As you may know search engines love WordPress websites that are regularly updated. WordPress is a powerful CMS that is ideal for any small business website. It is also being increasingly used for e-commerce sites. Here are 5 reasons why you should use WordPress to create your website:
Learn A New Skill
WordPress is a skill that can be learnt quickly and easily. The basics of WordPress can be learnt in 1-2 hours. You could have a 5 page website up and running within one day.
To create a WordPress site you will use a theme. Themes are built using the programming language PHP. Themes are designed to be user-friendly and you are able to build a site without learning the language. This is done using widgets, menus and options on the dashboard.
This is a valuable skill to learn and potentially it could lead to a service you could offer as a virtual assistant.
Cheap but not FREE
When building a small business website you should not opt for a free option. This is your business and you want to be professional.
So, what costs are involved in creating a WordPress site?
You will need to buy a domain name. The cost depends on what extension you decide to go for e.g. a dot com or co.uk. It is often debated as to what are the best domain extensions to use. I believe it is the content of your site that matters. I have recently set up a site with a dot cc extension. It is ranking well due to the content and the Search Engine Optimization that has been performed on the site.
You will also need to pay for hosting. This is where all the website files will be kept. It is cheaper to host your website in the US.
WordPress is a CMS
WordPress is a content management system. This means it is designed to be extremely easy to update. Even if it was produced by a website designer you could easily update the pages yourself.
Being able to update your WordPress site will give you freedom from your web designer. You would need to specify at the start of the project that you want to be able to update the website yourself. This means you don't have to wait for the website designer to become available. It could take a couple of weeks to have updates done on your website whereas you could do it in a couple of minutes.
WordPress Themes
There are a great number of both free and premium WordPress themes that you can use for your website. The WordPress site offers a great number of free themes and it is perfectly fine to use a free theme. They are all checked by WordPress to ensure there is no malicious code in them and they are produced to a good standard.
Plugins for WordPress
The great thing about WordPress is that it allows developers to create plugins. Plugins offer added features to your website. These include plugins that will help with the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and allow you to easily add a contact form to your website. There are over 17,000 plugins at the time of writing and they do every function that you could possibly need for your WordPress website.
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