Why Use A WordPress Website Design?

The quick answer to that question is ‘why not?’

WordPress has helped to make the process of setting yourself up online, whether it be for an e-commerce store, company website or blog, much much easier. WordPress have thousands of templates some free, some not, which you can use and amend to suit your needs.

What are the benefits of this?

• By using a template you will save money. Amending a template to suit your needs is much faster and more efficient than having a bespoke website created from scratch.
• As it is a common format there is are a wealth of plugins and add-on’s designed specifically to work with this platform.
• Again, because it is a common format there is unlimited help available online if you are trying to make an amend yourself or if you accidentally change something you didn’t mean too.
• You can do it yourself. Whilst web developers may do it quicker, if you are a small business and don’t have the funds, then it is an avenue that is open to you.

Free doesn’t mean cheap.

Just because WordPress give away many of their web design templates it is important to remember it isn’t because they aren’t good enough to make people pay for them. Many professional web design companies implement the free WordPress website design templates as a starting point and then mould and amend them from there to suit their clients needs. As stipulated above, WordPress is a common format, which means that there are already social media plugins, SEO plugins, contact form plugins etc. available to you to implement.  The time and money this saves you, as a client, is unparalleled.

Web Design Company or Go It Alone?

When it comes to WordPress the answer to this question is either. WordPress is an incredibly accessible platform, which can be used by both developers and individuals alike. Again, as stipulated in the bullet points above, support and how to guides can be found easily online if you were to attempt it yourself. The only downside to this is time. A professional will be able to turn around a website or any changes relatively quickly whereas if you were trying to build it alone, the time would depend on your skill set and your ability to fit it in to your day.

From this brief article alone it is easy to see why WordPress is the way forward. All you have to do is choose the path.