I finished another track on Team Treehouse, specifically working with the PHP programming language. There is lots more for me to discover as this was just an introduction, but I decided to take a detour to explore their content concerning WordPress, a popular blogging and website creation tool. I've only just scratched the surface but I am already impressed and mostly convinced that I should just use WordPress for creating most simple websites. It's easy to use, customizable if you know how to code (and I do), powerful, and super easy for a non-tech savvy client to upkeep and add to once a website has been created. It's also free to use, so that's a good thing since my current budget is about $0.
WordPress comes with loads of free designs which save having to create them from scratch. Pick a theme, plunk in the content, tweak it by changing colors + pictures, and "Ta-da"a good looking functional website... at least that's what the process looks like from my current bedazzled perspective. I'm sure it can't be quite as easy as that, else nobody would hire freelancers to do the work for them.
If nothing else the friendly user interface is enough to keep me invested. Instead of having the client have to go into the HTML and CSS code (where it can be confusing and easy to break things) to add / change content WordPress gives them a nice text editor with a publish or edit button. Definitely a good feature for a church website or small business.
So it looks like I'm going to add WordPress to my digital tool belt. Yay WordPress!
Greg Out.
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