordpress for this site?

My site is hosted under Windows Platform. It support PHP, MySQL but do not support for mod_rewrite Apache module. I’ve been told by my host that I might need to transfer to Linux Platform.

Now what do I do? What is this mod_rewrite Apache module. What does it do? And what is my next plan? Do I move to a Linux platform as advised or can I still use Wordpress with the Windows platform?

Do not use Wordpress with Windows platform. Mod_Rewrite is required to make your website search engine optimized by converting the long dynamic URLs into meaningfull HTML URLs.