5: Adding and editing content

Already being familiar with WordPress, continuing to use the system to edit the website makes sense on many other levels too.

  • WordPress is the most popular ‘Open Source’ Content Management System (CMS) in the world. Open Source means the code is free to use and cannot be copyrighted by web designers/developers using it – so you remain free to use it even if you decide to use another web designer a few years down the line.
  • It offers a flexible and simple interface and numerous security and functionality plugins, which reduce development costs and deployment time.
  • WordPress has an incredibly flexible framework, which allows layouts to be modified and content updated much more quickly than bespoke programming solutions.
  • The interface is clear, intuitive and un-intimidating for non-technical users. It has many similarities to a word-processing app, with content contained in clear, modular blocks.
  • WordPress is being constantly developed, updated and improved.
  • WordPress is hugely expandable, should TWPF’s needs grow.
  • WordPress is search engine friendly.
  • And, should TWPF and I ever fall out, you won’t get locked into using a non-transferable, proprietary CMS that may very well be costly to tweak and update after initial development – and WordPress would be easy to seamlessly hand over to another web designer.

Design Example 5:
Local Business Network Group

I designed, built and update this site for a local business network group TWBN (of which I am a member).

There are many choices for network groups in the area, deluged by professional, corporate networking organisations (BNI and the like) – their websites are formulaic and impersonal.

TWBN wanted to create a logo and website that conveyed their warm, friendly and personal approach to networking. Not only does this design get that across, the system is easy for non-expert users to update – and it handles multimedia files easily, such as video, sound and animation as and when required.

With a lot of local networking competition, the site has been optimised to perform very well in search engine results too.

Click here to visit the TWBN site.