Do you feel a bit nervous when it comes to editing your website? The thought of all those directories and web languages – html, php, asp, css – makes you want to bury your head in the sand and either let the website sit there rotting away, looking unprofessional, or you end up calling a ‘web developer’ and paying someone to work on it for you.
Well, it doesn’t have to be this way. Compare the following two images, the first is one of the ways you would enter your server to retrieve files, which then need working on with code editor. The second photo is of the administration area of a WordPress website (a content management system) and it shows a different picture altogether.
Or, would you prefer ……..
Despite a glaring difference between the two styles of website construction the supposed winner out of the ‘two photo race’ above is not a clear one. A good web developer will weigh up your company’s online needs and be able to suggest a development method. You can even end up with a ‘static’ section of the website with highly technical coding achieving certain results and then, still part of your whole site, you have a CMS attached as well. This set up is common when lots of content is being published and the company staff can manage that themselves.
However, if you are a small company, requiring a simple online presence, and you have a member of the team who likes to play around with technology then setting up and managing a CMS like WordPress or Joomla yourselves is a realistic situation.